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A footpath; a beaten track; any path or course. Also used figuratively. Shak. In the way of righteousness is life; and in the pathway thereof is no death. Prov. xii. 28. We tread the pathway arm in arm. Sir W. Scott.

A kind of coarse bagging, -- used for coal sacks. Weale.

A road or way consisting of one or more parallel series of iron or steel rails, patterned and adjusted to be tracks for the wheels of vehicles, and suitably supported on a bed or substructure.

A road; especially, the part traveled by carriages. Shak.

Formerly, a light, low, four-wheeled carriage, with standing top, open at the sides, but having waterproof curtains which could be let down when occasion required; now, a somewhat similar, but heavier, carriage, inclosed, except in front, and having a door at each side.

A place prepared for rolling logs into a stream.

One who, or that which, flees from danger, duty, restraint, etc.; a fugitive. Thou runaway, thou coward, art thou fled Shak.

The channel of a stream.

An inclined railway running into the water with a cradelike car on which a vessel may be drawn out on land, as for repairs.

Toward the side; sidewise. A second refraction made sideways. Sir I. Newton. His beard, a good palm's length, at least, . . . Shot sideways, like a swallow's wings. Longfellow.

A way along which something slides.

An artificial channel into which water is let by a sluice; specifically, a trough constructed over the bed of a stream, so that logs, lumber, or rubbish can be floated down to some convenient place of delivery.

A sluiceway or passage for superfluous water in a reservoir, to prevent too great pressure on the dam.

A bridle path. [R.]

A flight of stairs or steps; a staircase. "A rude and narrow stairway." Moore.

A rate of motion through the water sufficient to render a vessel governable by the helm.

The movement of a ship backward, or with her stern foremost.

One who conceals himself board of a vessel about to leave port, or on a railway train, in order to obtain a free passage.

delay. He took the damsel by the hand, and said unto her, Talitha cumi. . . . And straightway the damsel arose. Mark v. 41,42.

Straightway. [Obs.]