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nce, the framework forming the body of a dirigible balloon, and containing the machinery, passengers, etc.

A railway passenger car made so as to facilitate seeing the scenery en route; a car open, or with glass sides, or with a kind of open balcony at the rear.

A reason or excuse; a motive; a persuasion. Whose manner was, all passengers to stay, And entertain with her occasions sly. Spenser. On occasion, in case of need; in necessity; as convenience requires; occasionally. "That we might have intelligence from him on occasion," De Foe.

g seats for many people; especially, one with seats running lengthwise, used in conveying passengers short distances.

One who, or that which, is without; hence, an outside passenger, as distinguished from one who is inside. See Inside, n. 3. [Colloq. Eng.]

t to convey dispatches or mails; hence, a vessel employed in conveying dispatches, mails, passengers, and goods, and having fixed days of sailing; a mail boat. Packet boat, ship, or vessel. See Packet, n., 2. -- Packet day, the day for mailing letters to go by packet; or the sailing day. -- Packet note or post. See u…

t that is furnished with a pad for carrying burdens instead of with a howdah for carrying passengers.

A Bengalese four-oared boat for passengers. [Written also panshway and paunchwas.] Malcom.

ct of Parliament, railway companies are required to run for the conveyance of third-class passengers at a reduced rate. [Eng.]

hawk taken on its passage or migration. -- Passage money, money paid for conveyance of a passenger, -- usually for carrying passengers by water.

A passenger; a bird or boat of passage. [Obs.] Ld. Berners.

One who passes; a passenger.

A toll or tax paid by passengers, entitling them to safe- conduct and protection. [Obs.] Spelman.

ertificate, given after compliance with quarantine regulations, permitting a ship to land passengers and crew; -- a term used particularly in the south of Europe.

A clerk on steam passenger vessels whose duty it is to keep the accounts of the vessels, such as the receipt of freight, tickets, etc.

riction against each other. rumble seat, a seat in the rear of an automobile, outside the passenger cabin, which folds out from the body

oat. [Obs.] So we took a scout, very much pleased with the manner and conversation of the passengers. Pepys.

To cause to experience shipwreck, as sailors or passengers. Hence, to cause to suffer some disaster or loss; to destroy or ruin, as if by shipwreck; to wreck; as, to shipwreck a business. Addison.

A walk for foot passengers at the side of a street or road; a foot pavement. [U.S.]

a substitute for cigars. -- Smoking car, a railway car carriage reserved for the use of passengers who smoke tobacco.