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Any right line passing through the center of a figure or body, as a circle, conic section, sphere, cube, etc., and terminated by the opposite boundaries; a straight line which bisects a system of parallel chords drawn in a curve.

• Systematology
  The doctrine of, or a treatise upon, systems.
• Passant
  Passing from one to another; in circulation; current.
• Through
  From end to end of, or from side to side of; from one surface or limit of, to the opposite; into and out of at the opposite, or at another, point; as, to bore through a piece of timber, or through a board; a ball passes through the side of a ship.
• Passiflora
  A genus of plants, including the passion flower. It is the type of the order Passifloreae, which includes about nineteen genera and two hundred and fifty species.
• PARALLELVISE
  A vise with jaws so guided as to remain parallel.
• Passiveness
  The quality or state of being passive; unresisting submission.
• RIGHTLINED
  Formed by right lines; rectilineal; as, a right-lined angle.
• Right-about
  A turning directly about by the right, so as to face in the opposite direction; also, the quarter directly opposite; as, to turn to the right-about.
• Right-lined
  Formed by right lines; rectilineal; as, a right-lined angle.
• Conicality
  Conicalness.
• Sectionize
  To form into sections.
• Figurehead
  The figure, statue, or bust, on the prow of a ship.
• Straight-out
  Acting without concealment, obliquity, or compromise; hence, unqualified; thoroughgoing.
• Parallelogrammical
  Having the properties of a parallelogram.
• Parallelopiped
  A solid, the faces of which are six parallelograms, the opposite pairs being parallel, and equal to each other; a prism whose base is a parallelogram.
• Systemic
  Of or relating to a system; common to a system; as, the systemic circulation of the blood.
• Throughly
  Thoroughly.
• Passim
  Here and there; everywhere; as, this word occurs passim in the poem.
• PASSACAGLIAPASSACAGLIO
  An old Italian or Spanish dance tune, in slow three-four measure, with divisions on a ground bass, resembling a chaconne.

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