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A psalm, hymn, or passage from the Bible, arranged for chanting in church service.

A narrow passage or lane through chaparral or a forest.

ts employment, favars this; although it can not be dented that there are examples of its usage in an active sense. Sir W. Hamilton.

rk made across or in the ditch, to protect it from the enemy, or to serve as a covered passageway.

The act or manner of conducting measures or projects; management. The passage and whole carriage of this action. Shak. Carriage horse, a horse kept for drawing a carriage. -- Carriage porch (Arch.), a canopy or roofed pavilion covering the driveway at the entrance to any building. It is intended as a shelter for those…

s if by cutting; to cut out. "[Macbeth] with his brandished steel . . . carved out his passage." Shak. Fortunes were carved out of the property of the crown. Macaulay.

An opacity of the crystalline lens, or of its capsule, which prevents the passage of the rays of light and impairs or destroys the sight.

sed irritability of a nerve in the region of the cathode or negative electrode, on the passage of a current of electricity through it.

A natural or artificial purgation of any passage, as of the mouth, bowels, etc.

A way or road rasid above the natural level of the ground, serving as a dry passage over wet or marshy ground. But that broad causeway will direct your way. Dryden. The other way Satan went down The causey to Hell-gate. Milton.

of any kind; a defiance; specifically, a summons to fight a duel; also, the letter or message conveying the summons. A challenge to controversy. Goldsmith.

rbor, strait, etc., where the main current flows, or which affords the best and safest passage for vessels.

an's character for truth and veracity; to give one a bad character. This subterraneous passage is much mended since Seneca gave so bad a character of it. Addison.

traversed with iron-pointed spikes or spears, five or six feet long, used to defend a passage, stop a breach, or impede the advance of cavalry, etc. Obstructions of chain, boom, and cheval-de-frise. W. Irving.

A toll for passage through a forest. [Obs.] Cowell.

The dignity or system of knighthood; the spirit, usages, or manners of knighthood; the practice of knight-errantry. Dryden.

To obstruct by filling up or clogging any passage; to block up. Addison.

--called also reactance coil or reactor, these terms being now preferred in engineering usage.

A selection of passages, with notes, etc., to be used in acquiring a language; as, a Hebrew chrestomathy.

The pulpy mass of semi-digested food in the small intestines just after its passage from the stomach. It is separated in the intestines into chyle and excrement. See Chyle.