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rel traversed with iron-pointed spikes or spears, five or six feet long, used to defend a passage, stop a breach, or impede the advance of cavalry, etc. Obstructions of chain, boom, and cheval-de-frise. W. Irving.

A toll for passage through a forest. [Obs.] Cowell.

To obstruct by filling up or clogging any passage; to block up. Addison.

A selection of passages, with notes, etc., to be used in acquiring a language; as, a Hebrew chrestomathy.

The pulpy mass of semi-digested food in the small intestines just after its passage from the stomach. It is separated in the intestines into chyle and excrement. See Chyle.

Small, generally microscopic, vibrating appendages lining certain organs, as the air passages of the higher animals, and in the lower animals often covering also the whole or a part of the exterior. They are also found on some vegetable organisms. In the Infusoria, and many larval forms, they are locomotive organs.…

g of two portions unequally exposed to the heat of the fire, and with connecting pipes or passages, through which the fluid rises from the overheated portion, and descends from the relatively colder, maintaining a circulation.

The act of citing a passage from a book, or from another person, in his own words; also, the passage or words quoted; quotation. This horse load of citations and fathers. Milton.

To quote; to repeat, as a passage from a book, or the words of another. The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose. Shak.

To arrange in classes; to classify or refer to some class; as, to class words or passages.

aste room. It includes the space caused by the piston's clearance and the space in ports, passageways, etc. Its volume is often expressed as a certain proportion of the volume swept by the piston in a single stroke.

A covered passage or ambulatory on one side of a court; (pl.) the series of such passages on the different sides of any court, esp. that of a monastery or a college. But let my due feet never fail To walk the studious cloister's pale. Milton.

A narrow passage leading from a street to a court, and the houses within. [Eng.] Halliwell

A short passage connecting two sections, but not forming part of either; a short coda.

tention of some one of the hollow viscera. Hepatic colic, the severe pain produced by the passage of a gallstone from the liver or gall bladder through the bile duct. -- Intestinal colic, or Ordinary colic, pain due to distention of the intestines by gas. -- Lead colic, Painter's colic, a violent form of intestinal c…

Passages selected from various authors, usually for purposes of instruction; miscellany; anthology.

A compiler of books; one who collects scattered passages and puts them together in one book. Volumes without the collector's own reflections. Addison.

of the solid parts of the animal system with copious excretions of liquids by one or more passages. [Obs.]

Vocal music colored, as it were, by florid ornaments, runs, or rapid passages.

n the works of an author, with a view to illustrate his meaning, or to explain particular passages; to write annotations; -- often followed by on or upon. A physician to comment on your malady. Shak. Critics . . . proceed to comment on him. Dryden. I must translate and comment. Pope.