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An obsolete form of pa enger. pa ager2+ (pas'ā-jer), n. Same as pa agère. pa agèret (pa-sa-zhar'), n. [ Truth is our only armor in all pa ages of life and death. pa ageway (pas'aj-wa), n. Tennyson, Lance lot and Elaine. Emerson, Conduct of Life. 9. A part of a writing or speech concerning a particular occurrence, matter, or point; a paragraph or clause. (a) A verse, chapter, section, or other division or part of a book or text: as, a pa age of Scripture; select pa ages from the poets. Every particular Master in this Art has his favorite Pas sages in an Author. Add is on , Spectator, No. 262. Hard at it, with concordance and examination of parallel pa ages, he goes early next morning. pa enger.] 1. A pa age; a road, avenue, path, or way affording means of communication; avenue of entrance or exit; street, alley, gallery, or corridor. The line of guards and constables kept the pa ageways open, so that carriages were freer to move out at a rapid pace than when they actually reached some of the regular thoroughfares of the city. T. C. Crawford , English Life, p. 44. 2. A hall. [U. S.] Meanwhile, there was a step in the pa ageway, above Hawthorne, Seven Gables, vii. stairs. W. M. Baker, New Timothy, p. 340. (b) A part of a conversation; a speech; are mark; a state ment; an expre ion. IMG:content-2419.png:[blocks in formation] Did play a subtler game; the conquer'd triumphs, The victor has the lo ; yet in the pa age The gods have been most equal. Fletcher ( and another ), Two Noble Kinsmen, v. 4. 11. The act of pa ing, enacting, or rendering valid; approval, sanction, or enactment; authoritative ative adoption and enactment, as of a parliamentary motion, measure, or bill: as, the of the bill through the House was ac complished with difficulty.-12+. A pa ing away; departure; death. So shalt thou lead Safest thy life, and best prepared endure Thy mortal pa age when it comes. Milton, P. L., xi. 366. 13. In falconry, the line taken by herons in the breeding season over any region on their way to and from the heronry. Encyc. Brit., IX. 7. -14t. An old game played by two persons with three dice. "The caster throws continually till he has or doublets above ten and then he pa es and wins." Com thrown doublets under ten, and then he is out and loses, pleat Gamester, p. 67. ( Hall i well.) Learn to play at primero and pa age . B. Jonson, Every Man out of his Humour, i. 1. Alveolar pa ages. See alveolar . - Beds of pa age, in geol . , beds which lie between other groups of strata, and exhibit conditions, either of lithological structure or of fo il contents, indicating a gradual transition from the character of the underlying to that of the overlying group. - Bird of pa age. See bird1 and migration . In pa age, in pa ing; cursorily; transitorily. These fundamental knowledges have been studied but in pa age. Bacon . Intercellular, middle, neurenteric, northeast, northwest pa age. See the adjectives. - Pa age hawk, in falconry. See hawk1 . Encyc. Brit., IX. 7. Any feat of Pa age of arms. (a) Originally, a feat of arms at the pa age of a ford, gorge, or bridge; especially, the defending of the pa age by a champion or the forcing of it by deliberately brought about as a feat of prowe alyong quarrel, especially one of words; as, there was a grand pa age of arms between them. [Colloq.] - Pedal pa age. See pedal. - To make a pa age. (a) To mi grate, as whales, from one feeding-ground to another. (b) To make an outward or a home trip, as a ve el, as distinguished from cruising about. Syn. 3. Path, Pa , etc. See way. pa age (pas'āj), v. i.; pret. and pp. pa aged, ppr. pa aging. pa aging. [F. pa ager; from the noun.] 1. To pa or cro . IMG:content-2420.png:[blocks in formation]