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djunct notes (Mus.), short notes between those essential to the harmony; auxiliary notes; passing notes.

us whether thou be the Christ. Matt. xxvi. 63. The commissioners adjured them not to let pass so favorable an opportunity of securing their liberties. Marshall.

sel; advise; information. [Archaic] And mused awhile, waking advisement takes of what had passed in sleep. Daniel.

globe or cylinder) with one or more projecting bent tubes, through which steam is made to pass from the vessel, causing it to revolve. [Written also eolipile.]

An aëroplane or airship designed to carry passengers.

To pass the summer in a state of torpor. [Spelt also estivate.]

To influence or move, as the feelings or passions; to touch. A consideration of the rationale of our passions seems to me very necessary for all who would affect them upon solid and pure principles.

Passion; violent emotion. [Obs.] Most wretched man, That to affections does the bridle lend. Spenser.

Full of passion or emotion; earnest. [Obs.] -- Af*fec"tu*ous*ly, adv. [Obs.] Fabyan.

Affright; the state of being frightened; sudden fear or alarm. [Archaic] Passionate words or blows . . . fill the child's mind with terror and affrightment. Locke.

Inflames; glowing with light or passion; ablaze. G. Eliot.

Moving; passing from place to place; in general circulation; as, a rumor is afloat.

, to oppress or injure in one's rights; to bear heavily upon; -- now commonly used in the passive TO be aggrieved. Aggrieved by oppression and extortion. Macaulay.

r excite; to perturb; as, he was greatly agitated. The mind of man is agitated by various passions. Johnson.

Not forming an angle. Agonic line (Physics), an imaginary line on the earth's surface passing through those places where the magnetic needle points to the true north; the line of no magnetic variation. There is one such line in the Western hemisphere, and another in the Eastern hemisphere.

To surpass; to get the better of. [Colloq.]

A pipe for the passage of air; esp. a ventilating pipe.

erent parts. of the bodies of birds, which are filled with air and connected with the air passages of the lungs; an air cell.

A passage, usually vertical, for admitting fresh air into a mine or a tunnel.

Also (perhaps from confusion with alley), a passage into which the pews of a church open.