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Having no pass; impassable. Cowley.

One who passes for a degree, without honors. See Classman, 2. [Eng. Univ.]

e the sparing of the Hebrews in Egypt, when God, smiting the firstborn of the Egyptians, passed over the houses of the Israelites which were marked with the blood of a lamb.

Permission to pass; a document given by the competent officer of a state, permitting the person therein named to pass or travel from place to place, without molestation, by land or by water. Caution in granting passports to Ireland. Clarendon.

A division or part; a canto; as, the passus of Piers Plowman. See 2d Fit.

A word to be given before a person is allowed to pass; a watchword; a countersign. Macaulay.

See Paspy. Shak.

One of a body of believers in the early church who denied the independent preëxistent personality of Christ, and who, accordingly, held that the Father suffered in the Son; a monarchian. -- Pa`tri*pas"sian*ism, n.

Any herb of the cruciferous genus Lepidium, especially the garden peppergrass, or garden cress, Lepidium sativum; -- called also pepperwort. All the species have a pungent flavor.

The lead-colored agate; -- so called in reference to its color.

A fibrous product of two Brazilian palm trees (Attalea funifera and Leopoldinia Piassaba), -- used in making brooms, and for other purposes. Called also piaçaba and piasaba.

The albuminous material composing the body of a cytode.

A plume or collection of ornamental feathers.

One who prepares or deals in ornamental plumes or feathers.

A breviary; a prayer book. [Written variously portace, portasse, portesse, portise, porthose, portos, portus, portuse, etc.] [Obs.] Spenser. Camden. By God and by this porthors I you swear. Chaucer.

Potassium oxide. [Obs.]

A yellowish brown substance obtained by heating potassium in ammonia.

Pertaining to, or containing, potassium.

An Alkali element, occurring abundantly but always combined, as in the chloride, sulphate, carbonate, or silicate, in the minerals sylvite, kainite, orthoclase, muscovite, etc. Atomic weight 39.0. Symbol K (Kalium).

The radical KO, derived from, and supposed to exist in, potassium hydroxide and other compounds.