Pas de souris, Fr. Degrees or steps which are made in different parts of the circumference of the counterscarp. They serve to keep up a communication between works when the ditch is dry, and are generally made in the rentrant angles of the counterscarp, and in the rentrant angles of the outworks. There are likewise steps or degrees of this sort at some distance from the glacis.
Pas, Fr. Any strait or channel of water between two separate lands.
Pas de Calais, Fr. The straits between Calais and Dover.
Pas, likewise signifies any narrow pass. Le pas des Thermopyles. The pass of Thermopylæ.
Defendre le Pas, Fr. To defend the pass or strait.
Francher le Pas, Fr. To determine upon a thing after some hesitation.
Pas d’ane, Fr. A sword-guard, which covers the whole hand, or basket hilt. Une garde à pas d’ane.
Pas d’ane, Fr. This word likewise means a curb or snaffle.
PASS, in a military sense, a strait, difficult, and narrow passage, which shuts up the entrance into a country.
PASS, a voucher for the absence of a non-commissioned officer or soldier, in the following form: