passement 
passement (pas'ment), . [Formerly passemen 
and iiimtsHHH'Ht; < ME. passement = T).passemvitt 
= MLG. pasemenl = Gr. posameitt, < OP. (and F. ) 
passement, lace, a lacing; appar. for "passeman 
= PT.passamen = It. passamano, < Sp. passa- 
mano, nowpasamano (= fg.passaman.es), a rail- 
ing, balustrade, gangway, edging for clothes, 
dim. ptissamanillo, narrow lace, small twist ; ap- 
par.< passar, novrjmsar, pass, + mano, hand (see 
pans, v., and main 3 ) ("por que pasamos por el 
la mano," because we pass the hand along the 
railing). In another view the F. passement, 
lace, is identical with passement, a passing, < 
431(5 
Cabin passenger. Sec cabin. Passenger cases, two 
decisions of theTnited States Supreme Court in 1849, hold- 
ing State laws imposing taxes upon immigration toltevoid. 
Passenger falcon, the peregrine. Steerage pas- 
senger. See steerage. 
passenger-car (pas'en-jer-kiir), . A car for 
carrying passengers on a railroad; specifically, 
an ordinary car for day travel, as distinguished 
from a sleeping-car or drawing-room car, etc. 
[U. S.] 
passenger-elevator (pas'en-jer-el"e-va-tor), n. 
An elevator or lift for persons. [U. S.] 
passenger-engine (pas'en-jer-en"jin), TO. A lo- 
comotive engine constructed specially for pas- 
Passeres 
the same source.] 1. A dance said to have 
originated in Brittany, resembling the minuet, 
but much quicker. It was introduced into Paris by 
street dancers in l. r S7, and into the ballet during the reign 
of Louis XIV., and was often brought into the suite by the 
great composers of that time, both French and German. 
It was a .favorite dance at the court of Queen Elizabeth, 
and remained in vogue until the early part of the eigh- 
teenth century. 
2. Music for such a dance, or in its rhythm, 
which was triple and quick. 
Also i/asjiy. _ 
passer 1 (pas'er), it. [<pas* + -/!.] 1. One 
who passes, in any sense of that word. 2. A 
Passenger-engine. 
i, headlight; a. front end; 3, signal-lamp; 4, spark-pipe ; 5, smoke- pipe; 25, driver-spring; 26, main rod; 27, forward crank-pin; 28, side 
stack; 6, pilot ^ 7, air-brake hose; ^8, steam-chest ;_$, cylinder^ lo.oil- rod; 39, back crank-pin; 30, back driving-axle; 31, driving-wheel box; 47, reverse-lever; 48, auxiliary reservoir ; 49, main air-reservoir; 
pipe ; II, cylinder-cocks ; 12, engine-truck ; 13, bell; 14, sand-box; 15, 
sand-pipe; 16, jacket; 17, valve-stem ; 18, guide-cup; 19, cross-head ; 
20, guides; 21, link; 22, 
valve; 43, tender hand-brake; 44, tank; 45, feed-pipe hose; 46, oil- 
. . _,. - j-- -i j-- I'lug-wncci uux ; 47, icvcr: 
brake; 32, steam-dome; 33, whistle and whistle-lever; 34, cab; 35, 50, hand-hole, 
throttle-lever; 36, boiler-head ; 37, gage-cocks ; 38, donkey-pump ; 39, 
rocker-arm; 23, injector-check; 24, injector- reach-rod; 40. equalizer; 41. driving-wheel brake cylinder; 43, tarik- 
_ . _.[, cylinder (same as No. 9); b, exhaust-passage; i, 
steam-pipe; d, branch pipe (end of dry pipe); e. exhaust-pipe ; /, 
smoke-arch. 
passer, pass: see pass, v.~\ 1. Lace. 2. A 
decorative edging or trimming, especially a 
gimp or braid. 
Passements of gold vpon the stuff e of a Princely garment. 
Puttenham, Arte of Eng. Poesie, p. 115. 
passement (pas'ment), v. t. [< passement, .] 
To deck with passement or lace ; hence, to or- 
nament the exterior of. 
Ashamed to be scene among these who are passemented 
with gold. Boyd, Last Battell, p. 620. 
passementerie (pas-men-te-re' ), n. [F., < passe- 
ment, lace : see passement."] Edgings and trim- 
mings in general, especially those made of 
gimp, braid, or the like : often made with jet 
or metal beads: as, jet passementerie; plain 
passementerie (that is, without beading). See 
passement. 
passemezzo, n. See passamezzo. 
passenger (pas'en-jer), n. [Early mod. E. also 
passinger, earlier passager (the being inserted 
as in messenger, porringer, etc.) ; < OF.passagier, 
F. passager (Sp. pasajero = Pg. passageiro = It. 
passegiero, passegiere), < passage, passage : see 
passage.] If. One who passes or is on his way ; 
a passer-by ; a wayfarer ; a traveler. 
A noble but unfortunate gentleman, 
Cropt by her hand, as some rude passenger 
Doth plucke the tender roses in the hudde ! 
Marston, Insatiate Countesse, v. 
It is a River apt to swell much upon suddain Rains, in 
which case, precipitating it's self from the Mountains with 
great rapidity, it has been fatal to many a Passenger. 
Ataundrett, Aleppo to Jerusalem, p. 43. 
Shopkeepers may sit and ask, "What do youlack?" when 
the passengers may very well reply, " What do you lack 
yourselves ? " The Great Frost (A rber's Eng. Garner, I. 86). 
2. One who travels in a public conveyance ; es- 
pecially, one who travels in such a conveyance 
by virtue of a contract express or implied with 
the carrier, as the payment of fare, or some- 
thing accepted as an equivalent therefor. 
There are ... ferries or passages, . . . where passengers 
may be transported in a Gondola. Caryat, Crudities, I. 210. 
In this year, 1657, in the month of November, Mr. Gar- 
ret set sail on a voyage for England, from Boston ; in whose 
ship, amongst many considerable passengers, there went 
Mr. Thomas Mayhew. 
N. Morton, New England's Memorial, p. 274. 
All the passengers, except a very fat lady on the back 
seat, had alighted. Hawthorne, Sketches from Memory. 
3f. A bird of passage ; a casual visitor. 
Sometimes are also scene Falcons and lar-falcons Os- 
praies, a bird like a Hobby, but because they come sel- 
dome, they are held but as passengers. 
Capt. John Smith, Works, II. 115. 
4f. A passage-boat. 
In Pocchorrosa, he is assigned to leaue fyftie men with 
the lyghtest shyp which maye bee a pasrinyer betwene 
them ; that, lyke as we vse poste horses by lande, so may 
they, by this currant shippe, in short space, certifle the 
Lieuetenaunt and th[e| inhabitours of Darienaof suche 
thynges as shall chaunce. 
R. Eden, tr. of Peter Martyr (First Books on America, 
[ed. Arber, p. 163). 
He. . . tooke the sea in upassager, and arriued at Calais. 
llaKimjt'i Voyages, II. 69. 
senger traffic. While capable of higher speed, 
its tractive power is less than that of a freight- 
engine. See locomotive. 
passenger-locomotive (pas'en-jer-16-ko-mo'- 
tiv), . Same as passenger-engine. 
passenger-pigeon (pas'en-jer-pij'on), . The 
common wild pigeou of the United States, 
drill used in cutlery to make holes to receive 
little ornamental studs of gold or silver. It has 
a stop to prevent the point of the drill from 
penetrating the handle beyond the required 
depth. 3. A gimlet. [Prov. Eng.] 
Passer 2 (pas'er), n. [L., a sparrow.] A genus 
of fringilliform or conirostral oscine passerine 
birds, founded by Brisson in 1 760, typically rep- 
resenting the family FrintjiUtilse, and a repre- 
I'assenger-pigeon (F.ctopistts 
Ectopistes migratorius: so called from its very 
extensive wanderings in search of food. See 
Ectopistes. 
passenger-ship (pas'en-jer-ship), n. A ship 
which carries passengers. 
passenger-train (pas'en-jer-tran), n. A rail- 
way-traip for the conveyance of passengers, as 
distinguished from a freight- or goods-train, oil- 
train, coal-train, etc. 
passe-partout (pas-par-to'), n. [F., a master- 
key, also a passe-partout in engraving, etc. , for- 
merly also a resolute fellow; < passer, pass, go 
(seepass, v.), + partout, everywhere, (.par (< L. 
per, through) + tout, <L. totus, all: see total.'} 
1. That by means of which one can pass any- 
where; a master-key; a latch-key. 2. In en- 
graving, an engraved plate or block forming 
an ornamental border around an aperture into 
which the engraved portrait or picture may be 
inserted ; also, a typographical frame or or- 
namental border about a page, etc.: a French 
use. 3. A picture-frame consisting usually 
of a pasteboard back and a piece of glass, be- 
tween which a drawing or engraving is placed, 
often with a plain or ornamented mat between 
it and the glass, the whole being held in posi- 
tion by means of strips of paper pasted over 
the edges. 
There were engravings and photographs in passe-partout 
frames, that journeyed with her safely in the bottoms of 
her trunks. Mrs. Whitney, Leslie Goldthwaite, vi. 
passepied (pas'pya), . [F., < passer, pass, + 
pU'il, < 1i.pes (ped-) = E./oof. Of. paspy, from 
European House-sparrow (Passtr domestic**). 
sentative example of the Oscines or normal Pas- 
seres. The name lapsed, or was used with little dis- 
crimination, for a century, but is now in nearly universal 
use for that genus of finches which contains the common 
European or so-called English sparrow (P. domesticus), the 
European tree-sparrow (P. montamts), and several other 
closely related species. The two species named are both 
naturalized in the United States. See sparrow and house- 
sparrow. 
passer-by (pas'er-bi'), n. One who passes by 
or near. Also by-passer. 
In an undertone, as if he were afraid a passer-by might 
hear him. Disraeli, Sybil, iv. 1. 
Passer culus (pa-ser'ku-lus), n. [NL. (Bona- 
parte, 1838), < L. passerculus, a little sparrow, 
dim. of passer, a sparrow : see Pasxer^."] A genus 
of American fringilline birds, embracing many 
of the commonest sparrows of the United States, 
of fully streaked coloration, with yellow on the 
bend of the wings, slender bill, short and nar- 
row unmarked tail, and pointed wings with 
elongated inner secondaries. Thecommon savanna- 
sparrow is P. savanna, and there are several others. 
They are ground-sparrows, and especially abound in low 
moist localities. 
Passerella (pas-e-rel'a), n. [NL. (Swainson, 
1837), dim. of L. passer, ''a sparrow : see Passer?. ] 
A genus of large handsome fox-colored fringil- 
line birds of North America, having enlarged 
feet ; the fox-sparrows. P. iliaca abounds in shrub- 
bery in most parts of eastern North America, and several 
other species or varieties are found in the west See fox- 
sparrow. 
Passerellinae (pas"e-re-ll'ne), . pi [NL. (S. 
F. Baird, 1858), < Passerella + -iw.] A sub- 
family of FriiiijiUida', named from the genus 
Pa.wrctla, having no definable characters. 
Passeres (pas'e-rez), ii. pi. [NL., pi. of L. pas- 
ser, sparrow: see Passer 1 *.] An order of the 
