or PASSAGE, in fencing, an advance or leap forward upon the enemy. Of these there are several kinds; as passes within, above, beneath, to the right, the left, and passes under the line, &c. The measure of the pass is when the swords are so near as that they may touch one another.

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

Pass Parole, in military affairs, a command given at the head of an army, and thence communicated to the rear, by passing it from mouth to mouth.