Pass v. t.
 1. In simple, transitive senses; as: (a) To go by, beyond, over, through, or the like; to proceed from one side to the other of; as, to pass a house, a stream, a boundary, etc. (b) Hence: To go from one limit to the other of; to spend; to live through; to have experience of; to undergo; to suffer. “To pass commodiously this life.”
    She loved me for the dangers I had passed.   --Shak.
 (c) To go by without noticing; to omit attention to; to take no note of; to disregard.
    Please you that I may pass This doing.   --Shak.
    I pass their warlike pomp, their proud array.   --Dryden.
 (d) To transcend; to surpass; to excel; to exceed.
 And strive to pass . . .
 Their native music by her skillful art.   --Spenser.
 Whose tender power
 Passes the strength of storms in their most desolate hour.   --Byron.
 (e) To go successfully through, as an examination, trail, test, etc.; to obtain the formal sanction of, as a legislative body; as, he passed his examination; the bill passed the senate.
 2. In causative senses: as: (a) To cause to move or go; to send; to transfer from one person, place, or condition to another; to transmit; to deliver; to hand; to make over; as, the waiter passed bisquit and cheese; the torch was passed from hand to hand.
    I had only time to pass my eye over the medals.   --Addison.
    Waller passed over five thousand horse and foot by Newbridge.   --Clarendon.
 (b) To cause to pass the lips; to utter; to pronounce; hence, to promise; to pledge; as, to pass sentence.
    Father, thy word is passed.   --Milton.
 (c) To cause to advance by stages of progress; to carry on with success through an ordeal, examination, or action; specifically, to give legal or official sanction to; to ratify; to enact; to approve as valid and just; as, he passed the bill through the committee; the senate passed the law. (e) To put in circulation; to give currency to; as, to pass counterfeit money. “Pass the happy news.” --Tennyson. (f) To cause to obtain entrance, admission, or conveyance; as, to pass a person into a theater, or over a railroad.
 3. To emit from the bowels; to evacuate.
 4. Naut. To take a turn with (a line, gasket, etc.), as around a sail in furling, and make secure.
 5. Fencing To make, as a thrust, punto, etc.
 Passed midshipman. See under Midshipman.
 To pass a dividend, to omit the declaration and payment of a dividend at the time when due.
 To pass away, to spend; to waste. “Lest she pass away the flower of her age.” --Ecclus. xlii. 9.
 To pass by. (a) To disregard; to neglect. (b) To excuse; to spare; to overlook.
 To pass off, to impose fraudulently; to palm off. “Passed himself off as a bishop.” --Macaulay.
 To pass (something) on (some one) or To pass (something) upon (some one), to put upon as a trick or cheat; to palm off. “She passed the child on her husband for a boy.” --Dryden.
 To pass over, to overlook; not to note or resent; as, to pass over an affront.