packing-penny 
packing-pennyt (pak'iiig-pen"i), n. A small 
sum given in dismissing a person To give a 
packing-penny, to send (a person) packing, or about his 
business. 
Fie, fle ! Will you give 
A packing penny to virginity? 
I thought you'd dwell so long in Oypres isle, 
You'd worship Madam Venus at the length. 
B. Jonson, Case is Altered, iii. 8. 
packing-press (pak'ing-pres), . A powerful 
press, generally hydraulic, employed to com- 
press goods, as cotton, linen, hay, straw, etc., 
into small bulk for convenience of transport. 
packing-ring (pak' ing -ring), . A ring of 
metal or rubber used as seat for a coupling- 
Valve in a railway-car, or to make a joint air- 
tight, etc. Soi. Amer., LIV. 69. 
packing-shed (pak'ing-shed), n. A shed where 
fish are packed. 
packing-sheet (pak'ing-shet), n. 1. A sheet 
for packing or covering goods. 2. In hydro- 
therapy, a wet sheet for packing or -wrapping 
a patient. Also packsheet. 
packing-stick (pak'ing-stik), n. A stick used 
for straining up the cords around rolled fleeces 
in packing wool for transportation ; a woolder. 
pack-load (pak'lod), n. The usual load or 
pack which a beast of burden carries, as 300 
pounds for a mule, or 150 for a burro. 
packman (pak'man), n. ; pi. packmen (-men). 
One who carries a pack ; a peddler. 
The course of the day would, in all probability, bring 
them another packman, who would "border with them," 
prating of the town he had last quitted. 
Jea/reson, Live it Down, xxviii. 
A class of persons termed "duffers," "packmen," or 
"Scotchmen, and sometimes "tallymen," traders who go 
rounds with samples of goods, and take orders for goods 
afterwards to be delivered. 
5. Lowell, Taxes in England, III. 38. 
pack-moth (pak'moth), n. A certain clothes- 
moth, Anacampsis sarcitella, whose larva eats 
wool and woolen fabrics. Harris, Insects In- 
jurious to Vegetation, p. 493. 
pack-mule (pak'mul), . A mule used to carry 
packs or burdens. 
Pack-mule, as used in the Rocky Mountains, United States. 
packneedle (pak'ne"dl), n. [< ME. paknedle, 
paknelde,pakneelde ; <pack l + needle.] A large 
needle for sewing up packages; a packing- 
needle. See cut under needle. 
Amonge the riche rayes I rendred a lessoun, 
To broche hem with upak-nedle and plaited hem togyderes. 
Piers Plowman (B), v. 212. 
pack-papert (pak'pa"per), n. Packing-paper. 
Packe paper, or cap paper, such paper as mercers and 
other occupiers use to wrappe their ware in. 
Nomendator (1585), p. 6. (Nares.) 
packpauncht, n. [< pack*, v., + obj. paunch, 
w.] A greedy eater. Stanihurst. 
pack-road (pak'rod), n. A road or trail suit- 
able for pack-animals, but not for vehicles. 
A wild region of tumbled hills, traversed but by a few 
pack-roads. J. R. Green, Making of Eng., p. 61. 
pack-saddle (pak'sad"!), . The saddle of a 
pack-animal, made to be loaded with packs or 
burdens, and furnished with straps, hooks, and 
rings sewed to it for securing the packs. Such 
saddles are variously fitted according to the nature of the 
pack, which may consist of provisions or utensils, arms or 
ammunition, or even wounded men. 
Your beards deserve not so honourable a grave as to 
stuff a botcher's cushion, or to be entombed in an ass's 
pack-saddle. Shak., Cor., ii. 1. 99. 
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packsheet (pak'shet), . Same as packing- 
sheet. 
packstaff(pak'staf), n. ; pi. packstaves (-stavz). 
A staff on which a peddler rests the weight of 
his pack when he stops. 
To make all "as plain as a pack-sta/." 
J. Bradford, Works (Parker Soc., 1853), II. 319. 
Not riddle-like, obscuring their intent, 
But pack-sta/e plaine, uttering what thing they ment. 
Bp. Hall, Satires, vii., Prol. 
(Sometimes used attributively in contempt. 
O, pnclcsiaff rhymes ! 
Why not, when court of stars shall see these crimes? 
Marstnn, Scourge of Villainy, i. 42.) 
packthread (pak'thred), n. Strong thread or 
twine used for sewing up packages or bales, or 
for tying up parcels. 
A woman's crupper of velure, . . . here and there pieced 
with packthread. Shak. , T. of the S., iii. 2. 64. 
You may take me in with a walking-stick, 
Even when you please, and hold me with a pack-thread. 
Fletcher, Beggar's Bush, v. 1. 
I slid down by a bottom of packthread into the street, 
and so 'scaped. 
B. Jonson, Every Man in his Humour, iv. 4. 
pack-train (pak'tran), . A train of pack-ani- 
mals with their loads. 
No one who has not tried it can understand the work 
and worry that it is to drive apack-train over rough ground 
and through timber. The Century, XXX. 223. 
pack-wall (pak'wal), n. Same as pack 1 , 11. 
packware (pak'war), n. Goods carried in a 
pack; especially, the articles offered for sale by 
a peddler. 
Desirous to utter such popish pelfe and packware as he 
broght with him, he opened there his baggage of pestilent 
doctrine. Foxe, Martyrs, p. 1388. 
packwax (pak'waks), n. Same &spaxwax. 
packway (pak'wa), . A pack-road. 
paco 1 (pa'ko), n. [Peruv. See alpaca.'] Same 
as alpaca. 
paco 2 (pa'ko), n. [<paco l .~] In South America, 
a gossany ore: so called because of its brown- 
ish color, resembling that of the paco. 
The principal ores [at Cerro de Pasco] are the pacos so 
called, analogous to the colorados of the Mexican miners : 
they are ferruginous earths, mingled with argentiferous 
ores, and evidently resulting from the decomposition of 
the sulphurets. 
J. D. Whitney, Metallic Wealth of the U. S., p. 169. 
paco 3 (pa'ko), . Same as pacu. 
pacoct, pacokt, . Middle English forms of 
peacock. 
pacoury-UVa (pa-kou'ri-u'va), n. See Platonia. 
pacquett (pak'et), n. and v. " An obsolete spell- 
ing of packet. 
pact (pakt), n. [= F. pacte, OF. pact, pache 
= Sp. Pg. pacto = It. patto = OFries. pacht = 
D. MLG. pacht = MHQ.phaht,pfacht, G. pfacht 
= Dan. pagt, < L. pactum, an agreement, < pa- 
cisci, pp. pactus, inceptive form of OL. pa- 
cere, agree, bargain, covenant; akin to pangere, 
fasten: see pack 1 . Cf.pack 2 .] An agreement; 
a compact. 
O wretch, doost thou not knowe 
One cannot vse th' ayde of the Powers belowe 
Without som Pact of Counter-Seruices, 
By Prayers, Perfumes, Homage, and Sacrifice? 
Sylvester, tr. of Du Bartas's Weeks, ii., The Trophies. 
This world of ours by tacit pact is pledged 
To laying such a spangled fabric low, 
Whether by gradual brush or gallant blow. 
Brmtminff, Sordello. 
But ye're all in the same pact all in the same pact 
and not one o' ye caring for anything but your own selfish 
ends and enjoyments. W. Black, In Far Lochaber, vii. 
Nude pact. See nude. Pact de non alienando, a 
covenant common in mortgages in Louisiana, binding the 
mortgager not to alienate, encumber, etc., the mortgaged 
property. This pact renders an alienation, etc., in viola- 
tion of it, void as against the mortgagee. Pacte com- 
missoire, in French law, a clause in a contract of sale 
whereby tne vendor stipulates that, if the buyer does not 
pay the price agreed upon within a certain time, the sale 
shall be rescinded. In the Province of Quebec, under the 
law anterior to the civil code, this condition was implied 
in all sales. Pretorian pact, a pact supported by a con- 
sideration, and therefore (in Roman law of the later peri- 
ods) recognized and enforced by the pretor. 
pacta, n. Plural of pactum. 
paction (pak'shon), n. [< OF. paction = OSp. 
paccion, < L. pactio(n-), an agreement, < pactus, 
pp. of pacisci, agree : see pact. Ct. compac- 
tion 2 .'] A compact, agreement, or contract. 
They made a paction 'tween them twa, 
Get up and Bar the Door (Child's Ballads, VIII. 126). 
The paction evangelical, in which we undertake to be 
disciples to the holy Jesus. 
Jer. Taylor, Works (ed. 1835), I. 349. 
pactional (pak'shon-al), a. [< paction + -/.] 
Of the nature of a pact. Bp. Sanderson, Cases 
of Conscience, p. 126. 
pactitioust (pak-tish'us), a. [< LL. pactitius, 
pacticius, stipulated, < L. pactus, pp. of pacisci, 
pad 
agree, stipulate: see Jtact.] Settled by agree- 
ment or stipulation. Johnson. 
Pactolian (pak-to'li-an), a. [< L. Pactolius (= 
Gr. Ila/c/l(of), < L. 1'actolus, < Gr. Ha/craWf, a 
river in Lydia.] Of or pertaining to Pactolus, 
a river in Lydia, famous for the gold anciently 
found in its sands. 
Pray pay to Mr. William Trim, or Order, the Sum of 
How sweetly it runs! Pactolian Guineas chink every 
Line. Steele, Grief A-la-Mode, ii. 1. 
pactum (pak'tum), .; pi. pacta (-ta). [L.: see 
pact.'] 1. In /Scots law, a pact or agreement be- 
tween two or more persons to give or perform 
something. 2. In Bom. law, such a convention 
or agreement as did not fall within the number 
of those to which full effect was given by the law, 
and thus distinguishedfrom con .tractus. ^.contract 
was a pact or agreement of the parties, plus an obligation 
affixed by the proper formalities. A pactum did not (un- 
til a late period) give rise to an action (a few pacta, called 
pacta leffitima, excepted), but an exception was given if a 
ty tried to enforce a claim in violation of the pactum. 
party 
If, fo 
f, for instance, a creditor had given a formal release tac- 
ceptilatio), the obligation was entirely destroyed, so that 
no action would lie ; if he had made a covenant not to 
sue (pactum de non petendo), the action would lie, but the 
pretor would give the debtor an exception (exceptio doli). 
Nudum pactum. See nude pact, under ntide. Pac- 
tum illicitum, a general phrase covering all contracts 
opposed to law, either as being contra legem (contrary to 
law), contra bonos mores (contrary to morality), or incon- 
sistent with the principles of sound policy. 
pacu (pak'o), n. [S. Amer.] A South Ameri- 
can characinoid fish of the genus Myletes, found 
in fresh waters, especially of Brazil. Also paco. 
pad 1 (pad), n. [A dial. var. otpath, perhaps in 
part due to the cognate D. pad, a path: see 
path.] A path; a footpath; a road. [Obsolete 
or slang.] 
I am no such nipping Christian, but a maunderer upon 
the pad. Middleton and Dekker, Roaring Girl, v. 1. 
The Squire of the Pad and the Knight of the Post. 
Prior, Thief and Cordelier. 
To Stand pad, to stand by the wayside begging. [Gipsy, 
or thieves' slang.] 
I obtained three children, two girls and a boy, between 
the ages of five and ten years, of their parents, at a com- 
mon " padding-ken " in Blakeley Street (now Charter 
Street) for three shillings, to stand pad with me from 
seven o'clock until twelve p. m. on a Saturday. 
Letter from G. A. Brine (1876X quoted in Ribton-Turner's 
[Vagrants and Vagrancy, p. 642. 
pad 1 (pad), v. ; pret. and pp. padded, ppr. pad- 
ding. [< pad}, .] I. intrans. To travel on 
foot ; tramp slowly or wearily along ; trudge or 
jog along. 
Something most like a lion, and it came a great padding 
pace after. Bunyan, Pilgrim's Progress, ii. 
The muzzled ox that treadeth out the corn, 
Gone blind in padding round and round one path. 
Browning, Ring and Book, II. 277. 
II. trans. 1 . To travel on foot over or along ; 
proceed on foot through ; journey slowly, stead- 
ily, or wearily along. [Obsolete or slang.] 
Though the weather be foul and storms grow apace, yet 
go not ye a^ne, but other your brothers and sisters pad 
the same path. 
J. Bradford, Letters (Parker Soc., 1853), II. 46. 
2. To tread or beat down; make smooth and 
level by treading : as, to pad a path TO pad the 
hoof, to go on foot ; "foot it. [Slang.] 
pad 2 (pad), n. [Early mod. E. also padd, 
padde; < ME. padde, pade (not in AS., the 
alleged AS. "padde resting on the early ME. pi. 
pades in the AS. Chronicle, under date of 1137, 
but written many years later) = MD. padde, 
pedde, D. padde, pad = MLG. padde, LG. pad 
(> G. dial, padde) = Icel. padda = Sw. padda 
= Dan. padde, a toad. Hence paddock^-, etc.] 
A toad ; a frog. [Now rare.] 
I seal prune that paddok and prevyn him as a pad. 
Coventry Mysteries, p. 164. 
A pad In the strawt, something wrong ; ahidden danger ; 
"a snake in the grass." 
Here lyes in dede the padde within the strawe. 
Collier's Old Ballads, p. 108. (Balliwell.) 
Ye perceive by this lingring there is a pad in the straw. 
Bp. Still, Gammer Gurton's Needle, v. 2. (Dames.) 
pad 3 (pad), n. [Early mod. E. padde; perhaps 
a var. ot pod (as nalfl of nob 1 , etc.), in sense of 
'bag': see pod. In def. 1 (c), cf. MD. pad, 
patte, the sole of the foot (Kilian) ; with this 
cf. F. patte, paw (see patrol, paw).] 1. A soft 
cushion, or something of the nature of a cush- 
ion, or a stuffed part, as of a garment, a saddle, 
etc., used to fill up a hollow, to relieve pressure, 
or as a protection. 
He was kept in the bands, hauing vnder him but onely 
a pad of straw. Foxe, Martyrs, p. 854. 
In certain Beasts, as the Cow and the Sheep, the front 
edentulous part of the upper jaw is invested by a horny 
epithelial pad, against which the teeth of the front of the 
lower jaw bite. Mivart, Encyc. Brit., XXIL 108. 
