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ass card at the same time. -- Prismatic spectrum (Opt.), the spectrum produced by the passage of light through a prism.

Nuisance. -- Private soldier. See Private, n., 5. -- Private way, a right of private passage over another man's ground. Kent.

Course; passage; lapse or process of time. I hope, in a short progression, you will be wholly immerged in the delices and joys of religion. Evelyn.

the side of a vacuum pan, for testing the consistency of the sirup. -- Proof text, a passage of Scripture used to prove a doctrine. proof coin or proof, a coin which has been specially struck, to produce the finest specimen of its type.

An intestine; especially, an intestine stuffed with meat, etc.; a sausage. Shak.

in the time of Queen Elizabeth and the first two Stuarts, opposed traditional and formal usages, and advocated simpler forms of faith and worship than those established by law; -- originally, a term of reproach. The Puritans formed the bulk of the early population of New England.

The passage between the iter and optocoele in the brain. B. G. Wilder.

olded or doubled twice. Quadruplex system (Electric Telegraph), a system by which four messages, two in each direction, may be sent simultaneously over the wire.

The encampment on one of the principal passages round a place besieged, to prevent relief and intercept convoys.

, a book of the size of the fourth of sheet of printing paper; a size leaves; in present usage, a book of a square or nearly square form, and usually of large size.

A word occurring in a corrupt passage of Bacon's Essays, and probably meaning, to stir, to move.

t.), two inverted commas placed at the beginning, and two apostrophes at the end, of a passage quoted from an author in his own words.

To cite, as a passage from some author; to name, repeat, or adduce, as a passage from an author or speaker, by way of authority or illustration; as, to quote a passage from Homer.

A strong or rapid current of water, or the channel or passage for such a current; a powerful current or heavy sea, sometimes produced by the meeting of two tides; as, the Portland Race; the Race of Alderney.

A message transmitted by radiotelegraph.

Slackening; -- a direction to perform a passage with a gradual decrease in time and force; ritardando.

ting or print; to be expressed by, or consist of, certain words or characters; as, the passage reads thus in the early manuscripts.

The way in which anything reads; force of a word or passage presented by a documentary authority; lection; version.

To bevel out, as the mouth of a hole in wood or metal; in modern usage, to enlarge or dress out, as a hole, with a reamer.

ke; to accept; as, to receive money offered in payment of a debt; to receive a gift, a message, or a letter. Receyven all in gree that God us sent. Chaucer.