Part 351

PAS cadencé, Fr. Cadenced step.

Doubler le PAS, Fr. to double your step or pace: to go faster.

Forcer le PAS, Fr. to make a forced march.

PAS alongé, Fr. a lengthened step.

Alonger le PAS, Fr. to step out.

Diminuer le PAS, Fr. To step short.

Hâter le PAS, Fr. to slacken your pace; to go slower.

Marcher à grands PAS, Fr. To move rapidly.

Marcher à petits PAS, Fr. to step short, or move leisurely.

Retourner sur ses PAS, Fr. To go back.

Avoir le PAS, Fr. To have the precedency.

PAS de souris, Fr. Degrees or steps which are made in different parts of the circumference of the counterscarp. They serve to keep up a communication between works when the ditch is dry, and are generally made in the rentrant angles of the counterscarp, and in the rentrant angles of the outworks. There are likewise steps or degrees of this sort at some distance from the glacis.

PAS, Fr. Any strait or channel of water between two separate lands.

PAS de Calais, Fr. The straits between Calais and Dover.

PAS, likewise signifies any narrow pass. Le pas des Thermopyles. The pass of Thermopylæ.

Defendre le PAS, Fr. To defend the pass or strait.

Francher le PAS, Fr. To determine upon a thing after some hesitation.

PAS d’ane, Fr. A sword-guard, which covers the whole hand, or basket hilt. Une garde à pas d’ane.

PAS d’ane, Fr. This word likewise means a curb or snaffle.

PASS, in a military sense, a strait, difficult, and narrow passage, which shuts up the entrance into a country.

PASS, a voucher for the absence of a non-commissioned officer or soldier, in the following form:

By ---- commanding the ---- regiment of U. S. Infantry, stationed at ----.

Permit the bearer hereof ---- in ---- company of the abovementioned regiment, to pass from hence to ---- and to return to quarters at or before ---- o’clock.

Given under my hand at ---- this ---- day of ---- .

To all whom it may concern.

PASS, PASSADO, in fencing, a push or thrust upon your adversary.

PASS, (passade, Fr.) in fencing, a leap or advance upon the enemy.

To PASS, to march by open order of columns, for the purpose of saluting a reviewing general. Each division or company (on its march) will open its ranks at 20 paces distance from the general, and again close them, after it has passed 15 paces. The whole march in slow time, till the leading division arrives at the spot where the left of the battalion originally stood. The commanding officer then halts the regiment, the music ceases to play, and the different divisions with supported arms march in quick time until they have completed the third wheel from the ground of original formation; when arms are ordered to be carried, the music plays, and as each division completes the third wheel, the officers shift to the right, and the whole pass the general.