Emily Dickinson Lexicon

PASS, v.t.

1. To go beyond. The sun has passed the meridian. The young man has not passed the age of frivolousness.
2. To go through or over; as, to pass a river.
3. To spend; to live through; as, to pass time; to pass the night in revelry, and the day in sleep.
4. To cause to move; to send; as, to pass the bottle from one guest to another; to pass a pauper from one town to another; to pass a rope round a yard; to pass the blood from the right to the left ventricle of the heart. – Derham.
5. To cause to move hastily. I had only time to pass my eye over the medals, which are in great number. – Addison.
6. To transfer from one owner to another; to sell or assign; as, to pass land from A. to B. by deed; to pass a note or bill.
7. To strain; to cause to percolate; as, to pass wine through a filter. – Bacon.
8. To utter; to pronounce; as, to pass compliments; to pass sentence or judgment; to pass censure on another's works. – Watts.
9. To procure or cause to go. Waller passed over five thousand horse and foot by Newbridge. – Clarendon.
10. To put an end to. This night We'll pass the business privately and well. – Shak.
11. To omit; to neglect either to do or to mention. I pass their warlike pomp, their proud array. – Dryden.
12. To transcend; to transgress or go beyond; as, to pass the bounds of moderation.
13. To admit; to allow; to approve and receive as valid or just; as, to pass an account at the war-office.
14. To approve or sanction by a constitutional or legal majority of votes; as, the house of representatives passed the bill. Hence,
15. To enact; to carry through all the forms necessary to give validity; as, the legislature passed the bill into a law.
16. To impose fraudulently; as, she passed the child on her husband for a boy. – Dryden.
17. To practice artfully; to cause to succeed; as, to pass a trick on one.
18. To surpass; to excel; to exceed.
19. To thrust; to make a push in fencing. To see thee fight, to see thee pass thy puncto. – Shak. To pass away, to spend; to waste; as, to pass away the flower of life in idleness. To pass by, to pass near and beyond. #2. To overlook; to excuse; to forgive; not to censure or punish; as, to pass by a crime or fault. #3. To neglect; to disregard. Certain passages of Scripture we can not pass by without injury to truth. – Burnet. To pass over, to move from side to side; to cross; as, to pass over a river or mountain. #2. To omit; to overlook or disregard. He passed over one charge without a reply.