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confequencetoboth countries, viz. Perpignan in France, 
on the fide of the Mediterranean lea, leading to Figueras, 
Rofas, and Barcelona; and Pampeluna, which is co¬ 
vered by Foutarabia, from Bayonne, on the Atlantic. 
James's Mil. Did. 
Pass, among miners, a kind of open trough, confin¬ 
ing of two or three bottom boards, and two fide ones, fet 
flopewife; through which the ore Hides down into the 
coffer of the ftamping-mill. Chambers. 
PASS'ABLE, adj. [Fr. from pafs.'] Poflible to be paffed 
or travelled through or over.—His body is a pajfable car- 
kafs, if he be not hurt. It is a thoroughfare for fteel. 
Shahefpeare's Cymbeline. —Antiochus departed in all hafte, 
weening in his pride to make the land navigable, and the 
fea pajjable by foot. 2. Macc. —Supportable ; tolerable; 
allowable.—White and red, well mingled on the face, 
make what was before but pajfable, appear beautiful. 
Dry dm. —Capable of admiffion or reception.—In coun¬ 
terfeits, it is with men as with falfe money ; one piece is 
more or lefs pajfable than another. L'Ef range. —Popular ; 
well received. This is a feij'e lej's vfual. —Where there is 
no eminent odds in fufliciency, it is better to take with 
the more pajfable, than with the more able. Bacon. —A 
man of the one faction, which is moll pajfable with the 
other, commonly giveth beft way. Bacon’s EJj’ays. 
PASS'ABLY, adv. Tolerably; moderately.— Other 
towns are pajfably rich, and ftored with flapping ; but not 
one very poor. Howell, 
PASSACA'GLIO, /. [Ital. pajfacaille. Fr.] A flow 
dance, refembling the chaconne; the only difference is, 
that it is generally fomewhat flower, and more pathetic : 
on this account, the pajfacaglii are almoft always com- 
pofed in the minor key. BrojJ'ard. 
PASSA'DO, f. [Italian.] A pulh ; a tliruft.—A duel- 
lift, a gentleman of the very firft houfe ; ah ! the mortal 
pajfado. Shahefpeare's Rom. and Jul. 
P ASS ADUNKEAG, a conftderable branch of the river 
Penobfcot. , 
PASS'AGE, /. [French.] Aft of palling; travel; 
courfe; journey.—Live like thofe who look upon them- 
felves as being only on their pajfage through this ftate, 
but as belonging to that which is to come. Atterbury. — 
Though the pajfage be troublefome, yet it is fecure, 
and (hall in a little time bring us eafe and peace at the 
laft. Wake. 
In fouls prepar'd, the pajfage is a breath 
From time t’eternity, from life to death. Harte. 
Road; way.—Human aftions are fo uncertain, as that 
feemeth the beft courfe, which hath moft pajfages out of 
it. Bacon. —The land-enterprife of Panama was grounded 
upon a falfe account, that the pajfages towards it were 
no better fortified than Drake had left them. Bacon. 
Is there yet no other way befides 
Thefe painful pajfages, how we may come 
To death, and mix with our connatural dull. Milton. 
The paJJ'age of a river is a ford or bridge. Judg. xii. 36. 
On land, a pajfage often fignifies a narrow way between 
mountains, lakes, &c. fuch as the pajfages of Michmalh 
and Abarim, that were rendered narrow by the hills or 
rocks on each fide. 1 Sam. xiii. 23. Jer. xxii. 20.—The 
Perfian army had advanced into the ftraight pajfages of 
Cilicia, by which means Alexander with his fmall army 
was able to fight and conquer them. South. —Entrance or 
exit: liberty to pafs.— Pajfage (paffagium) is properly 
over water, as way is over land. And thus, pajfagio is 
the name of a writ direited to the keepers of the ports 
to permit a man to pafs over fea, who has the king’s 
leave. Jacob's Law Did. 
You (hall furnilh me 
With cloake, and coate, and make ray pajfage free 
For lov’d Dulichius. Chapman. 
The ftate of decay. Not in ufe, 
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Would fome part of my young years 
Might but redeem the paJJ'age of your age ! Shahefpeare. 
Intelleftual admittance; mental acceptance.—I would 
render this treatife intelligible to every rational man, 
however little verfed in fcholaftic learning, among whom 
I expeftit will have a fairer paJJ'age than among thofe 
deeply imbued with other principles. Digby. —Occur¬ 
rence ; hap : 
It is no aft of common pajfage , but 
A ftrain of rarenefs. Shahefpeare. 
Unfettled ftate; aptnefs by condition or nature to change 
the place of abode.—Traders in Ireland are but faftors ; 
the caufe mull be rather an ill opinion of fecurity than of 
gain : the laft entices thepoorer traders, young beginners, 
or thofe of paJJ'age ; but, without the firft, the rich will 
never fettle in the country. Temple. 
In man the judgment Ihoots at flying game; 
A bird of pajfage! loft as foon as found ; 
Now in the moon perhaps, now under ground. Pope. 
Incident; tranfaftion.—This bufinefs, as it is a very high 
paJJ'age of ftate, fo it is worthy of ferious confideration. 
Hayward. 
Thou doeft in thy pajfages of life 
Make me believe that thou art only mark’d 
For the hot vengeance of heav’n. Shahefpeare's Hen. IV. 
Management; conduft.—Upon confideration of the con- 
duft and pajfage of affairs in former times, the ftate of 
England ought to be cleared of an imputation call upon 
it. Davies on Ireland. —Part of a book; Angle place in a 
writing.—A critic who has no tafte nor learning, fel- 
dom ventures to praife any paJJ'age in an author who has 
not been before received by the public. Addifon's Sped. 
As to the cantos, all the pajfages are as fabulous as the 
vifion at the beginning. Pope. 
How commentators each dark pajfage ftiun. 
And hold their farthing candle to the fun. Young. 
A game at dice, to be played at but by two, and per¬ 
formed with three dice.—800I. a year; but let it pafs, 
for pajfage carried away the moft part of it, a plague of 
fortune. The Hog hath lojt his Pearl, 
Passage, or Right of Pajfage, is an impofition, which 
fome princes exaft in certain narrow clofe places of their 
territories, either by land or fea, on all veffels and carriages, 
and even fometimes on perfons as pafl'engers coming in 
or going out of ports, &c. The paffage of the Sound 
(that famous flreight, which carries us out of the German 
into the Baltic fea) is the moft celebrated paffage in 
Europe. The dues thereof belong to the king of Den¬ 
mark, and are paid at Eliinore or Cronenburg. 
PASS'AGE, a town of South America, in the govern¬ 
ment of Tucuman, on a river of the fame name: 116 
miles north of St. Miguel de Tucuman. 
PASS'AGE (Great), one of the Virgin iflands, in the 
Weft Indies, about feven miles long, and two wide: 
twelve miles eaft of Porto Rico. 
PASS'AGE (Little), one of the Virgin iflands, near 
Great Paffage Ifland. 
PASS'AGE CANAL', an inlet in Prince William’s 
Sound. Lat. 60.48. N. Ion. 212. 15. E. 
PASSAGE FO'RT, a fmall town of Jamaica, fituated 
in the road between Port Royal and Spanifh Town, feven 
miles fouth-eaft of the latter, and at the mouth of the 
river Cober, where it has a fort, with ten or twelve guns. 
It has a brifk trade, and contains about 400 houfes, the 
greateft part of them houfes of entertainment. 
PASSAGE I'SLAND, a fmall ifland at the entrance of 
a channel from the North Pacific Ocean, among the Phi¬ 
lippine iflands; about twenty miles eaft from the ifland 
of Leyta. Lat. 10. 44. N. 100.125.27.®. 
PASSAGE I'SLAND, a fmall low ifland in the gulf of 
Georgia, at the entrance into Howe’s Sound. Lat. 49. 
21. N. Ion. 237. 3. E. 
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