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rs passengers, baggage, etc., for conveyance, as by railway or steamship, or who sells passage tickets at a booking office.

An office where passage tickets are sold. [Eng.]

Something placed in a book to guide in finding a particular page or passage; also, a label in a book to designate the owner; a bookplate.

together, extended across a river or the mouth of a harbor, to obstruct navigation or passage.

owerful jaws, by means whereof the insect can bore, as with a centerbit, a cylindrical passage through the most solid wood. T. W. Harris.

ngle person. -- Rotten borough, a name given to any borough which, at the time of the passage of the Reform Bill of 1832, contained but few voters, yet retained the privilege of sending a member to Parliament.

An ancient species of divination by means of plants, esp. sage and fig leaves.

A sort of cake or sausage, made of the salted roes of the mullet, much used on the coast of the Mediterranean as an incentive to drink.

Having the shape of a sausage. Henslow.

A warrant from the government, granting a privilege, title, or dignity. [French usage].

erected over a river or other water course, or over a chasm, railroad, etc., to make a passageway from one bank to the other.

To wash (clothes) in lye or suds, or, in later usage, by beating them on stones in running water.

buckler. See Christ's thorn. -- Riding buckler (Naut.), a buckler with a hole for the passage of a cable.

The religion based upon the doctrine originally taught by the Hindoo sage Gautama Siddartha, surnamed Buddha, "the awakened or enlightened," in the sixth century b.c., and adopted as a religion by the greater part of the inhabitants of Central and Eastern Asia and the Indian Islands. Buddha's teaching is believed to ha…

The color to buff; a light yellow, shading toward pink, gray, or brown. A visage rough, Deformed, unfeatured, and a skin of buff. Dryden.

A by-passage, for a pipe, or other channel, to divert circulation from the usual course.

A message sent by a submarine telegraphic cable.

y part of the body, but most frequent in the organs that act as reservoirs, and in the passages connected with them; as, biliary calculi; urinary calculi, etc.

Hollow; affording a passage through its interior length for wire, thread, etc.; as, a cannulated (suture) needle. [Written also canulated.]

A piece or pessage, whether vocal or instrumental, pecuilarly adapted to singing; -- sometimes called cantilena.