Passage: m. A passage, a strait; a way, path, pace, course; a passing, a gate, going, or winding; also, a paßage, entrie, or comming to a place; also, a passe, pasport, safe-conduct, or licence giuen for the free passage, trauell, or transportation of; also, a peece, clause, text, place of, or passage in, a booke; also, musicall diuision, or warbling; and (in Riding) a limitted pace of schoole either forward, or backward. Faulcon de passage. A Passenger. Lettre de passage. A Paße, or Paße-port, &c, (as in Passage.) Haut passage. An Jmposition of vij d in the pound vpon Woolls, Clothes, Linnen, Canuasses, and other such marchandize. Faire le passage. To prepare fruit (which is to be preserued) for the receiuing of Sugar, by boyling it in cleere water, vntill it be so tender that a pinne pricked into it cannot fetch it vp any height, or hold it vp any while.
Passager: m. A Ferryman; also, a passenger, traueller, way-faring man.
Passager: m. ere: f. Transitorie, passing, shifting, flitting vncertaine, vnsteadie, remouing often, euer changing places, most giddie, alwayes gadding vp and downe. Colombe passagere. A Pigeon thats bred betweene a tame, and a wild one. Faulcon passager. A Passenger. Nef passagere. An ordinarie Passage-boat, or Ship.
Passager. To passe, proceed, runne, or goe on; to flit, remoue often, euer be shifting of abode, alwayes be gadding vp and downe. Passager, & varier la voix. To warble, or diuide, in singing, &c.
Passageur: m. A Ferryman.
Passagier. as Passager. Passant: m. A passenger, traueller, wayfaring man. Passans. Paßengers, &c; also, the rings through which the cords of a Cauesson passe. Les passans d'un boucle. The two holes of a buckle.
Passant: m. ante: f. Passing, going, wending, trauelling along; also, straining; also, passant, currant, verie tollerable. En passant. Sleightly, lightly, cursarily, accidentally, by the way.
Passature: m. A strayning; also, the thing thats strayned.
Passé: m. Time, accidents, occurrences, or things, past.
Passe: f. A Henne Sparrow; also, as Passerille; also, the racke of a Crosse-bow; also, the Jron Goale, or Arche, at Palemaille. Passe de bois. The little brambling, or mountaine Spinke. Passe de Canarie. A Canarie bird. Passe solitaire. A little black-browne Owsell (or bird like an Owsell) thats euer alone, or if in any companie, with Sparrowes, among stone walls, or on the tops of houses, where sometime she singeth prettily. Arbalestes de passe. The greatest sort of (rack-bent) Crosse-bowes. Biais passe. A bias gate, or doore, tearmed so by work-*men.
Passé: m. ée: f. Past, passed, gone; surpassed, exceeded; ouerslipt, omitted; ouergone; also, transported or ferried, carried or conueighed ouer; also, strayned through; also, decayed, farre spent, faded, withered, wrinckled, in the wane, past the best; also, deceased, departed;
quite vanished away. Passé par les armes. Shot to death; or, executed by passing the pikes. Ie suis passé. J am gone, or ouercast, J haue throwne ouer, at Bowles, &c. On s'en fut bien passé. One might haue beene with-*out it verie well.
Passe-caille: m. See Cailles. Passe-chevaux: m. A Horse-boat.
Passe-dix. Such a Game as our Passage.
Passe-droict: m. A resignation, or graunt of right; also, a courtesie or fauor done, a gift or salarie bestowed, beyond merit, or aboue ones due. Il m'a faict vn grand passe-droict. He takes not of me the extremitie of Law, he hath dealt verie kindly with me.
Passée: f. A passage, course, passing along. La passée. A manner of catching little birds, by sticking lyme-twigs, and placing liue birds in cages, among the boughes of trees, purposely set vp, or such as vsually they passe by. Les passées d'un Cerf. His racke, or paßages; the places which he hath gone through, or by. Les passées du mois. The disbursements for Court-Acates omitted, and not set downe, vntill the last day of the month.
Passefilé: m. ée: f. Curled, frizled, entrammelled, as out-drawne locks of haire.
Passe-fillons: m. Small eare-lockes, or curled lockes drawne out on either side; hence, any frizled lockes, or entrammelled tufts of haire.
Passefillonné: m. ée: f. as Passefilé. Passe-fin: m. Excellent fine cloth.
Passe-fleur: f. The Paßeflower, bastard Anemone, or Windflower; also, red or purple Camomill, red Maths, Rosearubie, Adonis red flower; called Passe-flower by the Translator of Dodoneus. Passe-martel de temps. A merrie sport, or pastime, wherewith time (in a time of cares) is driuen away.
Passement: m. A passing, pacing, going; an ouerpassing; a transporting, a carrying, or conueying ouer; also, a strayning through; also, a lace, or lacing. Passement de tesmoings. An examination of witnesses.
Passementé: m. ée: f. Laced.
Passementer. To lace.
Passementier: m. A Lace-maker, a Silke-weauer.
Passe-par-tout. Vn p. A resolute fellow; one that goes through-stitch with euerie thing he vndertakes; one whose courses no danger can stop, no difficultie stay. Vne passe-par-tout. A double key, that opens all the dores in the Court.
Passe-passée: f. Heypasse, repaße; a iugling tricke, or tearme.
Passe-pied: m. A caper, or loftie tricke in dauncing; also, a kind of daunce, peculiar to the youth of La haute Bretaigne. Passe-poil: m. A snipped, or iagged welt of Taffata, &c, in a garment.
Passe-pomme: f. The Pome-paradice, Honny-apple, or Honny-meale; (an apple thats quickly ripe, and quickly rotten.)
Passe-port: m. A Paße, Paße-port, or Safe-conduct. Elle a son passe-port. She hath somewhat about her that makes her way wheresoeuer she goes; (Said of a light, and wandering huswife.)
Passe-porte: f. A bill of lading.
Passe-prouësse. Passing valiant, exceeding valorous,
