Passport
(Pass"port) n. [F. passeport, orig., a permission to leave a port or to sail into it; passer to
pass + port a port, harbor. See Pass, and Port a harbor.]
1. Permission to pass; a document given by the competent officer of a state, permitting the person therein
named to pass or travel from place to place, without molestation, by land or by water.
Caution in granting passports to Ireland.
Clarendon. 2. A document carried by neutral merchant vessels in time of war, to certify their nationality and protect
them from belligerents; a sea letter.
3. A license granted in time of war for the removal of persons and effects from a hostile country; a safe-
conduct. Burrill.
4. Figuratively: Anything which secures advancement and general acceptance. Sir P. Sidney.
His passport is his innocence and grace.
Dryden. Passus
(||Pas"sus) n.; pl. L. Passus, E. Passuses [L., a step, a pace. See Pace.] A division or
part; a canto; as, the passus of Piers Plowman. See 2d Fit.
Password
(Pass"word`) n. A word to be given before a person is allowed to pass; a watchword; a countersign.
Macaulay.
Passymeasure
(Pas"sy*meas`ure) n. [Corrupted fr. It. passamezzo.] [Obs.] See Paspy. Shak.
Past
(Past) a. [From Pass, v.] Of or pertaining to a former time or state; neither present nor future; gone
by; elapsed; ended; spent; as, past troubles; past offences. "Past ages." Milton.
Past master. See under Master.
Past
(Past), n. A former time or state; a state of things gone by. "The past, at least, is secure." D. Webster.
The present is only intelligible in the light of the past, often a very remote past indeed.
Trench. Past
(Past), prep.
1. Beyond, in position, or degree; further than; beyond the reach or influence of. "Who being past feeling."
Eph. iv. 19. "Galled past endurance." Macaulay.
Until we be past thy borders.
Num. xxi. 22.
Love, when once past government, is consequently past shame.
L'Estrange.
2. Beyond, in time; after; as, past the hour.
Is it not past two o'clock?
Shak. 3. Above; exceeding; more than. [R.]
Not past three quarters of a mile.
Shak.
Bows not past three quarters of a yard long.
Spenser. Past
(Past) adv. By; beyond; as, he ran past.
The alarum of drums swept past.
Longfellow.
