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y; excessively; surpassingly; as, passing fair; passing strange. "You apprehend passing shrewdly." Shak.

A feast of the Jews, instituted to commemorate 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.

un. Thus Romanus, a Roman, and Troas, a woman of Troy, are patrial nouns, or patrials. Andrews.

The jurisdiction of a patriarch; patriarchship. Brerewood.

Hence, figuratively: To compensate justly; to requite according to merit; to reward; to punish; to retort or retaliate upon. For which, or pay me quickly, or I'll pay you. B. Jonson.

One who pays; one who compensates, rewards, or requites; specifically, an officer or agent of a government, a corporation, or an employer, whose duty it is to pay salaries, wages, etc., and keep account of the same.

the thing given in discharge of a debt, or an obligation, or in fulfillment of a promise; reward; recompense; requital; return. Shak.

To make strokes with the beak, or with a pointed instrument. Carew.

Relating to money; monetary; as, a pecuniary penalty; a pecuniary reward. Burke.

A step; a degree; esp. in the slang phrase "To take one down peg." To screw papal authority to the highest peg. Barrow. And took your grandess down a peg. Hudibras. Peg ladder, a ladder with but one standard, into which cross pieces are inserted. -- Peg tankard, an ancient tankard marked with pegs, so as divide the li…

hands of five persons; five joint rulers. P. Fletcher. "The pentarchy of the senses." A. Brewer.

vicarage is endowed. Blackstone. -- Perpetual motion. See under Motion. -- Perpetual screw. See Endless screw, under Screw.

The earliest Syriac version of the Old Testament, translated from Hebrew; also, the incomplete Syriac version of the New Testament. [Written also peschito.]

The art or process of making photo-electrotypes. Sir D. Brewster.

of light and certain chemicals, so that from the plate impressions may be taken. Sir D. Brewster.

A merry-andrew; a buffoon. [Obs.] Addison.

et piling. See Sheet piling, under Piling. -- Pneumatic pile. See under Pneumatic. -- Screw pile, one with a screw at the lower end, and sunk by rotation aided by pressure.

Having a pile or point; pointed. [Obs.] "Magus threw a spear well piled." Chapman.

To journey; to wander; to ramble. [R.] Grew. Carlyle.

rack. -- Pin wheel. (a) A contrate wheel in which the cogs are cylindrical pins. (b) (Fireworks) A small coil which revolves on a common pin and makes a wheel of yellow or colored fire.