pack 
ther in packs, flocks, or bands : as, the grouse 
begin to pack. 6. To depart in haste, as when 
summarily dismissed; be off at once: generally 
with off, away, etc. 
Go, pack thoii hence unto tbc Stygian lake. 
Greene, Alphonsus, 11. 
Then down came Jacob at the Kate, 
And bids her pack to hell. 
Wanton Wife of Bath (Child's Ballad*. VIII. 158). 
Gentle or simple, <>(// she shall pack. 
Goldsmith, Vicar, xxi. 
To send (one) packing, to pack (a person) off, or dis- 
miss (him) without ceremony. 
So once again Is Gaveston sent packing out of the King- 
ddiii. and goes into France. llaker, Chronicles, p. 100. 
Its walls had been cracking 
.Since Harry the Eighth Kent Its people a-packiny. 
Barham, Ingoldsby Legends, I. 161. 
packet (pak), . [A corruption of pact.'} An 
agreement or compact ; a pact. 
I Was not a pack agreed twlxt thee and me? 
C. A pact to make thec tell thy secrecy. 
Daniel, Works, Big. K k 5. (Naret.) 
It was found straight that this was a gross pack betwixt 
Saturnlnus and Marina. North, tr. o! Plutarch. (A'ora.) 
pack-t (pak), v. [< pact 2 , .] I. intrans. To 
form a pact; especially, to confederate forbad 
purposes ; join in collusion. 
Go pack with him, and give the mother gold. 
Shot., Tit And!, Iv. 2. 155. 
H. trans. 1. To plot; contrive fraudulently. 
The forging and packing of miracles. 
Purchas, Pilgrimage, p. 226. 
This Is pack'd, sure, to disgrace me. 
Fletcher, Spanish Curate, Iv. 5. 
2. To join in collusion ; ally for some bad pur- 
pose. 
That goldsmith there, were he not pack'd with her, 
Could witness It, for he was with me then. 
Shat., C. of E., v. 1. 219. 
pack 3 (pak), a. [Appar. elliptical tor in pack, 
i. e. in league: see pacfc 2 .] Intimate; confi- 
dential; "thick." [Scotch.] 
Nae doubt but they were fain o' ither, 
And unco pack ana thick thegither. 
Burnt, The Twa Dogs. 
package (pak'aj), . [< OF. pacquage, the act 
of packing; as jpaefc 1 + -age.'} 1. A bundle or 
parcel ; a quantity pressed or packed together : 
as, a package of cloth. 2. A unit of freight or 
luggage ; an article of transportation, as a box 
or a bundle. 3. A charge made for packing 
goods. 4. A duty formerly charged in the 
port of London on goods imported or exported 
by aliens, or by denizens who were sons of 
aliens. Original package, In commerce and Ameri- 
can constitutional law of foreign and interstate commerce, 
the package or casing in which goods are handled In the 
course of transportation in the commerce in question. 
Thus, if wine is imported in hogsheads, the hogshead is 
the original package ; if in bottles packed In cases handled 
separately, tne case is the original package. 
packaging (pak'aj-ing), n. [(package + -ing 1 .'] 
The act of making into packages. Packaging- 
machine, a machine for bundling yarns or other goods 
Into compact shape for transportation ; a bundling press. 
E. 11. Knight. 
packall (pak'al), n. A sort of basket made in 
South America from the outer parts of the 
leaves of the ita-palm. 
pack-animal (pak'an'i-mal), . A beast of 
burden used to carry packs, or to transport 
goods in bales, boxes, etc., on its back. See 
cut under pack-mule. 
Fourteen miles of pack-animal trail have been built 
around the Big Bend, in order to make all portions of the 
claim accessible. Set. Amer., S. 8., LIV. 85. 
pack-cinch (pak'sinch), . A wide girth, about 
33 inches long, made of strong canvas or hair, 
having a hard-wood hook at one end and a ring 
at the other, used with the pack-saddle in ad- 
justing the burden of a pack-animal: it is in 
general use in the United States army, and is 
of Spanish-American origin. 
pack-cloth (pak'kloth), n. A stout coarse 
cloth used for packing goods; packsheet; bur- 
hip. 
pack-duck (pak'duk), n. A coarse sort of linen 
for pack-cloths. 
packer (pak'er), w. [= D. pakker = MLQ. Q. 
/lacker = Sw. packare (cf. ML. paccarins and 
juifcator); zspack 1 + -er 1 .'] 1. One who packs; 
4226 
Rough-looking miners and packtrt, whose business It Is 
in guide UK- lout; iiiiilc trains that go where wagons can- 
not, and whose work In packing needs special and peculiar 
skill. T. ttuoKcelt, The Century, XXXV. 604. 
6. A government officer charged with the in- 
spection of provisions packed for export. 6. 
A ring by which the space between the tubing 
and the walls of an oil-well is closed and made 
gas-tight. See oil-veil packing, under intckini/i. 
7. The variously constructed mechanism by 
which the grain cut by a reaping-machine i 
packed or compressed on the binding-table and 
held till embraced and bound by the twine, 
packet (pak'et), n. [Formerly also pai-i/m-i 
(= Q. packet) ; < Of.pacquet, paquet, F. paquet 
= Sp. paquete = It. paccltetto, dim. of pacque, 
a pack: see puck 1 .] 1. A small pack or pack- 
age ; a parcel ; a mail of letters. 
The licit hciiish and Popish, and all those other packets 
of miracles, which we receiue by the lesultes annuall re- 
lations from the East and West Indies. 
Pvrchat, Pilgrimage, p. 93. 
All Letters more than 80 Miles Is 3d. Single and 6d. Dou- 
ble Paajuet 12d. an Ounce. 
Quoted In A Mori i Social Life In Reign of Queen Anne, 
[I. 133. 
Yur Lashlp staid to peruse a Pacquet of Letters. 
Conyreve, Way of the World, 11. 4. 
I have lately been looking over the many packet* of let- 
ters which I have received from all quarters of Great 
Britain. Steele, Taller, No. 184. 
2. A despatch-vessel; a ship or other vessel 
employed to convey letters from country to 
country or from port to port ; a vessel employ- 
ed in carrying mails, goods, and passengers at 
stated intervals; hence, a vessel starting on 
regular days, or at an appointed time. Also 
called packet-boat, packet-ship, packet-ressel. 
From the earliest times New York has been the port of 
departure for packets steering for our Southern ports. 
The Century. XXXVIII. 356. 
3. The panel of a packhorse. [Cheshire, Eng.] 
Wright. 4. A pack (250 leaves) of leaf-metal. 
packet (pak'et), v. t. [< packet, n.] 1. To 
bind up in a package or parcel. 
My resolution is to send you all your letters well sealed 
and pocketed. Swift, Letters. 
When Mr. Miintz has done, you will be so good as to 
pacquet him up, and send him to Strawberry. 
Walpnlc, Letters, II. 472. 
2. To despatch or send in a packet- vessel. 
Her husband was pocketed to France. Ford. 
packet-boat (pak'et-bot), n. Same zspacket, 2. 
packet-day (pak'et-da), . Mail-day; the day 
for posting letters, or for the sailing of a packet- 
ship, fiimmonds. 
packet-note (pak'et-not), . A folded writing- 
paper, 9 X 11 inches. 
packet-ship (pak'et-ship), n. Same as packet, 2. 
packet-vessel (pak'et-ves'el), . Same as 
packet, 2. 
packfong (pak'fong), n. An erroneous form of 
paktong. 
packhorse (pak'hdrs), . A horse used as a 
pack-animal in carrying burdens ; hence, figur- 
atively, a drudge. 
I was a pack-hone in his great affairs, . . . 
'['.' vi>>;ili-r 111- M 1 I spilt mil "II 
Shak., Rich. III., L 3. 122. 
The slaves of custom and establlsh'd mode, 
With packhorse constancy we keep the road. 
Cowper, Tirocinium, 1. 252. 
Flour Is to be had in the stony land only by seeking it 
within the Austrian frontier, and to the Austrian fron- 
tier, accordingly, the packhontctt go, with a strong convoy 
of Turkish soldiers to guard them. 
E. A. Freeman, Venice, p. 286. 
pack-house (pak'hous), n. A warehouse for 
receiving and storing goods, 
pack-ice (pak'is), n. in the polar seas, a col- 
lection of large pieces of floating ice of indefi- 
nite extent. Compare pack 1 , n., 8. 
As the Ude turned, a strip of pack-ice about a mile wide 
separated us from open water to the south. 
A. W. Oreely, Arctic Service, p. 91. 
packing 1 (pak'ing), . [Verbal n. olpack 1 . r.] 
1. Any material used for filling an empty 
space, closing a joint, and the like ; stuffing, as 
the filling of a piston or a well-tube. 
One day, in the forenoon, the engine was working badly, 
the iKickin-i having got too loose. 
Sci. Amer., N. S., LIV. e. 
packing-paper 
bringing together or manipulating to serve 
one's own purposes. See yw/V', , -. t., 8. 
We affirm, then, that the results which these tables pre- 
sent, anil whli-h M-i-m so favourable to Mr. .Sadler's theory, 
are produced by packing, and by packing atone. 
Macaulay, Sadler's Kef. Refuted. 
Metallic packing. In tnath. (a) A system of puking In 
whl( h metal is used, as metallic rings for piston-packing. 
Such rings are either so cast as to be 
elastic, or they are divided Into teg- 
menu and fitted with springs to press 
them against the Interior of the cylin- 
der soas to form a steam-tight contact. 
I n 178(1 he |Cart wrlght | devoted him- 
self to improvements, which Include 
metallic packing to the piston In the 
steam-engine, which he patented in 
nafi and 1801. 
A. Barlotf. Wearing, p. 285. 
(6) Tubes of lead or other soft metal 
filled with some vegetable material, 
such as hemp or cotton. The ends of 
the tubes are either forced or sol- 
dered together. Oil-well packing, 
a packing Inserted between the pipe 
and the interior surface of the boring 
In an oil-well to keep surface water, 
or water from the sides of the hole, 
from running Into the well, and to 
prevent oil In some wells from being 
forced out around the pipe by a pres- 
sure of gas. The packing originally 
used was a leather bag tilled with 
flaxseed, called a teed bag, made In the 
form of a ring. The fUxseed, swelling 
on being wetted, closed tightly the 
opening to be stopped. This packing 
swelled so tightly as to be very diffi- 
cult to remove a difficulty which 
led to the Invention of many substi- 
tutes. One of these Is the modern 
water-packing, which consists of an 
annular leather packing, concave on c , t ^ 
the upper surface, surrounding the at/T 
pipe, and held In position by a screw- 
joint. The weight of the superincumbent water presses 
this packing closely against the Interior of the bore. 
Another form of oil-well packing, which stops efflux of 
oil under Internal gas-pressure, as well as Influx of sur- 
face-water, Is shown in the accompanying cut. 
packing- (pak'ing), n. [Verbal n. olpack%, r.] 
Collusion; trickery; cheating. 
Here ' packing, with a witness, to deceive us all I 
Shak., T. of the S., T. 1. 121. 
Oil-well Packing. 
a, an elastic fob- 
stance surrounding 
the main tubing: f, 
the ordinary coupling 
racing on the wash- 
er t, their surfaces 
ground together and 
made water-tight ; rf, 
a loose nut running 
r-threal 
upon a screw 
cut on the 
tubing ; e e, elli 
I 
. iPtit 
iprings, dovetailed or 
otherwise fastened tn 
the sides of the loose 
nut rf, and partially 
There may be tricks, packinti, do yon se> 
Margton, Jimmn, and Chapman, Ea 
2. In printing, the fabric used on printing- 
specificaiiy. a" person who'se business it is to presses between the iron platen or cylinder and 
pack good's for transportation.-^. One who ^^^S^^SSffKSlK^ 
A hard packing is made of glazed millboard or of smooth 
hard paper, which prevents indentation. 
3. In maaonri/, small stones embedded in mor- 
tar, employed to fill up the vacant spaces in 
the middle of walk; rubble. 4. The act of 
prepares and packs provisions, as beef, pork, 
oysters, fruit, etc., for preservation or for 
market. 3. A machine used for packing. 4. 
One who is engaged in transporting goods, etc., 
on pack-animals. 
see? 
Eastward Ho, T. 1. 
That which Sulpltius writes concerning Origens Books 
gives cause vehemently to suspect there hath bin packimi 
of old. Milton, Reformation in Eng. , I. 
packing-awl (pak'ing-al), n. A form of awl 
which pierces a hole through packing-cloth or 
other material, and carries with it packthread 
for sewing or fastening. 
packing-block (pak'ing-blok), //. A rectangu- 
lar block gained into center-sills and double- 
spring draw-bar timbers, and serving to con- 
nect them firmly together longitudinally. Car- 
BuiMer'n Diet. 
packing-bolt (pak'ing-bolt), n. In a steam- 
engine, a bolt which secures the gland of a 
stuffing-box. /.'. //. Knight. 
packing-box (pak'ing-boks), n. 1. A box or 
case in which goods, etc., are packed for trans- 
portation. 2. In a steam-engine, same &s stuf- 
fing-box. 
packing-case (pak'ing-kas), n. Same as pack- 
ing-box. 
packing-cell (pak'ing-eel), . In hot. See len- 
ticel, I. 
packing-crib (pak'ing-krib), H. A place where 
mackerel are packed in barrels ana marked ac- 
cording to their respective grades. 
packing-expander (pak'ing-eks-pn'der), n. 
A spring or other device for spreading the pack- 
ing of a valve or piston against the surface upon 
which it traverses. 
packing-gland (pak'ing-gland), n. In a steam- 
engine, tne cover of a stuffing-box, which is 
screwed or pressed into the stuffing-box to hold 
the packing tightly against the piston. 
packing-leather (pak'ing-leTH'er), n. 1. A 
ring of leather on a plunger or piston travers- 
ing against the cylinder or barrel, to form with 
it a tight joint or packing. 2. A dust-guard. 
packing-needle (pak'ing-ne'dl), . A strong 
needle for sewing up packages wrapped in bur- 
lap or packing-sheet. See cut under needle. 
packing-nut (pak'ing-nut), n. A form of pack- 
ing-gland or stuffing-box cover which screws 
into the stuffing-box. 
packing-officer (pak'ing-of'i-ser), . An ex- 
cise-officer who superintends or inspects the 
packing of excisable articles. 
packing-paper (pak'ing -pa'per), n. Strong 
paper used for wrapping parcels: a strong and 
thick kind of wrapping-paper. 
