PASSE PART OUT

In Engraving, a plate or wood block, Whose centre part is entirely cut out round the outer part, whereof a border or ornamental design is engraved, Hiving as a frame to what may he placed in the centre. seres, or Pa erines. (LuL pa er, a The name given by Linnecus and Cuvier to the typical order of birds, including those which neither manifest the violence of birds of prey, nor have the fixed regimen of the terrestrial birds, but which feed on insects, fruit, or grain, according to the llendem i or strength of their beak; some, with sharp and toothed mandibles, pursue and feed on •mail birds. All the Pa erines have short and slender legs, with three toes before and one behind; the two external toes being united by a very short membrane. They form the most extensive and varied order of birds, and are the least readily recognisable by distinctive characters common to the whole group. Their feet, being more especially adapted to lie labours of nidilication, have neither the webbed Mriirtuo,,t those of the swimmers, nor the robust strength and destructive talons which characterize the feet of the bird of rapine, nor yet the extended toes which enable the leader to walk safely over marshy soils, and tread lightly on ■j leaves of aquatic plants; but the toes are slender, flexible, and moderately elongated, with long, pointed, and slightly curved claws. The Pa erines in general have the females smaller and lees brilliant in their plumage than the males; they always live in pairs, build in trees, and display the greatest art in the construction of their nests. The young are excluded in a blind and naked state, and wholly depend for subsistence, during a certain period, on parental care. The brain arrives In this order at its greatest proportional size; the organ of voice here attains its utmost complexity; and all the chnraciif the bird, as power of flight, melody of voice, and beauty of plumage, are enjoyed in the highest perfection r other of the groups of this extensive and varied order. The beak of the Pa erines varies in form according to the nature of their food, which may be small or young birds, carrion, insects, fruit, seeds, vegetable juices, or of a mixed kind. The modifications of the rostrum have therefore nfliirdeil convenient characters for the tribes or subdivisions at* the order: these are termed, 1. Den tiros tres; 2. Coniros- /invirostres;4.Fi irostres. See those words. PASSIFLORACEjE. (Pa iflora, or Flos pa ion is, one of the genera.) A natural order of twining plants with very showy dowers, furnished with numerous rays of brilliant colours between the corolla and the stamens. They chiefly Inhabit the hotter parts of the world, nnd bear a fruit not unlike that of the gourd, to which natural order they are re-.nted. Independently of the beauty of their flowers, some yield fruits, eaten under the name of granadilla and water lemon; and others have a hard, black wood, not unlike •bony [s. 919]