3. A movement of the hand over or along anything; the manipulation of a mesmerist.
4. (Rolling Metals) A single passage of a bar, rail, sheet, etc., between the rolls.
5. State of things; condition; predicament.
Have his daughters brought him to this pass.
Shak.
Matters have been brought to this pass.
South. 6. Permission or license to pass, or to go and come; a psssport; a ticket permitting free transit or admission; as,
a railroad or theater pass; a military pass.
A ship sailing under the flag and pass of an enemy.
Kent. 7. Fig.: a thrust; a sally of wit. Shak.
8. Estimation; character. [Obs.]
Common speech gives him a worthy pass.
Shak. 9. [Cf. Passus.] A part; a division. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Pass boat (Naut.), a punt, or similar boat. — Pass book. (a) A book in which a trader enters articles
bought on credit, and then passes or sends it to the purchaser. (b) See Bank book. — Pass box
(Mil.), a wooden or metallic box, used to carry cartridges from the service magazine to the piece. —
Pass check, a ticket of admission to a place of entertainment, or of readmission for one who goes
away in expectation of returning.
Passable
(Pass"a*ble) a. [Cf. F. passable.]
1. Capable of being passed, traveled, navigated, traversed, penetrated, or the like; as, the roads are not
passable; the stream is passablein boats.
His body's a passable carcass if it be not hurt; it is a throughfare for steel.
Shak. 2. Capable of being freely circulated or disseminated; acceptable; generally receivable; current.
With men as with false money — one piece is more or less passable than another.
L'Estrange.
Could they have made this slander passable.
Collier. 3. Such as may be allowed to pass without serious objection; tolerable; admissable; moderate; mediocre.
My version will appear a passable beauty when the original muse is absent.
Dryden. Passableness
(Pass"a*ble*ness), n. The quality of being passable.
Passably
(Pass"a*bly), adv. Tolerably; moderately.
Passacaglia
(||Pas`sa*ca*glia ||Pas`sa*ca*glio) n. [Sp. pasacalle a certain tune on the guitar, prop., a
tune played in passing through the streets.] (Mus.) An old Italian or Spanish dance tune, in slow three-
four measure, with divisions on a ground bass, resembling a chaconne.
Passade
(Pas*sade" Pas*sa"do) n. [F. passade; cf. Sp. pasada. See Pass, v. i.]
1. (Fencing) A pass or thrust. Shak.
