Emily Dickinson Lexicon

PASS, n. [W. pâs.]

1. A narrow passage, entrance or avenue; a narrow or difficult place of entrance and exit; as, a pass between mountains. – Encyc. Clarendon.
2. A passage; a road. – Ralegh.
3. Permission to pass, to go or to come; a license to pass; a passport. A gentleman had a pass to go beyond the seas. – Clarendon. A ship sailing under the flag and pass of an enemy agent. – Kent.
4. An order for sending vagrants and impotent persons to their place of abode. – Johnson.
5. In fencing and fighting, a thrust; a push; attempt to stab or strike; as, to make a pass at an antagonist.
6. State; condition or extreme case; extremity. To what a pass are our minds brought. – Sidney. Matters have been brought to this pass. – South.