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A kind of light passenger vehicle, carrying four persons.

To give a wrong direction to; as, to misdirect a passenger, or a letter; to misdirect one's energies. Shenstone.

That with which a messenger or agent is charged; an errand; business or duty on which one is sent; a commission. How to begin, how to accomplish best His end of being on earth, and mission high. Milton.

One who is sent; a messenger. [Obs.] Shak.

number and a fraction taken together. -- Mixed train, a railway train containing both passenger and freight cars. -- Mixed voices (Mus.), voices of both males and females united in the same performance.

run and be steered on a street or roadway; esp., an automobile specially designed for passengers.

, the framework forming the body of a dirigible balloon, and containing the machinery, passengers, etc.

A number of rope-yarns wound together, used to secure a cable to the messenger.

One who announces; a messenger; a nuncio. [Obs.] Hoole.

A messenger. [Obs.] Shak.

A messenger.

A railway passenger car made so as to facilitate seeing the scenery en route; a car open, or with glass sides, or with a kind of open balcony at the rear.

A reason or excuse; a motive; a persuasion. Whose manner was, all passengers to stay, And entertain with her occasions sly. Spenser. On occasion, in case of need; in necessity; as convenience requires; occasionally. "That we might have intelligence from him on occasion," De Foe.

eats for many people; especially, one with seats running lengthwise, used in conveying passengers short distances.

One who, or that which, is without; hence, an outside passenger, as distinguished from one who is inside. See Inside, n. 3. [Colloq. Eng.]

o convey dispatches or mails; hence, a vessel employed in conveying dispatches, mails, passengers, and goods, and having fixed days of sailing; a mail boat. Packet boat, ship, or vessel. See Packet, n., 2. -- Packet day, the day for mailing letters to go by packet; or the sailing day. -- Packet note or post. See unde…

hat is furnished with a pad for carrying burdens instead of with a howdah for carrying passengers.

A Bengalese four-oared boat for passengers. [Written also panshway and paunchwas.] Malcom.

of Parliament, railway companies are required to run for the conveyance of third-class passengers at a reduced rate. [Eng.]

k taken on its passage or migration. -- Passage money, money paid for conveyance of a passenger, -- usually for carrying passengers by water.