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ar finger, the little finger; so called because it can be readily introduced into the ear passage.

A way or opening for entrance into a place; a passage by which a place may by reached; a way of approach or of exit. "The avenues leading to the city by land." Macaulay. On every side were expanding new avenues of inquiry. Milman.

The upper part of a lode, or the roof of a horizontal underground passage.

a direction reverse to that in which it should travel; also, an explosion in the exhaust passages of such ah engine.

A post sunk in the ground to receive the bars closing a passage into a field.

To fortify or close with a barricade or with barricades; to stop up, as a passage; to obstruct; as, the workmen barricaded the streets of Paris. The further end whereof [a bridge] was barricaded with barrels. Hakluyt.

A carpentry obstruction, stockade, or other obstacle made in a passage in order to stop an enemy.

A passage into a field or yard, closed by bars made to take out of the posts.

A narrow passage or strait; as, the Great Belt and the Lesser Belt, leading to the Baltic Sea.

A kind of divination, performed by selecting passages of Scripture at hazard, and drawing from them indications concerning future events.

sus, Dermaleichus and allies) parasitic upon birds. The species are numerous. -- Bird of passage, a migratory bird. -- Bird spider (Zoöl.), a very large South American spider (Mygale avicularia). It is said sometimes to capture and kill small birds. -- Bird tick (Zoöl.), a dipterous insect parasitic upon birds (genu…

Twice; -- a word showing that something is, or is to be, repeated; as a passage of music, or an item in accounts.

Having no openings for light or passage; as, a blind wall; open only at one end; as, a blind alley; a blind gut.

To obstruct so as to prevent passage or progress; to prevent passage from, through, or into, by obstructing the way; -- used both of persons and things; -- often followed by up; as, to block up a road or harbor. With moles . . . would block the port. Rowe. A city . . . besieged and blocked about. Milton.…

An obstruction to passage. To raise a blockade. See under Raise.

or to appear both to favor and to oppose. -- To blow off, to let steam escape through a passage provided for the purpose; as, the engine or steamer is blowing off. -- To blow out. (a) To be driven out by the expansive force of a gas or vapor; as, a steam cock or valve sometimes blows out. (b) To talk violently or ab…

h some epithet descriptive of its use or mode of propulsion; as, pilot boat, packet boat, passage boat, advice boat, etc. The term is sometimes applied to steam vessels, even of the largest class; as, the Cunard boats.

To enter the name of (any one) in a book for the purpose of securing a passage, conveyance, or seat; as, to be booked for Southampton; to book a seat in a theater.

sters passengers, baggage, etc., for conveyance, as by railway or steamship, or who sells passage tickets at a booking office.

An office where passage tickets are sold. [Eng.]