2. (Man.) A turn or course of a horse backward or forward on the same spot of ground.
Passage
(Pas"sage) n. [F. passage. See Pass, v. i.]
1. The act of passing; transit from one place to another; movement from point to point; a going by, over,
across, or through; as, the passage of a man or a carriage; the passage of a ship or a bird; the passage
of light; the passage of fluids through the pores or channels of the body.
What! are my doors opposed against my passage!
Shak. 2. Transit by means of conveyance; journey, as by water, carriage, car, or the like; travel; right, liberty, or
means, of passing; conveyance.
The ship in which he had taken passage.
Macaulay. 3. Price paid for the liberty to pass; fare; as, to pay one's passage.
4. Removal from life; decease; departure; death. [R.] "Endure thy mortal passage." Milton.
When he is fit and season'd for his passage.
Shak. 5. Way; road; path; channel or course through or by which one passes; way of exit or entrance; way of
access or transit. Hence, a common avenue to various apartments in a building; a hall; a corridor.
And with his pointed dart
Explores the nearest passage to his heart.
Dryden.
The Persian army had advanced into the . . . passages of Cilicia.
South. 6. A continuous course, process, or progress; a connected or continuous series; as, the passage of time.
The conduct and passage of affairs.
Sir J. Davies.
The passage and whole carriage of this action.
Shak. 7. A separate part of a course, process, or series; an occurrence; an incident; an act or deed. "In thy
passages of life." Shak.
The . . . almost incredible passage of their unbelief.
South. 8. A particular portion constituting a part of something continuous; esp., a portion of a book, speech, or
musical composition; a paragraph; a clause.
How commentators each dark passage shun.
Young. 9. Reception; currency. [Obs.] Sir K. Digby.
10. A pass or en encounter; as, a passage at arms.
No passages of love
Betwixt us twain henceforward evermore.
Tennyson. 11. A movement or an evacuation of the bowels.
12. In parliamentary proceedings: (a) The course of a proposition (bill, resolution, etc.) through the
several stages of consideration and action; as, during its passage through Congress the bill was amended
in both Houses. (b) The advancement of a bill or other proposition from one stage to another by an
