Word Meanings - PASSUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A division or part; a canto; as, the passus of Piers Plowman. See 2d Fit.

Related words: (words related to PASSUS)

• CANTON FLANNEL
  See FLANNEL
• PASSUS
  A division or part; a canto; as, the passus of Piers Plowman. See 2d Fit.
• DIVISIONARY
  Divisional.
• DIVISIONALLY
  So as to be divisional.
• CANTONIZE
  To divide into cantons or small districts.
• CANTOR
  A singer; esp. the leader of a church choir; a precentor. The cantor of the church intones the Te Deum. Milman.
• CANTO
  The highest vocal part; the air or melody in choral music; anciently the tenor, now the soprano. Canto fermo ( Etym: , the plain ecclesiastical chant in cathedral service; the plain song. (more info) 1. One of the chief divisions of a long poem;
• DIVISIONAL
  That divides; pas, a divisional line; a divisional general; a divisional surgeon of police. Divisional planes , planes of separation between rock masses. They include joints.
• CANTORAL
  Of or belonging to a cantor. Cantoral staff, the official staff or baton of a cantor or precentor, with which time is marked for the singers.
• CANTORIS
  Of or pertaining to a cantor; as, the cantoris side of a choir; a cantoris stall. Shipley.
• CANTONMENT
  A town or village, or part of a town or village, assigned to a body of troops for quarters; temporary shelter or place of rest for an army; quarters. Note: When troops are sheltered in huts or quartered in the houses of the people during
• CANTONAL
  Of or pertaining to a canton or cantons; of the nature of a canton.
• DIVISIONOR
  One who divides or makes division. Sheldon.
• DIVISION
  The process of finding how many times one number or quantity is contained in another; the reverse of multiplication; also, the rule by which the operation is performed. (more info) 1. The act or process of diving anything into parts, or the state
• PLOWMAN; PLOUGHMAN
  1. One who plows, or who holds and guides a plow; hence, a husbandman. Chaucer. Macaulay. 2. A rustic; a countryman; a field laborer. Plowman's spikenard , a European composite weed , having fragrant roots. Dr. Prior.
• CANTON
  A song or canto Write loyal cantons of contemned love. Shak.
• CANTON CRAPE
  A soft, white or colored silk fabric, of a gauzy texture and wavy appearance, used for ladies' scarfs, shawls, bonnet trimmings, etc.; -- called also Oriental crape. De Colange.
• CANTONED
  Having a charge in each of the four corners; -- said of a cross on a shield, and also of the shield itself.
• CANTOON
  A cotton stuff showing a fine cord on one side and a satiny surface on the other.
• MISDIVISION
  Wrong division.
• INDIVISION
  A state of being not divided; oneness. Bp. Hall.
• INCANTON
  To unite to, or form into, a canton or separate community. Addison.