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What's The Definition Of Pass?
[n] success in satisfying a test or requirement; "his future depended on his passing that test"; "he got a pass in introductory chemistry"
[n] (sports) the act of throwing the ball to another member of your team; "the pass was fumbled" [n] (baseball) an advance to first base by a batter who receives four balls; "he worked the pitcher for a base on balls" [n] a flight or run by an aircraft over a target; "the plane turned to make a second pass" [n] a football play that involves one player throwing the ball to a teammate; "the coach sent in a passing play on third and long" [n] a usually brief attempt; "he took a crack at it"; "I gave it a whirl" [n] a complementary (free) ticket; "the start got passes for his family" [n] a permit to enter or leave a military installation; "he had to show his pass in order to get out" [n] a document indicating permission to do something without restrictions; "the media representatives had special passes" [n] any authorization to pass or go somewhere; "the pass to visit had a strict time limit" [n] you advance to the next round in a tournament without playing an opponent; "he had a bye in the first round" [n] one complete cycle of operations (as by a computer); "it was not possible to complete the computation in a single pass" [n] a difficult juncture; "a pretty pass"; "matters came to a head yesterday" [n] the location in a range of mountains of a geological formation that is lower than the surrounding peaks; "we got through the pass before it started to snow" [n] a bad or difficult situation or state of affairs [n] (military) a written leave of absence; "he had a pass for three days" [v] eliminate from the body; "Pass a kidney stone" [v] come to pass; "What is happening?"; "The meeting took place off without an incidence"; "Nothing occurred that seemed important" [v] pass from physical life and lose all all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life; "She died from cancer"; "They children perished in the fire"; "The patient went peacefully" [v] disappear gradually; as of emotions, for example; "The pain eventually passed off" [v] transmit information ; "Please communicate this message to all employees" [v] grant authorization or clearance for; "Clear the manuscript for publication"; "The rock star never authorized this slanderous biography" [v] guide or pass over something; "He ran his eyes over her body"; "She ran her fingers along the carved figurine"; "He drew her hair through his fingers" [v] make laws, bills, etc. or bring into effect by legislation; "They passed the amendment"; "We cannot legislate how people's spend their free time" [v] pass into a specified state or condition; "He sank into Nirvana" [v] travel past, as of a vehicle; "The sports car passed all the trucks" [v] go across or through; "We passed the point where the police car had parked"; "A terrible thought went through his mind" [v] pass by; "A black limousine passed by when she looked out the window"; "He passed his professor in the hall"; "One line of soldiers surpassed the other" [v] cause to pass; "She passed around the plates" [v] pass by, as of time [v] transfer to another; of rights or property; "Our house passed under his official control" [v] be inherited by; "The estate fell to my sister"; "The land returned to the family"; "The estate devolved to an heir that everybody had assumed to be dead" [v] place into the hands or custody of; "Turn the files over to me, please"; "He turned over the prisoner to his lawyers" [v] throw (a ball) to another player; "Smith passed" [v] allow to go without comment or censure; "the insult passed as if unnoticed" [v] go unchallenged; be approved; "The bill cleared the House" [v] accept or judge as acceptable; "The teacher passed the student although he was weak" [v] go successfully through a test or a selection process; "She passed the new Jersey Bar Exam and can practice law now" [v] go beyond; "She exceeded out expectations"; "She topped her performance of last year" [v] stretch out over a distance, space, time, or scope; run or extend between two points or beyond a certain point; "Service runs all the way to Cranbury"; "His knowledge doesn't go very far"; "My memory extends back to my fourth year of life"; "The facts extend beyond a consideration of her personal assets" [v] pass in a specific way; as of time; "How are you spending your summer vacation?" [v] be identified, regarded, accepted, or mistaken for someone or something else; as by denying one's own ancestry or background; "He could pass as his twin brother"; "She passed as a White woman even though her grandfather was Black" Synonyms | Synonyms for Pass: authorise | authorize | base on balls | blow over | bye | clear | clear | come about | communicate | crack | decease | devolve | die | draw | egest | elapse | eliminate | evanesce | exceed | excrete | exit | expire | extend | fade | fall | fleet | fling | flip | give | glide by | go | go | go across | go along | go by | go on | go past | go past | go through | guide | hand | hap | happen | head | laissez passer | lapse | lead | legislate | liberty chit | make pass | mountain pass | notch | occur | offer | overhaul | overstep | overtake | pass away | pass by | pass off | pass on | pass on | passing | passing game | passing play | passport | perish | put across | qualifying | reach | return | run | run | sink | slide by | slip away | slip by | spend | strait | straits | straits | surpass | take place | top | toss | transcend | travel by | turn over | walk | whirl Related Terms | Find terms related to Pass: abalienate | abandon | abysm | abyss | accept | access | accredit | act like | administer | adopt | advance | affiliate | affirm | aggrandize | agree to | aisle | alien | alienate | alley | allow | ambulatory | amen | amortize | answer | ante | ante up | aperture | approach | approval | approve | arcade | arise | arroyo | artery | artful dodge | artifice | assign | attempt | authenticate | authority | authorization | authorize | autograph | avail | avenue | back | bag of tricks | barter | be all over | be annihilated | be at sea | be blooded | be consumed | be destroyed | be done for | be equal to | be found | be gone | be innocent of | be lost | be met with | be no more | be past | be realized | be regarded as | be successful | be wiped out | bear | bearings | beat | become extinct | become void | befall | bequeath | bestow | bestride | bet | bet on | betide | bill of health | bind | bite the dust | black out | blind | blink at | blow over | bluff | bosey | bottleneck | bottom | bottom glade | bottoms | bowl | box canyon | breach | break | breakers ahead | broadcast | buck | bypass | call | canal | canyon | cardhouse | carry | carry over | case | cash in | cast | catapult | catch | catch on | catch up with | cause for alarm | cavity | cease | cease to be | cease to exist | cease to live | cede | certify | change of pace | change-up | channel | chap | chasm | check | chicanery | chimney | chink | chouse | chuck | chunk | circulate | circumstance | clearance | cleft | cleuch | click | climacteric | cloister | close | clough | clutch | col | collapse | colonnade | come | come about | come across with | come along | come down | come off | come on | come through | come to naught | come to nothing | come to pass | come true | come up to | come up with | communicate | communication | commute | complication | complimentary ticket | condition | conduit | confer | confirm | conk out | connect | connection | consecrate to | consign | constitute | consume | contingency | continue | convergence of events | convey | coquet with | corridor | cosign | coulee | couloir | countersign | course | cover | cover ground | covered way | crack | cranny | crawl | creep | crevasse | crevice | crisis | critical juncture | critical point | croak | cross | crossroads | crucial period | cruise | crunch | crux | curve | curve-ball | cut | cwm | dabble | dale | danger | dangerous ground | dart | dash | deal | deal out | decease | declare | decline | decree | dedicate to | deed | deed over | defecate | defile | deliver | deliver over | dell | dematerialize | demise | depart | depart this life | deport | design | develop | device | devolve upon | devote | die | die away | die out | diffuse | dike | dingle | dirty deal | dirty trick | disappear | disburse | discharge | discontinue | discount | discount ticket | dismiss | dispel | dispense | disperse | dispose | disregard | disseminate | dissipate | dissolve | distance | distribute | ditch | do | do a fade-out | do it | dodge | dole | dole out | donga | downcurve | drag | draw | drift | drop | dwindle | effort | effuse | egest | elapse | elevate | eliminate | embarrassing position | embarrassment | embrace | emergency | emit | employ | enact | enact laws | end | endangerment | endeavor | endorse | endure | enfeoff | engage | ennoble | erode | espouse | estate | evacuate | evanesce | evaporate | eventuate | exalt | excavation | exceed | exchange | excrete | exigency | exit | expel | expend | expire | export | express | extend | extradite | extravasate | extremity | exudate | exude | fade | fade away | fade out | fail | faint | fall | fall asleep | fall out | fare | fare forth | farewell | fast deal | fastball | fault | feint | ferry | fetch | ficelle | filibuster | fill | fill the bill | fine how-do-you-do | fire | fissure | fix | flaw | flee | fleet | flight | fling | flip | flit | flow | flow on | flume | fly | footing | ford | forget | forgo | fork | fork over | forsake | forswear | forward | forward pass | fracture | free admission | free pass | free ticket | freedom | fritter away | fulfill | full pratique | furrow | gain ground | gain on | gain upon | gallery | gambit | gamble | gang | gap | gape | gaping chasm | gash | gather head | gathering clouds | get across | get ahead | get ahead of | get along | get by | get over | get the floor | get through | gill | gimmick | give | give in | give off | give out | give over | give over to | give permission | give the go-ahead | give the imprimatur | give thumbs up | give title to | give to | give up | give word | glen | glide | go | go across | go ahead | go along | go around | go as | go away | go beyond | go by | go fast | go forward | go great guns | go in for | go off | go on | go out | go over | go over big | go to town | go west | go-ahead | googly | gorge | graduate | green light | groove | grove | guest pass | gulch | gulf | gully | hack it | hand | hand down | hand forward | hand in | hand on | hand out | hand over | hap | happen | have it | have its time | have no idea | have run out | have the floor | hazard | heave | hell to pay | hide | hie | hinge | hobble | hocus-pocus | hold | hold the field | hold up | hole | home thrust | hot water | house of cards | how-do-you-do | hurl | hurtle | ignore | imbroglio | imitate | impart | imperilment | impersonate | import | improper suggestion | incision | incurve | indecent proposal | initial | inlet | instance | interchange | intersection | intervale | issue | isthmus | jab | jam | jeopardy | jerk | joint | joker | journey | juggle | junction | juncture | just do | keel over | kick the bucket | kick upstairs | kill | kloof | knight | know a little | know not | know not what | know nothing of | knuckleball | lance | lane | lap | lapse | last | lateral | lateral pass | launch | lay | lay a wager | lay down | leak | leave behind | leave no trace | leave standing | leave the scene | leave word | legislate | let fly | let go by | let pass | liberty | lie | lob | lobby through | location | log | logroll | lot | lunar rill | lunge | make a hit | make good time | make head against | make headway | make known | make nothing of | make over | make progress | make progress against | make strides | make the grade | make up leeway | masquerade as | measure out | meet | meet a bet | meet requirements | meet with success | melt | melt away | melt like snow | menace | mess | metastasize | metathesize | mete | mete out | mimic | mix | moat | modality | mode | morass | motion | move | move along | move forward | move on | narrow | narrows | neck | negotiate | not know | not rightly know | not understand | notarize | notch | nullah | occupy | occur | offer | OK | okay | omit | opening | ordain | outcurve | outdistance | outdo | outgo | outlet | outmatch | outpace | outrun | outsail | outshine | outstrip | overhaul | overlook | overpass | overreach | overrun | overshoot | overshoot the mark | overstep | overstride | overtake | paper | parcel out | parlay | parlous straits | part | pass | pass along | pass around | pass as | pass away | pass by | pass for | pass muster | pass off | pass on | pass out | pass over | pass the buck | pass up | pass upon | passage | passageway | passport | pay out | peg | peg out | pelt | perfuse | peril | perish | permission | permit | peter out | pickle | pigeonhole | pinch | pitch | pitchfork | place | play | play against | pledge | plight | ploy | plunge | pocket | portico | portion out | pose as | position | posture | pratique | predicament | prefer | press on | pretend to be | pretty pass | pretty pickle | pretty predicament | prevail | proceed | progress | promote | pronounce | proposal | proposition | prosper | protection | punt | push | push on | put | put in | put in force | put off mortality | put the shot | put through | quagmire | qualify | quicksand | quit this world | railroad through | railroad tunnel | raise | rank | ratify | ravine | reach | refuse | reject | relay | render | renounce | rent | repair | report | request | resign | resolution | retire from sight | return to dust | rift | rime | rise | risk | road | rocks ahead | roll | roll logs | roll on | route | rub | rubber stamp | run | run its course | run on | run out | rupture | ruse | safe-conduct | safeguard | sanction | sashay | satisfy | say amen to | scheme | scissure | scrape | scratch the surface | screwball | scurvy trick | seal | seam | second | secrete | see | sell | send | send word | serve | serve the purpose | service | set forth | settle | settle on | sexual advance | share | share with | shift | shoot | shoot ahead of | shot-put | shy | sign | sign and seal | sign away | sign over | signal | sink | sink away | sinker | situation | skip | sleight | sleight of hand | sleight-of-hand trick | slide | slider | slight | sling | 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transmit | transpire | transplace | transplant | transpose | transude | travel | trench | trial | trick | tricky spot | trough | try | tunnel | turn | turn down | turn over | turning | turning point | twofer | underpass | undersign | undertake | underwrite | unholy mess | up | up and die | upcurve | upgrade | urinate | use up | utter | vale | validate | valley | vanish | vanish from sight | veto | visa | vise | void | wadi | wager | waive | warrant | waste | waste away | way | wayfare | wear away | wear off | weep | wend | while | while away | wile | will | wonder | wonder whether | work | work well | work wonders | wot not of | yield the floor | yield the ghost | zero hour See Also | accomplishment | ace | achievement | acknowledge | advance | aerial | allow | allow | anticipate | approbate | approve | arise | asphyxiate | attempt | barf | be | be sick | bechance | befall | bespeak | betide | boarding card | boarding pass | break | break through | breeze through | broadcast | buy it | buy the farm | ca-ca | call for | carry | cast | cat | centering | certificate | certify | chain | chain of mountains | chance | change | change hands | change state | choke | christmas | chuck | circularise | circularize | circulate | clear | coincide | col | come | come | come around | come off | come through | come up | commission | commit | communicate | conceding | concession | concur | confide | conk | contemporise | contemporize | convey | countenance | cover | crack | crap | crash | croak | cross | Cumberland Gap | cut | cut across | cut through | cycle | cycle | deal | declare | defecate | defile | deliver | deliver | desperate straits | develop | die back | die down | die off | die out | diffuse | dire straits | disappear | discharge | disgorge | disperse | display | disseminate | distribute | distribute | do | drop dead | drown | effort | eject | empty | enact | endeavor | endeavour | entrust | evacuate | excel | expel | extend to | exudate | exude | fall | famish | fell | flight | fly | fly by | flying | football play | formalise | formalize | forward pass | free | fumble | gap | get across | get across | get by | get in | get over | get through | give | give away | give out | give up | go | go | go away | go deep | go far | go off | go on | go over | gorge | hall pass | hand down | hand out | hand over | holiday | honk | impart | implant | infiltrate | intrust | judge | jump | juncture | Khyber Pass | kick the bucket | lateral | lateral pass | lead | leave | leave | leave of absence | let | let | licence | licence | license | license | light | line | location | lock | locomote | make | make | make it | make water | march on | materialise | materialize | message | micturate | misspend | mountain chain | mountain range | move | move on | muscle | nail | negociate | O.K. | occasion | okay | ooze | ooze out | operate | ordain | oscillation | overstep | pass | pass | pass | pass across | pass around | pass off | pass on | pass over | pass over | pass through | pass water | pass with flying colors | pee | pee-pee | permission | permit | permit | permit | perspire | piddle | piddle | piddle away | pip out | piss | plant | pop off | predecease | proceed | progress | propagate | puddle | puke | purge | put across | put in | put over | quest | radiate | range | range of mountains | ray | reach | receipt | recrudesce | recur | regorge | regurgitate | relay | release | release | relegate | relieve oneself | relinquish | render | render | repeat | request | resign | retch | return | reveal | roll around | rub | run | run along | run by | saddle | saddleback | safe-conduct | safeguard | sail through | sanction | send a message | serve | shine | shit | show | sick | situation | skip | skip over | skirt | slip | snap | sneak | snuff it | sojourn | soldier | spend a penny | spew | spread | spue | squeak by | squeak through | stand out | starve | state of affairs | strike | submit | succeed | success | succumb | sudate | suffocate | summer | sunday | supervene | surpass | sweat | sweep through | synchronise | synchronize | take a crap | take a leak | take a shit | throw | throw | throw up | ticket | ticket-of-leave | top | touch | track | transfer | transgress | transit | transmit | transpire | transude | travel | traverse | trespass | trifle | trust | try | turn | turn in | turn out | upchuck | urinate | vacation | validate | vanish | vanish | void | vomit | vomit up | wanton | wanton away | wee | weekend | wee-wee | while away | whisk by | win | winter | wipe | work | yield | yielding | zip by Pass In Webster's Dictionary \Pass\, n.
In football, hockey, etc., a transfer of the ball, etc., to
another player of one's side, usually at some distance.
\Pass\, v. i. In football, hockey, etc., to make pass; to transfer the ball, etc., to another player of one's own side. \Pass\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Passed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Passing}.] [F. passer, LL. passare, fr. L. passus step, or from pandere, passum, to spread out, lay open. See {Pace}.] 1. To go; to move; to proceed; to be moved or transferred from one point to another; to make a transit; -- usually with a following adverb or adverbal phrase defining the kind or manner of motion; as, to pass on, by, out, in, etc.; to pass swiftly, directly, smoothly, etc.; to pass to the rear, under the yoke, over the bridge, across the field, beyond the border, etc. ``But now pass over [i. e., pass on].'' --Chaucer. On high behests his angels to and fro Passed frequent. --Milton. Sweet sounds rose slowly through their mouths, And from their bodies passed. --Coleridge. 2. To move or be transferred from one state or condition to another; to change possession, condition, or circumstances; to undergo transition; as, the business has passed into other hands. Others, dissatisfied with what they have, . . . pass from just to unjust. --Sir W. Temple. 3. To move beyond the range of the senses or of knowledge; to pass away; hence, to disappear; to vanish; to depart; specifically, to depart from life; to die. Disturb him not, let him pass paceably. --Shak. Beauty is a charm, but soon the charm will pass. --Dryden. The passing of the sweetest soul That ever looked with human eyes. --Tennyson. 4. To move or to come into being or under notice; to come and go in consciousness; hence, to take place; to occur; to happen; to come; to occur progressively or in succession; to be present transitorily. So death passed upon all men. --Rom. v. 12. Our own consciousness of what passes within our own mind. --I. Watts. 5. To go by or glide by, as time; to elapse; to be spent; as, their vacation passed pleasantly. Now the time is far passed. --Mark vi. 35 6. To go from one person to another; hence, to be given and taken freely; as, clipped coin will not pass; to obtain general acceptance; to be held or regarded; to circulate; to be current; -- followed by for before a word denoting value or estimation. ``Let him pass for a man.'' --Shak. False eloquence passeth only where true is not understood. --Felton. This will not pass for a fault in him. --Atterbury. 7. To advance through all the steps or stages necessary to validity or effectiveness; to be carried through a body that has power to sanction or reject; to receive legislative sanction; to be enacted; as, the resolution passed; the bill passed both houses of Congress. 8. To go through any inspection or test successfully; to be approved or accepted; as, he attempted the examination, but did not expect to pass. 9. To be suffered to go on; to be tolerated; hence, to continue; to live along. ``The play may pass.'' --Shak. 10. To go unheeded or neglected; to proceed without hindrance or opposition; as, we let this act pass. 11. To go beyond bounds; to surpass; to be in excess. [Obs.] ``This passes, Master Ford.'' --Shak. 12. To take heed; to care. [Obs.] As for these silken-coated slaves, I pass not. --Shak. 13. To go through the intestines. --Arbuthnot. 14. (Law) To be conveyed or transferred by will, deed, or other instrument of conveyance; as, an estate passes by a certain clause in a deed. --Mozley & W. 15. (Fencing) To make a lunge or pass; to thrust. 16. (Card Playing & other games) To decline to take an optional action when it is one's turn, as to decline to bid, or to bet, or to play a card; in euchre, to decline to make the trump. She would not play, yet must not pass. --Prior. 17. In football, hockey, etc., to make a pass; to transfer the ball, etc., to another player of one's own side. [Webster 1913 Suppl.] {To bring to pass}, {To come to pass}. See under {Bring}, and {Come}. {To pass away}, to disappear; to die; to vanish. ``The heavens shall pass away.'' --2 Pet. iii. 10. ``I thought to pass away before, but yet alive I am.'' --Tennyson. {To pass by}, to go near and beyond a certain person or place; as, he passed by as we stood there. {To pass into}, to change by a gradual transmission; to blend or unite with. {To pass on}, to proceed. {To pass on} or {upon}. (a) To happen to; to come upon; to affect. ``So death passed upon all men.'' --Rom. v. 12. ``Provided no indirect act pass upon our prayers to define them.'' --Jer. Taylor. (b) To determine concerning; to give judgment or sentence upon. ``We may not pass upon his life.'' --Shak. {To pass off}, to go away; to cease; to disappear; as, an agitation passes off. {To pass over}, to go from one side or end to the other; to cross, as a river, road, or bridge. \Pass\, v. t. 1. In simple, transitive senses; as: (a) To go by, beyond, over, through, or the like; to proceed from one side to the other of; as, to pass a house, a stream, a boundary, etc. (b) Hence: To go from one limit to the other of; to spend; to live through; to have experience of; to undergo; to suffer. ``To pass commodiously this life.'' --Milton. She loved me for the dangers I had passed. --Shak. (c) To go by without noticing; to omit attention to; to take no note of; to disregard. Please you that I may pass This doing. --Shak. I pass their warlike pomp, their proud array. --Dryden. (d) To transcend; to surpass; to excel; to exceed. And strive to pass . . . Their native music by her skillful art. --Spenser. Whose tender power Passes the strength of storms in their most desolate hour. --Byron. (e) To go successfully through, as an examination, trail, test, etc.; to obtain the formal sanction of, as a legislative body; as, he passed his examination; the bill passed the senate. 2. In causative senses: as: (a) To cause to move or go; to send; to transfer from one person, place, or condition to another; to transmit; to deliver; to hand; to make over; as, the waiter passed bisquit and cheese; the torch was passed from hand to hand. I had only time to pass my eye over the medals. --Addison. Waller passed over five thousand horse and foot by Newbridge. --Clarendon. (b) To cause to pass the lips; to utter; to pronounce; hence, to promise; to pledge; as, to pass sentence. --Shak. Father, thy word is passed. --Milton. (c) To cause to advance by stages of progress; to carry on with success through an ordeal, examination, or action; specifically, to give legal or official sanction to; to ratify; to enact; to approve as valid and just; as, he passed the bill through the committee; the senate passed the law. (e) To put in circulation; to give currency to; as, to pass counterfeit money. ``Pass the happy news.'' --Tennyson. (f) To cause to obtain entrance, admission, or conveyance; as, to pass a person into a theater, or over a railroad. 3. To emit from the bowels; to evacuate. 4. (Naut.) To take a turn with (a line, gasket, etc.), as around a sail in furling, and make secure. 5. (Fencing) To make, as a thrust, punto, etc. --Shak. {Passed midshipman}. See under Midshipman. {To pass a dividend}, to omit the declaration and payment of a dividend at the time when due. {To pass away}, to spend; to waste. ``Lest she pass away the flower of her age.'' --Ecclus. xlii. 9. {To pass by}. (a) To disregard; to neglect. (b) To excuse; to spare; to overlook. {To pass off}, to impose fraudulently; to palm off. ``Passed himself off as a bishop.'' --Macaulay. {To pass (something) on} or {upon (some one)}, to put upon as a trick or cheat; to palm off. ``She passed the child on her husband for a boy.'' --Dryden. {To pass over}, to overlook; not to note or resent; as, to pass over an affront. \Pass\, n. [Cf. F. pas (for sense 1), and passe, fr. passer to pass. See {Pass}, v. i.] 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. (Fencing) A thrust or push; an attempt to stab or strike an adversary. --Shak. 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. |
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