PASSPORT

passport. Passport, n. a permission in writing to pass or go

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Pass″port (�), n. [[F. passeport, orig., a permission to leave a port or to sail into it; passer to pass + port a port, harbor. See Pass, and Port a harbor.]] 1. 1. Permission to pass; a document given by the competent officer of a state, permitting the person therein named to pass or travel from place to place, without molestation, by land or by water.
Caution in granting passports to Ireland. Clarendon. 2. 2. A document carried by neutral merchant vessels in time of war, to certify their nationality and protect them from belligerents; a sea letter.
3. 3. A license granted in time of war for the removal of persons and effects from a hostile country; a safe-conduct. Burrill.
4. 4. Figuratively: Anything which secures advancement and general acceptance. Sir P. Sidney.
His passport is his innocence and grace. Dryden.