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Something placed in a book to guide in finding a particular page or passage; also, a label in a book to designate the owner; a bookplate.

und together, extended across a river or the mouth of a harbor, to obstruct navigation or passage.

y powerful jaws, by means whereof the insect can bore, as with a centerbit, a cylindrical passage through the most solid wood. T. W. Harris.

single person. -- Rotten borough, a name given to any borough which, at the time of the passage of the Reform Bill of 1832, contained but few voters, yet retained the privilege of sending a member to Parliament.

n, erected over a river or other water course, or over a chasm, railroad, etc., to make a passageway from one bank to the other.

a buckler. See Christ's thorn. -- Riding buckler (Naut.), a buckler with a hole for the passage of a cable.

A by-passage, for a pipe, or other channel, to divert circulation from the usual course.

any part of the body, but most frequent in the organs that act as reservoirs, and in the passages connected with them; as, biliary calculi; urinary calculi, etc.

Hollow; affording a passage through its interior length for wire, thread, etc.; as, a cannulated (suture) needle. [Written also canulated.]

A psalm, hymn, or passage from the Bible, arranged for chanting in church service.

A narrow passage or lane through chaparral or a forest.

work made across or in the ditch, to protect it from the enemy, or to serve as a covered passageway.

The act or manner of conducting measures or projects; management. The passage and whole carriage of this action. Shak. Carriage horse, a horse kept for drawing a carriage. -- Carriage porch (Arch.), a canopy or roofed pavilion covering the driveway at the entrance to any building. It is intended as a shelter for those…

r as if by cutting; to cut out. "[Macbeth] with his brandished steel . . . carved out his passage." Shak. Fortunes were carved out of the property of the crown. Macaulay.

An opacity of the crystalline lens, or of its capsule, which prevents the passage of the rays of light and impairs or destroys the sight.

reased irritability of a nerve in the region of the cathode or negative electrode, on the passage of a current of electricity through it.

A natural or artificial purgation of any passage, as of the mouth, bowels, etc.

A way or road rasid above the natural level of the ground, serving as a dry passage over wet or marshy ground. But that broad causeway will direct your way. Dryden. The other way Satan went down The causey to Hell-gate. Milton.

harbor, strait, etc., where the main current flows, or which affords the best and safest passage for vessels.

a man's character for truth and veracity; to give one a bad character. This subterraneous passage is much mended since Seneca gave so bad a character of it. Addison.