PASS

Definitions

1. 1. An opening, road, or track, available for passing; especially, one through or over some dangerous or otherwise impracticable barrier; a passageway; a defile; a ford; as, a mountain pass. "Try not the pass!" the old man said. Longfellow.
2. 2. A thrust or push; an attempt to stab or strike an adversary. Shak.
3. 3. A movement of the hand over or along anything; the manipulation of a mesmerist.
4. 4. A single passage of a bar, rail, sheet, etc., between the rolls.
5. 5. State of things; condition; predicament. Have his daughters brought him to this pass. Shak. Matters have been brought to this pass. South.
6. 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. 7. Fig.: a thrust; a sally of wit. Shak.
8. 8. Estimation; character. [Obs.] Common speech gives him a worthy pass. Shak.
9. 9. 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.