Search the Dictionary

See Molasses.

A soft Tertiary sandstone; -- applied to a rock occurring in Switzerland. See Chart of Geology.

The thick, brown or dark colored, viscid, uncrystallizable sirup which drains from sugar, in the process of manufacture; any thick, viscid, sweet sirup made from vegetable juice or sap, as of the sorghum or maple. See Treacle.

Overstocked, or overgrown, or covered, with grass. [Obs.] Spenser.

An under bed or mattress of straw. [Written also palliasse.]

See Paillasse.

That by which one can pass anywhere; a safe-conduct. [Obs.] Dryden.

Past; gone by; hence, past one's prime; worn; faded; as, a passée belle. Ld. Lytton.

A ridge or projecting edge on a shoulder piece to turn the blow of a lance or other weapon from the joint of the armor.

Lace, gimp, braid etc., sewed on a garment. Sir W. Scott.

Beaded embroidery for women's dresses.

A passer or passer-by; a wayfarer. Shak.

A unit of measurement of the passenger transportation performed by a railroad during a given period, usually a year, the total of which consists of the sum of the miles traversed by all the passengers on the road in the period in question.

Passenger miles collectively; the total number of miles traveled by passengers on a railroad during a given period.

One who passes; a passenger.

One who goes by; a passer.

An order, or suborder, of birds, including more that half of all the known species. It embraces all singing birds (Oscines), together with many other small perching birds.

Like or belonging to the Passeres.

Of or pertaining to the Passeres. The columbine, gallinaceous, and passerine tribes people the fruit trees. Sydney Smith.

A carnivore (Viverricula Mallaccensis) allied to the civet but smaller, native of China and the East Indies. It furnishes a perfume resembling that of the civet, which is highly prized by the Javanese. Called also Malacca weasel, and lesser civet.