pass 
Though wrll ' miidit iiiitpiMK upon his lit. 
Without th..- fiiriii of justice. Shut., l-ear, 111. 7. 24. 
Let your justii-e ami speedy sciitriict: patfe against thin 
great malefactor I'n-hitj. 
Mitt"n. rlmi, Ii tiovernmcnt, ii., i'lin. 
8. To Ilirusl or liniyc, us in IVnciii";. 
1 limy you. pass with your best \inl.-ih i . 
.s'/i.iA., Hamlet, v. >. 309. 
0. To go unheeded or neglected; go by with- 
out notice or challenge. 
I b"i- v"i will be more vigilante hereafter, that nothing 
in such a manm-i. 
r.nnlfnrd, riyinouth Plantation, p. 180. 
True, we have lust ;ui empire let It past. 
Camper, Tank, II. 286. 
10. To go through a duct or opening; be voided. 
Such |BiiliHtiiiicuK| whose tenacity exceeds the powen of 
digestion will neither pass nor be converted Into aliment. 
.1 ,-'.f/i..r, Minn-ills, I. V. 
11. To be interchanged; be reciprocally com- 
municated or conveyed : as, no one knows what 
/instil between them. 
After Salutations and divers Knibroces which patted In 
the first Interview, they parted late. 
lloaeU, Letters, I. IIL 15. 
Many endearments and private whispersixMwd between 
them. Addison, The Tory Foxlmnter. 
she wondered if he remembered the kiss that had fttmt 
between them on New Year's Eve. 
Mn. Hi, Aril, Sylvia's Lovers, xvi. 
12. To be transferred as from one to another: 
as, the laud i><tsxr<l to other owners. 13f. To 
go beyond bounds ; exceed toleration or belief. 
Why. this pomes ! Master Ford, you are not to go loose 
any longer. Shale., M. W. of W., Iv. 2. 127. 
Yea, and it paaeth to see what sport e and passetyme the 
godds themselves have at suche folie of these selie mor- 
tall men. 
Chalontr, tr. of Morue Encomium, K 2. (tfaret.) 
14. To circulate; keep moving. 
Fill up your glass, let the Jug pan, 
How d'ye know but your neighbour 's dry ? 
Lever, Song. 
Let the toast pott; 
Drink to the lass ; 
I '11 warrant she '11 prove an excuse for the glass. 
Sheridan, School for Scandal, 111. S (song). 
15f. To care; have regard: usually with a 
negative. 
Wee in-i-dr not much pome if the degree do differ sum 
what from theyr opinion, for asmuche as the difference 
can not bee greate. 
/(. Eden, tr. of Peter Martyr (First Books on America, 
[ed. Arber, p. 110). 
The poet luuenall reproched the couetous Merchant, 
who for lucres sake passed on no perill either byJand or 
tea. Puttenham, Arte of Eng. Poesle, p. 175. 
As for these silken-coated slaves, I pats not ; 
It is to you, good people, that I speak. 
Shot., 2 Hen. VI., Iv. 2. 136. 
If, when I should choose, 
Beauty and virtue were the fee proposed, 
I should n"i pass for parentage. 
.Ford, Love's Sacrifice, 1. 1. 
16f. To win in the old game of passage. See 
passar/e, 14. 17. In card-playintj : (a) To de- 
cline to avail one's self of an opportunity as, 
in euchre, by refusing to order up, assist, or 
make the trump. (6) In poker and certain other 
games, to throw up one's hand ; retire from the 
game. 
Full piteous seems young Alma's Case : 
As in a luckless Gamester's Place, 
She would not play, yet must not paw. 
Prior, Alma, I. 
18. To throw a ball from one to another; play 
"catch." [New Eng.] 
In New England the ordinary term used to express the 
throwing and catching of a ball by two or more persons Is 
pass. " Let 's go out and pats." In New Jersey and Penn- 
sylvania the verb is catch. 
Jour, of Amer. folk-Lore, II. 155. 
19. To toll the passing-bell for a death. [Prov. 
Eng.] To bring to pass. See briny. To come to 
pass. See come. To pass current. See eurrmtt. 
To pass Off, to be earned through or conducted, in the 
sense of a succession of Incidents and impressions taken 
collectively, or of a general impression : as, the anniver- 
sary celebration passed of brilliantly. To pass Off for 
or as, to be generally received or regarded as ; be taken 
for. To pass over, to overlook ; disregard. 
If I counseil of wonimcn wolde blame, 
Passr over, for I sayde it In my game. 
Chaucer, Nun's Priest's Tale, 1. 44i 
To pass upon, to pass judgment or adjudicate upon (a 
question): as, the court dismissed the cast- without pats- 
\ng UfHin the merits. Well to passt, well off; well to 
do ; in comfortable circumstances. 
llis mothers husband, who reputed was 
His father, being rieh and it-ell to pane, 
A wealthy merchant and an alderman. 
On forraigne shores did tr.ivell now and then. 
Scott's PhUotnythie (1616). (HaUiuxU.) 
II. trans. 1. To go by ; go past without stop- 
ping. 
1818 
.Some we vyiyted and some we patted by |l)jr reason of I 
lacke of tyme, whirhe I net not In ordre as they lye and 
Sir /(. Gut/l/orde, Pylgrymage, p. 40. 
There are so many things which make that (St. Augus- 
tine) a dilHcult Cape to past that hardly any Man would 
try to do it, but at a distance. Dumpier, Voyages, II. IIL 9. 
Time, as he panes us, has a dove's wing. 
I'nsoird, and swift, anil of a silken sound. 
Cowper, Task, iv. 211. 
2. To go over; cross: as, to pats a stream; to 
pass the threshold. 
But In seeking to pane the Kluer Euphrates was drowned. 
Purchas, Pilgrimage, p. 281. 
To pane the seas was their intent. 
Itutcheu o/Su/ott'i Calamity (Child's Ballads, VII. 300). 
The Northern Men said, It was their Bargain to have all 
the Spoil in every Place, after they had patted Trent. 
Baker, Chronicles, p. 188. 
3. To issue or proceed from or through, as in 
utterance. 
Howo'er harsh language, 
Call'd on by your rough usage, pant'd my lips, 
In my heart I ever lov'd you. 
Fletcher, Spanish Curate, v. 3. 
I will describe him to you, If I can, but don't iet It pau 
your lips. Walpole, Letters, II. 444. 
But nevermore did either pan the gate 
Save under pall with bearers. 
Ttnnyton, Aylmer's Field. 
4. To undergo; go through; experience, as 
perils or hardships. 
She loved me for the dangers I had pats' d. 
Shat., Othello, L 3. 167. 
6. To undergo successfully, as an examination, 
inspection, or the like: as, to pass muster. 
All things among men of sense and condition should jxu 
the censure, and have the protection, of the eye of reason. 
Sttcle, Spectator, No. 438. 
The analysis is necessary for the due estimate of bis 
value as a historian : the writer who can past such an or- 
deal where it Is possible to apply it may be trusted where 
It la not possible to apply it. 
, M 
. 
edieval and Modern Hist., p. 80. 
6. To live or exist through; spend: used of 
time: as, to pass one's time in idleness. 
O, I haveporaVJ a miserable night, 
So full of ugly sights, of ghastly dreams. 
SAo*., Rich. III., I. 4. 8. 
I had a message from Malim Sollman, that I must come 
to his house and pout the whole day with him. 
Pocodre, Description of the East, I. 80. 
The hours we pan with happy prospects In view are 
more pleasing than those crowned with fruition. 
Goldtmith, Vicar, x. 
In the midst of the service, a lady, who had patted the 
winter at London with her husband, entered the congre- 
gation. Additon, Spectator. 
7. To let go by without action or notice ; take 
no notice of : as, to pass an affront. 
Ills tears, his oaths, his perjuries, I pott o'er : 
To think of them Is a disease. 
Fletcher, Spanish Curate, III. S. 
I wonder how the curiosity of wiser heads could pan that 
great and Indisputable miracle, the cessation of oracles. 
Sir T. Browne, Keliglo Medici, 1. 29. 
I pott their warlike pomp, their proud array. Dryden. 
8. To omit; leave out; skip; fail to pay: as, 
to pass a dividend. [U. S.] 9t. To regard; 
consider; heed: care: usually with a negative : 
as, I pass not what they say. 
Nor the Utopians past not how many of them they bring 
to destruction. 
Sir T. More, Utopia (tr. by Kobinson), II. 10. 
Whoe'er It be, I do not pass a pin ; 
Alphonsus means his soldier for to he. 
Greene, Alphonsns, I. 
If a writer will scenic to observe no decorum at alle, 
nor passe how he fashion his tale to his matter, who doubt - 
rtli out he may in the lightest cause speake like a Pope, 
& In the grauest matters prate like a parrat? 
Puttenham, Arte of Eng. Poesle, p. 126. 
10. To do or finish doing; make an end of ; ac- 
complish; finish. 
This night 
Well pott the business privately and well. 
slink-., T. of the 8., iv. 4. 57. 
This ceremony being patt'd, my Lord fell to Business. 
llnmll. Letters, I. vi :.. 
11. To surpass; exceed; transcend; excel: as, 
it passes belief or comprehension. 
He syngeth, dannceth, pattynge any man 
That is or was, sith that the world nigan. 
Chaucer, Franklin's Tale, 1. 201. 
Hee dooth not onely farre paste the Historian, bat for 
instructing is well nigh comparable to the Philosopher. 
Sir P. Sidney, ApoL for Poetrie. 
A quiet life doth pass an empery. Greene, Alphonstu, I. 
The peace of God, which pasteth all understanding, shall 
keep your hearts and minds through Jesus Christ. 
Phil. IT. 7. 
War passes the power of all chemical solvents, breaking 
up the old adhesions and allowing the atoms of society 
to take a new order. Emerson. Harvard Commemoration. 
12. To gain the acceptance or approval of; 
obtain the official or authoritative sanction of: 
pass 
U, tl! bill has pas*"! il,, St-nat. 13. To 
sanction: approve; mart; ratify; give legal 
effect to; allow or cause to become law: as. tin- 
Senate Ims /// the bill; a resolution has 
lil-l-ll itilsHtl; tlli-V /nl,~lil :t dhi.lili'l nf M-WII 
per cent, (that is, authorized the payment of 
such n dividrml I, 
The greatest matter patted was a proclamation against 
the spolle of Cahowes. 
Quoted In Capt. John Smith's Works, II. 140. 
It was in Requital that his Majesty paMf the Petition 
of Right. Bovett, Letters, I. v. 6. 
My lord, and shall we COB the bill 
I mentkm'd half an hour ago? 
Tennyton, Day-Dream, Kevlral. 
14. To give expression to ; utter; pronounce: 
us, tt) IMIX.I judgment on a person or ;m opinion. 
Firm and Irrevocable Is my doom 
Which I have paa'd upon her. 
Shalt., As you Like it, I. S. 86. 
To pats a judgment upon Cures, and the good and evil 
practice of Physlck, without doubt is one of the nicest 
things, even to Men of the Faculty. 
Litter, Journey to Paris, p. 240. 
The Archbishop of York not only votes for Lord (iren- 
ville, bat has passed upon him and his ecclesiastical pro- 
pensities a warm panegyric. 
Sydney Smith, To Countess Grey. 
15. To transfer or transmit from one person, 
place, or condition to another; deliver; com- 
municate; circulate; hand over: as, to pats 
title to property ; to pass the bottle. 
What mean you by this, to call him King who hath 
passed his Kingdom over to his Son? 
Baker, Chronicles, p. 54. 
He brought an accounte which to them all amounted 
not to above 400". for which he had patted bonds. 
llradjurd, Plymouth Plantation, p. 232. 
Over blowing seaa, 
Over seas at rest, 
Pats the happy news, 
Blush It thro 1 the West. 
Tennyton, Maud, xvll. 
16. To put into circulation; use as current 
money by paying or otherwise transferring to 
another : as, to pass a light coin ; to pass coun- 
terfeit notes. 17. To discharge from the in- 
testinal canal; void, as bile, blood, etc.: as, to 
pass a tapeworm. 18. To cause to percolate 
or filter through : as, to pass a liquid through 
muslin or charcoal ; to pass gas through water. 
I9f. To pierce ; penetrate. 
From strong Patroclus' hand the jav'lln fled, 
And uass'd The groin of valiant Thrasymed. 
Pope, Iliad, xvL 567. 
20f. In fencing, to perform ; execute. 
To see thee pats thy punto, thy stock, thy reverse, thy 
distance, thy moiitanl. Shalt., M. W. of W., ii. 3. 26. 
21. AVittf., to fasten or secure or to use in fas- 
tening by taking a few turns, as of rope or small 
line around something: as, to pans a gasket, 
seizing, earing, etc. 22. To go beyond; ex- 
ceed; transgress. 
Trewely to take and treweliche to fyjte, 
Ys the profession and the pure ordre that apendeth to 
knygtes ; 
Who-so pasteth that poynt ys apostata of knyjthod. 
Piers Plowman (C), II. 98. 
He marks the 1 K m mis which Winter may not pass, 
And blunts his pointed fury. Covper, Task, vL 192. 
To be passed on*, to be considered, regarded, or heeded. 
It Is made a matter of sport, a matter of nothing, a 
laughing matter, and a trifle not to be patted on, nor to be 
reformed. Latimer, 2d Sermon bef. Edw. VI., 1550. 
To pass away, (a) To spend ; while away ; waste. 
Lest she pass away the flower of her age. Ecclns. xl ii. 9. 
Their design was to pass aicay the heat of the summer 
among the fresh breezes that rise from the river, and the 
agreeable mixture of shades and fountains In which the 
whole country naturally abounds. 
Additon, Ancient Medals, L 
(61) To transfer ; hand over Into the possession of another ; 
alienate. 
When she [the cow) came to be patt away In parte of 
payment*, after y agreemente, she would be accepted but 
at 4". IS*. Bradford, Plymouth Plantation, p. S79. 
To piss by. (a) To go past without visiting or making a 
half 
Corfu, the first Island of note that we patt by. lyeth In 
the Ionian sea, Sandys, Travailes, p. S. 
About six miles from Jerusalem we patted by the tents 
of the Arabs who were oar conductors ; here we ascended 
a hill to the south, from whleh we had a prospect of Sion. 
Poeocte, Description of the East, II. L 34. 
(Ii) To overlook ; take no notice of ; excuse. 
However God may pass by single sinners in this world, 
yet, when a nation combines against him, the wicked shall 
not go unpunished. Tillotton. 
Don't view me with a critic's eye, 
But pass my Imperfections by. 
D. Kterett, Lines written for a School Declamation. 
(e) To neglect ; disregard. 
