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. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

I love a sea voyage and a blustering tempest. J. Fletcher. [ 1913 Webster ]

So steers the prudent crane
Her annual voyage, borne on winds. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

All the voyage of their life
Is bound in shallows and in miseries. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The act or practice of traveling. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Nations have interknowledge of one another by voyage into foreign parts, or strangers that come to them. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Course; way. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

A mind forever
Voyaging through strange seas of thought alone. Wordsworth. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To travel; to pass over; to traverse. [ 1913 Webster ]

With what pain
[ I ] voyaged the unreal, vast, unbounded deep. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. voyageable. ] That may be sailed over, as water or air; navigable. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. voyager traveling. ] One who voyages; one who sails or passes by sea or water. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ F., fr. voyager to travel. See Voyage. ] A traveler; -- applied in Canada to a man employed by the fur companies in transporting goods by the rivers and across the land, to and from the remote stations in the Northwest. [ 1913 Webster ]