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Passer

noun

A person who passes by casually or by chance. Synonyms: passer-by, passerby.

A person who passes as a member of a different ethnic or racial group.

A student who passes an examination.

(football) a ball carrier who tries to gain ground by throwing a forward pass. Synonym: forward passer.

Type genus of the Passeridae. Synonym: genus Passer.

Pass

adjective

Of advancing the ball by throwing it. Synonym: passing. "A pass play"

Passe

adjective

Out of fashion. Synonyms: antique, demode, ex, old-fashioned, old-hat, outmoded, passee. "Demode (or outmoded) attire" , "Outmoded ideas"

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... Sept. 13/23 1686. "La succession est une matiere fort delicate a traiter. Je sais pourtant qu'on en parle au Roy d'Angleterre, et qu'on ne desespere pas avec le temps de trouver des moyens pour faire passer la couronne sur la tete d'un ...

— The History of England from the Accession of James II. - Volume 2 (of 5) • Thomas Babington Macaulay

... even of his physical characteristics—his voice and his hair—as though these belonged to the one man of his time whose food was ambrosia. Even as a boy at Christ's Hospital, according to Lamb, he used to make the "casual passer through the Cloisters stand still, intranced with admiration (while he weighed the disproportion between the speech and the garb of the young Mirandola), to hear thee unfold, in thy deep and sweet intonations, the mysteries ...

— The Art of Letters • Robert Lynd

... carried between the toes of a snipe! - and such feathered and furred agents as feed on berries and other fruits sometimes drop the seeds a thousand miles from the parent. but it will be noticed that such vagabonds as travel by the hook or by crook method, getting a lift in the world frpm every passer-by -.burdocks, beggar-ticks, cleavers, pitchforks, Spanish needles, and scores of similar tramps that we pick off our clothing after every walk in autumn - make, perhaps, the most successful travelers on the globe. The hound's ...

— Wild Flowers, An Aid to Knowledge of Our Wild Flowers and - Their Insect Visitors - - Title: Nature's Garden • Neltje Blanchan

... return for a rabbit-chase with his hounds, which we gladly accepted and afterward enjoyed. This was typical of eastern Virginia and her hospitable, whole-souled "Tuckahoes," whose houses were never too full for them to hail a passer-by and compel him to come in. This interruption detracted nothing from the pleasure of the visit for which we had ...

— The Story of a Cannoneer Under Stonewall Jackson • Edward A. Moore

... the street and brings the police to the spot. At other times there is a rush of human beings and a wild cry of "stop thief," and the throng sweeps rapidly down the side-walk overturning street stands, and knocking the unwary passer-by off his feet, in its mad chase after some unseen thief. Beggars line the side-walk, many of them professing the most hopeless blindness, but with eyes keen enough to tell the difference between the coins tossed into their hats. The ...

— Lights and Shadows of New York Life - or, the Sights and Sensations of the Great City • James D. McCabe

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