Word Meanings - PASSANT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Walking; -- said of any animal on an escutcheon, which is represented as walking with the dexter paw raised. (more info) 1. Passing from one to another; in circulation; current. Many opinions are passant. Sir T. Browne. 2. Curs On a passant rewiew

Additional info about word: PASSANT

Walking; -- said of any animal on an escutcheon, which is represented as walking with the dexter paw raised. (more info) 1. Passing from one to another; in circulation; current. Many opinions are passant. Sir T. Browne. 2. Curs On a passant rewiew of what I wrote to the bishop. Sir P. Pett. 3. Surpassing; excelling. Chaucer.

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• PASS
  passer, LL. passare, fr. L. passus step, or from pandere, passum, to 1. To go; to move; to proceed; to be moved or transferred from one point to another; to make a transit; -- usually with a following adverb or adverbal phrase defining the kind
• ANIMALIZATION
  1. The act of animalizing; the giving of animal life, or endowing with animal properties. 2. Conversion into animal matter by the process of assimilation. Owen.
• WALK-MILL
  A fulling mill. Halliwell.
• ANIMALCULISM
  The theory which seeks to explain certain physiological and pathological by means of animalcules.
• ANOTHER-GUESS
  Of another sort. It used to go in another-guess manner. Arbuthnot.
• ANIMALITY
  Animal existence or nature. Locke.
• PASSOVER
  A feast of the Jews, instituted to commemorate the sparing of the Hebrews in Egypt, when God, smiting the firstborn of the Egyptians, passed over the houses of the Israelites which were marked with the blood of a lamb. The sacrifice offered at
• PASSUS
  A division or part; a canto; as, the passus of Piers Plowman. See 2d Fit.
• REPRESENTABLE
  Capable of being represented.
• RAISE
  To create or constitute; as, to raise a use that is, to create it. Burrill. To raise a blockade , to remove or break up a blockade, either by withdrawing the ships or forces employed in enforcing it, or by driving them away or dispersing them.
• ANIMALLY
  Physically. G. Eliot.
• ANIMALNESS
  Animality.
• RAISED
  1. Lifted up; showing above the surroundings; as, raised or embossed metal work. 2. Leavened; made with leaven, or yeast; -- used of bread, cake, etc., as distinguished from that made with cream of tartar, soda, etc. See Raise, v. t., 4. Raised
• PASSIBILITY
  The quality or state of being passible; aptness to feel or suffer; sensibility. Hakewill.
• REPRESENTANT
  Appearing or acting for another; representing.
• DEXTERITY
  1. Right-handedness. 2. Readiness and grace in physical activity; skill and ease in using the hands; expertness in manual acts; as, dexterity with the chisel. In youth quick bearing and dexterity. Shak. 3. Readiness in the use or control of the
• PASSIONAL
  Of or pertaining to passion or the passions; exciting, influenced by, or ministering to, the passions. -- n.
• PASSIVE FLIGHT
  Flight, such as gliding and soaring, accomplished without the use of motive power.
• ESCUTCHEON
  The surface, usually a shield, upon which bearings are marshaled and displayed. The surface of the escutcheon is called the field, the upper part is called the chief, and the lower part the base . That side of the escutcheon which is on the right
• RAIS
  See REIS
• APPRAISER
  One who appraises; esp., a person appointed and sworn to estimate and fix the value of goods or estates.
• DIRECT CURRENT
  A current flowing in one direction only; -- distinguished from alternating current. When steady and not pulsating a direct current is often called a continuous current. A direct induced current, or momentary current of the same direction as the
• COMPASSIONATELY
  In a compassionate manner; mercifully. Clarendon.
• LIVRAISON
  A part of a book or literary composition printed and delivered by itself; a number; a part.
• SHOPWALKER
  One who walks about in a shop as an overseer and director. Cf. Floorwalker.
• JAPAN CURRENT
  A branch of the equatorial current of the Pacific, washing the eastern coast of Formosa and thence flowing northeastward past Japan and merging into the easterly drift of the North Pacific; -- called also Kuro-Siwo, or Black Stream, in allusion
• HEBRAIST
  One versed in the Hebrew language and learning.
• MISRAISE
  To raise or exite unreasonable. "Misraised fury." Bp. Hall.
• PRAISEWORTHINESS
  The quality or state of being praiseworthy.
• SURPASS
  To go beyond in anything good or bad; to exceed; to excel. This would surpass Common revenge and interrupt his joy. Milton. Syn. -- To exceed; excel; outdo; outstrip.
• PHASING CURRENT
  The momentary current between two alternating-current generators when juxtaposed in parallel and not agreeing exactly in phase or period.
• ALTERNATING CURRENT
  A current which periodically changes or reverses its direction of flow.