Via

vī′a, or vē′a, n. a highway, a road, a route— via London =by way of London: a natural pa age of the body.— n. Viam′eter , an odometer.— adj. Viat′ic .— n.pl. Viat′icals , military baggage.— Via dolorosa , the Way of Calvary (see Station ); Via lactea , the Milky-Way or Galaxy; Via media , the midway course or mean between popular Protestant ism and Roman Catholicism which Newman almost down to 1845 succeeded in believing that the Anglican divines of the 17th century had taken up.— Primæ viæ , the first or main pa ages, the alimentary canal, the bowels; Secundæ viæ , the lacteal or chyliferous ve els.