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Means of communicating; means of passing from place to place; a connecting passage; connection. The Euxine Sea is conveniently situated for trade, by the communication it has both with Asia and Europe. Arbuthnot.

A pipe, canal, channel, or passage for conveying water or fluid. All the conduits of my blood froze up. Shak. This is the fountain of all those bitter waters, of which, through a hundred different conduits, we have drunk. Burke.

To stop (a channel) by filling it, and preventing passage through it; as, to constipate the capillary vessels.

A gallery or passageway leading to several apartments of a house.

To expel air, or obstructing or irritating matter, from the lungs or air passages, in a noisy and violent manner.

ket, showing the holder to be entitled to some specified accomodation or service, as to a passage over a designated line of travel, a particular seat in a theater, or the like.

A passage cut through the glacis to facilitate sallies by the besieged. Wilhelm.

The act of moving from one point to another; progress; passage. And when we had finished our course from Tyre, we came to Ptolemais. Acts xxi. 7.

Any bend, turn, or winding, as of a passage. So many turning cranks these have, so many crooks. Spenser.

Any turn or winding. The passages of alleys, creeks, and narrow lands. Shak.

A gradual increase in the strength and fullness of tone with which a passage is performed.

p., such an affection when associated with the development of a false membrane in the air passages (also called membranous croup). See False croup, under False, and Diphtheria.

A passage with only one outlet, as a street closed at one end; a blind alley; hence, a trap.

The attainment of the highest point of altitude reached by a heavently body; passage across the meridian; transit.

er; as, to cut an army to pieces. -- To cut a play (Drama), to shorten it by leaving out passages, to adapt it for the stage. -- To cut rates (Railroads, etc.), to reduce the charges for transportation below the rates established between competing lines. -- To cut short, to arrest or check abruptly; to bring to a su…

That which cuts off or shortens, as a nearer passage or road.

A dark shade or dark passage in a painting, engraving, or the like; as, the light and darks are well contrasted. The lights may serve for a repose to the darks, and the darks to the lights. Dryden.

urs of life of one who dies by sickness or the like; the last sickness. That often-quoted passage from Lord Hervey in which the Queen's deathbed is described. Thackeray.

A descending surface; a sloping place. Commodious declivities and channels for the passage of the waters. Derham.

Any narrow passage or gorge in which troops can march only in a file, or with a narrow front; a long, narrow pass between hills, rocks, etc.