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To remove obstructions or impediments in; to clear from anything that hinders the passage of fluids; as, to deobstruct the pores or lacteals. Arbuthnot.

To free from obstructions; to clear a passage through. [Obs.] Boyle.

Removal of whatever stops up the passages. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

The series of changes which animal and vegetable organisms undergo in their passage from the embryonic state to maturity, from a lower to a higher state of organization.

The passage of the corpuscular elements of the blood from the blood vessels into the surrounding tissues, without rupture of the walls of the blood vessels.

Affording a free passage to heat; as, diathermic substances. Melloni.

To separate (the food) in its passage through the alimentary canal into the nutritive and nonnutritive elements; to prepare, by the action of the digestive juices, for conversion into blood; to convert into chyme.

A very dangerous contagious disease in which the air passages, and especially the throat, become coated with a false membrane, produced by the solidification of an inflammatory exudation. Cf. Group.

Uninteresting. [Obs.] "Disinteresting passages." Bp. Warburton.

To wrest from the true meaning; to pervert; as, to distort passages of Scripture, or their meaning.

Passage; means of approach or access. I am the door; by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved. John x. 9.

The passage of a door; entrance way into a house or a room.

A passage driven or cut between shaft and shaft; a driftway; a small subterranean gallery; an adit or tunnel.

A passage or way along or through which a carriage may be driven.

The act of expiring; passage from life to death; loss of life.

Of, Pertaining to, or produced by, magnetism which is developed by the passage of an electric current. Electro-magnetic engine, an engine in which the motive force is electro-magnetism. -- Electro-magnetic theory of light (Physics), a theory of light which makes it consist in the rapid alternation of transient electri…

The motion of electricity or its passage from one metal to another in a voltaic circuit; mechanical action produced by means of electricity.

The writer, or one of the writers, of the passages of the Old Testament, notably those of Elohim instead of Jehovah, as the name of the Supreme Being; -- distinguished from Jehovist. S. Davidson.

Relating to Elohim as a name of God; -- said of passages in the Old Testament.

What is voided by the urinary passages; urine.