Hypertext Webster Gateway: "voyage"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Voyage \Voy"age\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Voyaged}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Voyaging}.] [Cf. F. voyager.]
To take a voyage; especially, to sail or pass by water.
A mind forever Voyaging through strange seas of thought
alone. --Wordsworth.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Voyage \Voy"age\, v. t.
To travel; to pass over; to traverse.
With what pain [I] voyaged the unreal, vast, unbounded
deep. --Milton.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Voyage \Voy"age\ (?; 48), n. [OE. veage, viage, OF. veage,
viage, veiage, voiage, F. voyage, LL. viaticum, fr. L.
viaticum traveling money, provision for a journey, from
viaticus belonging to a road or journey, fr. via way, akin to
E. way. See {Way}, n., and cf. {Convey}, {Deviate},
{Devious}, {Envoy}, {Trivial}, {Viaduct}, {Viaticum}.]
1. Formerly, a passage either by sea or land; a journey, in
general; but not chiefly limited to a passing by sea or
water from one place, port, or country, to another;
especially, a passing or journey by water to a distant
place or country.
I love a sea voyage and a blustering tempest. --J.
Fletcher.
So steers the prudent crane Her annual voyage, borne
on winds. --Milton.
All the voyage of their life Is bound in shallows
and in miseries. --Shak.
2. The act or practice of traveling. [Obs.]
Nations have interknowledge of one another by voyage
into foreign parts, or strangers that come to them.
--Bacon.
3. Course; way. [Obs.] --Shak.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
voyage
n 1: an act of traveling by water [syn: {ocean trip}]
2: a journey to some distant place
v : travel by boat on a boat propelled by wind or by other
means; "The QE2 will sail to Southampton tomorrow" [syn:
{sail}, {navigate}]
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