PASSPORT
Pass"port (, n. Etym: [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 (. Etym: [L., a step, a pace.
See Pace.]
Defn: A division or part; a canto; as, the passus of Piers Plowman.
See 2d Fit.
PASSWORD
Pass"word`, n.
Defn: A word to be given before a person is allowed to pass; a watchword; a countersign. Macaulay.
PASSYMEASURE
Pas"sy*meas`ure, n. Etym: [Corrupted fr. It. passamezzo.] [Obs.]