PASSOVER, a solemn festival of the Jews, celebrated on the fourteenth day of the month next after the vernal equinox, and instituted in commemoration of their coming out of Egypt; because on the night before their departure the destroying angel, who put to death the first born of the Egyptians, passed over the houses of the Hebrews, which were sprinkled with the blood of a lamb. The whole
transaction is related in the twelfth chapter of Exodus. PASS PAROLE, a command given at the head of an army, and thence communicated to the rear by passing it from mouth to mouth.