pace 
9f. Course; direction. 
But William perceyued what pas the king went, 
And hastili hised after and him of-toke. 
William of Paler ite (E. E. T. S.), 1. 3915. 
10f. A space; while. 
Lystyn a lytyl pas. 
Political Poems, etc. (ed. Furnivall), p. 245. 
1 If. A part of a poem or tale ; passage ; passus. 
Thus passed is the first pas of this pris tale. 
William of Palerne (E. E. T. S.), 1. 161. 
12. A part of a floor slightly raised above the 
general level; a dais; a broad step or slightly 
raised space above some level, especially about 
a tomb. 
Marble Foot paces to the Chimneys, Sash, Windows, 
glaised with flue Crown Glass, large half Pace Stairs, that 
2 People may go up on a Breast. 
Quoted in Ashton's Social Life in Reign of Queen Anne, 
13f. A herd or company of beasts : as, & pace of 
asses. Strutt, Sports and Pastimes, p. 80. Al- 
derman's pace. See alderman. Day- tale pace. See 
day-tale. Geometrical pace. See geometric. Great 
pace. See def. 2. To keep or hold pace with, to keep 
up with ; go or move as fast as : literally or figuratively. 
Now that the Sun and the Spring advance daily toward 
us more and more, I hope your Health will keep pace with 
them. Howell, Letters, iv. 45. 
If riches increase, let thy mind hold pace with them. 
Sir T. Browne, Christ Mor., i. 5. 
Hope may with my strong desire keep pace. 
Wordsworth, Sonnets, i. 24. 
pace 1 (pas), v.; pret. and -pp. paced, ppr. pacing. 
[< ME. pacen, pace, pass: see pace, n., and cf. 
pass, v. Pace 1 , v., is now used with ref. only to 
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pachydermatous 
Thick-headed Shrike {Pachycephala 
In Lancashire, young people fantastically dressed, armed 
with wooden or tin swords, and their faces smeared, go 
from house to house, at each of which, if permitted, they 
perform a sort of drama. The performers are called Pace 
Egyers. Hampton, Medii JEvi Kalendarium, I. 202. 
pace-eggs (pas'egz), . pi [< paces + eggs.'] 
Easter eggs; eggs boiled hard and dyed or 
stained various colors, given to children about 
the time of Easter. Halliwell. 
In Scotland, and the North of England generally, it is 
customary to boil eggs hard, and after dyeing or staining 
them of various colours to give them to the children for 
toys on Easter Sunday. In these places children ask for 
their Pace Eyija, as they are termed, at this season for a 
fairing. Hampson, Medii JEvi Kalendarium, I. 201. 
paceguardt (pas'gard), w. Same as passegarde. 
pace-maker (pas'ma"ker), n. One who sets the 
pace for others, as in racing. 
A number of well-known cyclists were asked to assist Pachycephala 2 (pak-i-sef'a-la), n. pi. [NL., 
as pace-makere. Bury and Holier, Cycling, p. 96. neut. pi. of pachycephalus, thick-headed: see 
pacer (pa'ser), n. 1. One who paces, or mea 
sures by pacing. 
Dante, pacer of the shore 
Where glutted hell disgorgeth filthiest gloom. 
Browning, Sordello, i __ j 
2 A horse whose natural gait is a pace. pachycephafic (pak*i-se-fal'ik"or*-sef'a-lik), a. 
One sunshiny afternoon there rode into the great gate [As p U clycephal-y + : lc,-} Pertaining to, of the 
of the Manhattoes two lean, hungry-looking Yankees, nature of, or exhibiting pachycephaly. 
Pachycephalinse (pak-i-sef-a-ll ne), n.pl. [NL. , 
< Pachycephala^ + -inse.] A subfamily of La- 
niidse, typified by the genus Pachycephala ; the 
thickheads, or thick-headed shrikes, other gen- 
era are Pachycephalopsis, Pachycare, Eopsallria, Oreosca, 
and Falcunadus. These birds range in the Austromalayan 
and Polynesian subregious. They have a stout grypanian 
bill ; the nostrils are scaled, and beset with small feathersor 
pachycephalous.~] In Crustacea, a division of 
Epizoa or fish-lice, containing the families Er- 
gaxiUdie and Dichelestiidse. 
pachycephalia (paVi-se-fa'li-a), n. [NL.: see 
pachycephaly.'] Same as pachycephaly. 
mounted on Narragansett pacers. 
Irving, Knickerbocker, p. 297. 
especially, to step slowly or with measured or 
stately tread ; stride. 
I am prowde and preste to passe on a passe, 
To go with this gracious, hir gudly to gyde. 
York Plays, p. 275. 
Pacing through the forest, 
Chewing the food of sweet and bitter fancy. 
Skak., As you Like it, iv. 3. 101. 
Up and down the hall-floor Bodli paced, 
With clanking sword, and brows set in a frown. 
William Morris, Earthly Paradise, II. 276. 
2f. To go on ; advance. 
With speed so pace 
To speak of Perdita. Shak., W. T., iv. 1. 23. 
3. Specifically, in the manege, to go at the pace; 
move by lifting both feet of the same side si- 
multaneously; amble. Seepacel,n.,6,a,n<lrack. 
II. trans. 1. To walk over step by step: as, 
the sentinel paces his round. 
To and fro 
Oft pacing, as the mariner his deck, 
My gravelly bounds. Cowper, Four Ages. 
2. To measure by stepping; measure in paces: 
as, to pace a piece of ground. 
A good surveyor will pace sixteen rods more accurately 
than another man can measure them by tape. 
Emerson, Works and Days, p. 141. 
3f. To train to a certain step, as a horse ; hence, 
to regulate. 
My lord, she 's not paced yet ; you must take some pains 
to work her to your manage. Shak., Pericles, iv. 6. 68. 
Far hence, ye proud hexameters, remove ! 
My verse is paced and trammelled into love. 
Dryden, tr. of Ovid's Amours, i. 32. 
pace 2 t, v. t. A corruption of parse 1 . 
Lima. I am no Latinist, Candius, you must conster it 
Can. So I will, and pace it too ; thou shall be acquainted 
with case, gender, and number. 
Lyly, Mother Bombie, i. 3. (Narei.) 
pace 3 (pas), n. A dialectal form ofpasch. 
pace 4 (pa'se), prep, or adv. [L., abl. of pax, 
peace : see peace.'} With or by the leave, per- 
mission, or consent of (some person mention- 
ed) : usually employed as a courteous form of 
expressing disagreement, like " A. B. must give 
me leave (or allow me) to say." 
Pace Professor Huxley, I venture to assert that you can 
derive no ethical conception whatever from "the laws of 
comfort," that in mere physics there is no room for the 
idea of right. Fortnightly Rev., N. S., XLIII. 68. 
pace-aisle (pas'il), n. An ambulatory. Lee's 
Glossary. 
pace-board (pas'bord), n. A wooden footpace 
or dais for an altar. See footpace, 5. Lee's 
Glossary. 
paced (past), a. [< pace 1 + -rf2.] Having a 
certain pace or gait : chiefly in composition : as, 
the slow-paced lemur. 
The cattle . . . wait 
Their wonted fodder, . . . silent, meek, 
And patient of the slow-paced swain's delay. 
Cowper, Task, v. 32. 
Pace dayt. Easter day. Compare Poos day. 
pace-eggert, See the quotation. 
3. Hence, a fast horse ; by extension, anything 
that exhibits remarkable speed or activity. 
[Colloq.] 
pacha, n. A French spelling of pasha. 
pachalic, n. A French spelling of pashalic. 
pachisi (pa-che'si), n. [Al8Oparchisi,parcheesi / 
< Hind, pachchisi, a game played on a kind of 
cloth chess-board with cowries for dice, and so 
named from the highest throw, which is twenty- 
five, < pachchis, pachis, twenty-five, < Skt. pan- 
cha vilicati, twenty-five : pancha = E. five; vin- Pachycephalidee as a separate family. 
cati = K twenty.] A game of Hindu origin, re- pachycephaline (pak-i-sef a-lm), a. 
sembling backgammon, played by four persons. <=ally , of or pertaining to the Paehycephalma^ 
bristles ; the first primary is at least two thirds as long as 
the second ; the point of the wing is formed usually by the 
fourth, fifth, and sixth primaries ; the tail is generally two 
thirds as long as the wing, diversiform, but not graduated ; 
the head is crested or not ; the plumage is without red or 
blue ; and the sexes are generally of different colors. Also 
Specifi- 
pachnolite (pak'uo-lit), n. [<Gr. irdxvti, hoar- 2. In Crustacea, thick-headed ; of or pertaining 
frost, rime, + MBo'f, stone.] A native fluoride to the Pachycephala. 
of aluminium, calcium, and sodium, found with pachycephaly (pak-i-sef a-li), . [< NL. ac%- 
crvolite in Greenland, and also in Colorado: so cephalia, < pachycephalus, thick-headed: see 
called in allusion to the frost-like appearance pachycephalous.] Abnormal thickness of the 
of the crystals. 
bones forming the vault of the cranium. 
pachycepJialia. 
Also 
see blepharitis.] 'Thickening and induration todactyl. See cut under footprint. 
of the eyelids from chronic inflammation. II. A pachydactyl annual. 
Pachybrachys (pa-kib'ra-kis), n. [NL. (Suf- Pachydactyli (pak-i-dak ti-h), n. pi. [NL 
frian, 1848; orig. Pachybrachis, Chevrolat), < pi- of pachydactylm : see pachydactyl.^ Thiek- 
Gr. Traxvf. thick, + f}pa X vc, short, small, little.] toed animals ; a division of ornithichmtes, con- 
In entom., a notable genus of Chrysomelidee or trasted with Leptodactyh. Hitchcock. 
leaf -beetles, of very wide distribution, compris- pachydactylous (pak-i-dak'ti-lus), a. [< pachy- 
ing 150 species, of which about 50 are North dactyl + -oits.] bai 
,me as pachydactyl. 
We should infer a larger number of pachydactylous than 
leptodactylous animals to have made the tracks. 
Hitchcock, Ichnol. Mass., p. 81. 
American. They have simple claws, the prothorax mar- 
gined at base, not crenulate, and the prosternum feebly 
channeled. 
Pachycardia (pak-i-kar'di-a), n. pi. 
Gr. mi^if, thick, + mpSia, heart: see 
Those vertebrates which have a thick 
lar heart divided into auricular and ventricu- skinned, as a member of the 'Pachydermata. 
lar parts, and a well-defined skull : opposed to Also pachydermal, pachydermatous, pachyder- 
Leptocardii. This primary group of Vertebrata mou s. 
contains all except the lancelets, and is center- jj_ w> A non-ruminant hoofed quadruped ; 
minous with Craniota. Haectcel. an y member of the old order Pachydermata. 
pachycardian (pak-i-kar'di-an), a. and n. [< pachydermal (pak-i-der'mal), a. [< pachyderm 
NL. Pachycardia + -on.] I. a. Having a thick, + ./.] Same &s pachyderm. 
fleshy heart; of or pertaining to the Pachycar- Pachydermata (pak-i-der'ma-ta), n.pl. [NL., 
dia; not leptocardian. < Gr. naxti, thick, + 6i/>[ta(T-), skin: see pachy- 
II. n. A member of the Pachycardia, as any derm.'} The non-ruminant ungulate mammals, 
or hoofed quadrupeds which do not chew the 
cud; in Cuvier's classification, the seventh or- 
der of Mammalia, divided into Proboscidea, Or- 
dinaria, and Solidungula. The order contained the 
elephants, hippopotamuses, swine, rhinoceroses, hyraxes, 
skulled vertebrate. 
pachycarpOUS (pak-i-kar'pus), a. [< Gr. 
thick, + (tapTrof, fruit.] In bot., having the 
pericarp very thick. 
Pachycephala 1 (pak-i-sef'a-la), n. [NL., fern. 
of pachycephalus, thick-headed : seepachyceplia- 
1 1 Tn nrwin, flip rvr>ii>nl WATIIIS nf Piifliti Belluee of Linnaeus 
S.J 1. JJ1 OimH*., the typical ge otlacliy- {ornling tne Order8 
cephalinse, founded in 1826 by Vigors and Hors- 
field, having the head uncrested, and the bill 
tapirs, horses, etc., corresponding to some extent with the 
Belittle of Linnaeus. It is disused, its components now 
Hyracoidea, the perisso- 
lonning tile uruera ^TUBIMOMMM ii'ttutt itctc, me MCI ioou- 
dactyl suborder of UngvJata, and a few of the artiodactyls. 
Also called Jitmenta. 
as broad as it is high at the nostrils. It is an ex- pachydermatoid (pak-i-der'ma-toid), a. [As 
tensive group of thick-headed shrikes, containing about 50 pachyderm, Pachydermata, + -old.] Somewhat 
species, ranging in the Indian and Australian regions, but thick-skinned ; resembling a pachyderm ; re- 
not in New Zealand. The type is P. gutturalw of Australia. ' , 
Also called Hylocharis or Hyloterpe, Mmcitrea, and Puche- !ated to the Pachydermata. 
rania. See cut in next column. pachydermatous (pak-1-der ma-tus), a. [As 
2. In entom., a genus of tachina-flies, or dip- pachyderm, Pacliy/i-rmiild. + -ou.] 1. Same 
terous insects of the family Tachinidse. Lioy, a.ajMcln/<lerm.2. Figuratively, thick-skinned ; 
1863. insensible to ridicule, abuse, reproof, etc. 
