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A coach that runs regularly from one stage, station, or place to another, for the conveyance of passengers.

One who drives a stagecoach.

The two back seats facing one another on the outside of a stagecoach. [Eng.] Goldsmith. Basket fish (Zoöl.), an ophiuran of the genus Astrophyton, having the arms much branched. See Astrophyton. -- Basket hilt, a hilt with a covering wrought like basketwork to protect the hand. Hudibras. Hence, Baskethilted, a. -- Ba…

A place for baggage at either end of an old-fashioned stagecoach.

e vehicle in which, or means by which, anything is carried from one place to another; as, stagecoaches, omnibuses, etc., are conveyances; a canal or aqueduct is a conveyance for water. There pipes and these conveyances of our blood. Shak.

A four-wheeled public stagecoach, used in France.

A kind of stagecoach. "The Derby dilly." J. H. Frere.

ed or inclosed in anything; contained; interior; internal; as, the inside passengers of a stagecoach; inside decoration. Kissing with inside lip. Shak.

A large vehicle running from station to station for the accomodation of the public; a stagecoach; an omnibus. "A parcel sent you by the stage." Cowper. I went in the sixpenny stage. Swift.

The business of running stagecoaches; also, the act of journeying in stagecoaches.