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A passenger; a bird or boat of passage. [Obs.] Ld. Berners.

One who passes; a passenger.

A toll or tax paid by passengers, entitling them to safe- conduct and protection. [Obs.] Spelman.

A foot soldier; a policeman; also, an office attendant; a messenger. [India]

A messenger who goes from station; an express; especially, one who is employed by the government to carry letters and parcels regularly from one place to another; a letter carrier; a postman. In certain places there be always fresh posts, to carry that further which is brought unto them by the other. Abp. Abbot. I fear…

ificate, given after compliance with quarantine regulations, permitting a ship to land passengers and crew; -- a term used particularly in the south of Europe.

A clerk on steam passenger vessels whose duty it is to keep the accounts of the vessels, such as the receipt of freight, tickets, etc.

The king's messenger; a state messenger. One pursuivant who attempted to execute a warrant there was murdered. Macaulay.

house, presence, company, and the like; as, to receive a lodger, visitor, ambassador, messenger, etc. They kindled a fire, and received us every one. Acts xxviii. 2.

s what has been discovered by a person sent to examine, explore, or investigate; as, a messenger reports to his employer what he has seen or ascertained; the committee reported progress. There is no man that may reporten all. Chaucer.

tion against each other. rumble seat, a seat in the rear of an automobile, outside the passenger cabin, which folds out from the body

A messenger. Swift.

the air; to glide through the air without apparent exertion, as a bird. As is a winged messenger of heaven, . . . When he bestrides the lazy pacing clouds, And sails upon the bosom of the air. Shak.

obs. p. p. of Senge, to singe. Chaucer.

. [Obs.] So we took a scout, very much pleased with the manner and conversation of the passengers. Pepys.

o cause to go in any manner; to dispatch; to commission or direct to go; as, to send a messenger. I have not sent these prophets, yet they ran. Jer. xxiii. 21. I proceeded forth and came from God; neither came I of myself, but he sent me. John viii. 42. Servants, sent on messages, stay out somewhat longer than the mess…

of Senge, to singe. Chaucer.

To cause to experience shipwreck, as sailors or passengers. Hence, to cause to suffer some disaster or loss; to destroy or ruin, as if by shipwreck; to wreck; as, to shipwreck a business. Addison.

A walk for foot passengers at the side of a street or road; a foot pavement. [U.S.]

substitute for cigars. -- Smoking car, a railway car carriage reserved for the use of passengers who smoke tobacco.