passage

To pass or cross.

To walk sidewise: said of a saddle-horse. See the quotation.

In the manège, the movement of a horse when passaging; an advance sideways in obedience to the pressure of the rider’s leg: a very showy movement, often executed in a march past.

A passing or moving from one place or state to another; movement, transit, or transference from point to point, place to place, state to state, hand to hand, etc.; a moving or going by, over, along, or through: as, the passage of a ship or of a bird; the passage of something through a tube or a sieve; the passage of the sunlight through the clouds.

A journey in some conveyance, especially a ship; a voyage.

A way or course through or by which a person or thing may pass; a path or way by which transit may be effected; means of entrance, exit, or transit; an avenue, channel, or path leading from one place to another, such as a narrow street or lane, an alley, a pass over a mountain or a ford over a river, a channel, a strait connecting two bodies of water, a ferry, etc.: as, the passages of Jordan (Judges xii. 6); the Gilolo passage in the Malay archipelago; the air-passages of the body.

Specifically An avenue or alley leading to the various divisions or apartments in a building; a gallery or corridor; a hall.

In some European cities, a section of a public street, or a short independent street, roofed in with glass, having shops on both sides, and usually or always closed to vehicles: as, the Passage du Havre in Paris.

Passage-money; fare; ferriage; toll; price paid for passing or for being carried between two points or places.

Liberty or power of passing; access; entry or exit.