pad 
Specifically () In rriVA/ 1 ', ;i wjiddril mmnt worn > pin 
tect thu lug by a batsman or wicket-keeper, (li) In rni- 
hrniiliT/t, ;i siiKill quantity of llhrous tnatcrhil, such jus niw 
cotton or silk, usi-il for raising p;irts of ;i pattern, the stitch 
covering it dosuly. (r) One of the large, HeHhy, thirk- 
skinnril protiilnT;im-t>s of the sole of tin? foot of varfoun 
qtudrapdl,Mtbdoaor(oxi henee. n|ieaiically, thefix>t 
of a fox. ((/) OIH- of the tylari of a bird's foot ; one of tin- 
cushion-likr riiliir^-'iiirnls on thu under side of a hint'* 
tmis. Coinp;irr /n'<'l jxnt iitid fit<'nin. {} In unat. , the sple- 
niuni of the rorpus c;illoslim. See gplenium. II. Gray, 
Anat. (ed. 1H.S7), p. (iili (/) In eatoni., a projecting part 
of the lx>dy covered only with :i jiifinlinuir or neini .Int i 
nous sheath : generally used in composition : as, the wing- 
jtailH of n jmpii; the foot-jjrtrf* or ciiHliiiins on the tarsi. 
2. A cushion used as a saddle ; a saddle of lea- 
ther and padding, without any tree, such as are 
used by country market-women or by equestri- 
an performers in a circus. 3. A number of 
sheets of writing-, drawing-, or blotting-paper 
held together by glue at one or more edges, form- 
ing a tablet from which the sheets can be re- 
moved singly as used : as, a writing-rf ; a blot- 
ting-;)rf. 4. A bundle; bale; pack: as, a, pad 
of wool ; a pail of yarn. Among fish-dealers a 
l><tfl of maclcerel is 60 (sometimes 120) fish. 
I had two pads of soles, sir, and lost 4. that ii, one pad 
by them. 
Mayhew, London Labour and London Poor, I. 67. 
5. The handle of some tools: as, the pad of a 
keyhole-saw. 6. In ship-building, a piece laid 
over a ship's beam to give the camber. 7. 
pi. Thick ribbons, double-faced and watered, 
much in use at certain times for watch-guards. 
Compare Petersham ribbon, under ribbon Op- 
tic pad. See optic. 
pad" (pad), v. t.; pret. and pp. padded, ppr. 
padding. [<parf 3 , .] 1. To stuff or furnish 
with a pad or padding : often with out. 
I thought we knew him : "What, it 's you, 
The padded man that wears the stays ! 
Tennyson, The New Timon. 
2. To expand by the insertion of extraneous 
or needless matter, or the use of unnecessary 
words : as, to pad an article in a newspaper ; 
to pad put a page in a book. 3. In calico-print- 
ing, to impregnate (the cotton cloth to be print- 
ed) with a mordant. It is done in a machine 
called a padding-machine (which see). 
The cloth intended to be dyed is flrst steeped and pad- 
ded about in buffalo's or sheep's milk, and next exposed 
to the sun. W. Crookes, Dyeing and Calico- Printing, p. 321. 
4. To glue the edges of (sheets of paper) to- 
gether, so as to form a pad. [Colloq.] 
A half-pint of the cement will pad a vast quantity of 
sheets. The Writer, 111. 82. 
5. In mech., to puncture with numerous fine 
holes, as the end of a pipe, or the rose on the 
end of a nozle. [Eng.] 
In order to prevent a false reading of the water gauge, 
it was fu'ilt/, ,t ' that is to say, the end of the tube in the 
top of the upcast shaft was perforated with numerous 
small holes. The Engineer, LXVII. 39. 
Padded cell, padded room, in a prison or an insane-asy- 
lum, a room having the walls padded or cushioned, to pre- 
vent prisoners or violent patients confined in it from doing 
themselves injury by dashing themselves against thewalls. 
pad 4 (pad), n. [Also ped; < ME. pedde; per- 
haps another use of pad 3 . Hence pcddcr, ped- 
ler. pedlar, peddler, etc., and (prob.) in comp. 
padlock.] A. pannier ; a basket, ffalliirell. 
pad r> (pad), . [Abbr. of pad-nag, pad-horse.] A 
road-horse; a horse for riding on the road, as 
distinguished from a hunter or a work-horse, 
etc. ; a roadster. 
A careless groom of mine has spoiled me the prettiest 
pad in the world with only riding him ten miles. 
Steele, Spectator, No. 88. 
pad 6 (pad), n. [Appar. abbr. of padder 1 or 'pad- 
man. Cf. footpad.} A robber; a footpad. 
These freeborn sounds proceeded from four MUb 
In ambush laid, who nad perceived him loiter 
Behind his carriage. Byron, Don Juan, xi. 11. 
pad" (pad), v. i. ; pret. and .pp. padded, ppr. pad- 
ding. [< pad, n. ; associated also with pad 1 , 
r.] To be a footpad, or highway robber; fre- 
quent roads or highways in order to rob. 
These pad on wit's high road, and suits maintain 
With those they rob. Swift, To Mr. Congreve. 
padart, . [Origin obscure.] Groats; coarse 
flour or meal. 
In the bolting and sifting of near fourteen years of such 
power and favour, all that came out could not be expected 
to be pure and tine meal, but must have amongst it partar 
and bran in this lower age of human fragility. 
Sir H. Wotlon, Reliquiw. 
pad-bracket (pad'brak'et), n. A wall-bracket 
of a shape adapted to receive a saddle: used 
in a stable or harness-room. 
pad-clinking (pad'kliti)* king), a. Given to 
hobnobbing witli footpads; frequenting the 
company or society of footpads. [Slang.] 
4227 
liiKiil day, my veterans, my champions. My bonny, pad- 
rlutlciiii/, imt-aftrr-cight-orlock-parade, George stn-n 
bucks, good day. //. Kingririf, Hillyars and Hurtons, xix. 
pad-cloth (|>ad'kl6tli), n. A cloth or blanket 
covering the loins of a horse; a housing-cloth. 
pad-crimp (pad'krimp), n. In saddlery, a press 
in which dampened leather is molded into form 
between the dies of a former with protruding 
and hollow parts. When the leather dries, it 
retains the convex shape acquired under pres- 
surc. 
Padda (pad's), n. [NL. (Reichenbach, 1850), 
< native name for rice.] A genus of ploceine 
birds of the subfamily Spermcstinte (or a subge- 
nus ot MIIHIII i, lite type of which \sl\oryzivora, 
the paddy-bird, commonly called Java sparrotc. 
paddet, See pad"*. 
padder 1 (pad'er), n. [< pad* + -eri.] A high- 
way robber; a footpad. 
Well. Viy more, dine gratis. 
Mar. Under what hedge, I pray you 1 or at whose cot? 
Are they paddert or abram-men that are your consorts? 
Maainger, New Way to Pay Old Debts, 11. 1. 
padder 2 (pad'er), n. [<p<f3 + -erl.] One who 
pads or cushions. 
paddies (pad'iz), n.j>J. [Origin obscure.] Pan- 
talets or knee-drawers with flounces. [South- 
ern U. S.] 
padding (pad'ing), n. [Verbal n. of pads, v.] 
1 . The act of stuffing so as to make a pad. 2. 
The cotton, hair, straw, or other material used 
in stuffing anything, as a bolster, saddle, or gar- 
ment ; the stuffing used to keep in shape any 
part of a garment according to the fashion 
which requires it to be more in relief or drawn 
tighter than the natural forms allow. The mate- 
rials used are, especially (a) a rough felted cloth, a kind 
of shoddy ; (6) fibrous and loose material : (c) wadding, 
batting, and bombast. 
3. In calico-printing, the process of imbuing 
the fabric all 'over with a mordant which is 
dried. A design is next printed on it in acid discharge 
(usually lime-juice and bisulphate of potash), the result 
being that after the cloth has been dyed In the bath and 
cleared, white patterns appear upon a ground of uniform 
color. These white patterns or spaces may be afterward 
printed upon in steam or pigment colors. Calicoes pro- 
duced in this way are said to be in the padding or plaquaye 
style. 
A brown ground is produced over the entire surface by 
padding In solutions of a salt of manganese. 
II'. ;;/,-.,;/ o/< /,V. v, ; , /..-, L'd SIT., p. -i\'l. 
4. Any unnecessary matter inserted in a col- 
umn, article, book, etc., merely to bring it up to 
a certain size ; vamp; hence, written or printed 
matter of no real value or utility ; whatever has 
merely the effect of increasing the size of any- 
thing without adding to its interest or value. 
Anybody who desires to know what is within the power 
of the average clergyman may take up one of the inferior 
magazines and read one of the articles which serve for 
padding. Saturday Rev. 
I am perhaps more struck now with the enormous 
amount of padding the number of third- and fourth-rate 
statues which weary the eye that would fain approach 
freshly the twenty and thirty best. 
Henry Jamet, Jr., Trans. Sketches, p. 206. 
padding-flue (pad'ing-fl6), . In calico-print- 
ing, a drying-chamber in which cotton cloth is 
dried after the process of padding. It has several 
forms, but each generally comprises an inclosed passage of 
considerable length through which heated air Is circulated 
in one direction, while the padded piece is unwound from 
a roller and passed through the flue in the opposite direc- 
tion, being dried during its passage, and finally rewound 
upon another cylinder. See pads, p., 3, and padding, 8. 
padding-ken (pad'ing-ken), n. A low lodging- 
house patronized by footpads, professional beg- 
gars, thieves, vagrants, etc. [Thieves' slang.] 
Ragged Schools and City Missions are of no avail aspre- 
ventitlves of crime so long as the wretched dens of in- 
famy, brutality, and rice, termed padding-kern, continue 
their daily and nightly work of demoralization. 
Min/lifn; London Labour and London Poor, I. 454. 
padding-machine (pad'ing-ma-shen'), n. In 
calico-printing, an apparatus for imbuing cot- 
ton cloth uniformly with a mordant solution in 
the process of dyeing. It consists of a combination 
of rofJers for unwinding and receiving the fabric, which is 
caused to pass through a vat containing the mordant 
paddle 1 (pad'l), r. ; pret. and pp. paddled, ppr. 
paddling. [Also dial, paidle; prob. a var. of 
pattle 1 , freq. of pat 1 : see pattle 1 , pat 1 , patter 1 . 
Ct.pattleV, a var. of j>a<Wfe2.] 1. intrant. 1. To 
finger idly or fondly; toy or trifle with the fin- 
gers, as in fondling. 
Paddling In your neck with his damn'd fingers. 
Skat., Hamlet, ill. 4. 186. 
2. To dabble or play about in or as in water. 
And then to paddle in the purer stream 
Of his [the Son of Glory's] spilt blood is more than most 
extreme. Quartet, Emblems, 111. 2. 
paddle-end 
\\f twa ha'e jxiiitt't i' the burn, 
Krae mornin' sun till ilihr. 
/.'"/MX, Anld Lang Syne. 
3. To sail or swim along or about with short 
strokes of a paddle or oar; row or move about 
or along by means of a paddle. 
.She was as lovely a pleasure-boat 
As ever fairy hail ixidilled in. 
J. II. Drake, Culprit Kay. 
4. To move along by means of paddles or float- 
boards, at* a steamboat. 
Round the lake 
A little clock-work steamer paddling piled, 
And shook the lilies. Tennyton, PrlnceH, Pro!. 
5. To move in the water by means of webbed 
feet, flippers, or fins, as a duck, turtle, fish. 
penguin, etc. 
Ducki paddle In the pond before the door. 
Couper, Retirement, 1. 499. 
II. trans. 1. To finger; play with; toy with. 
To be paddling palms and pinching Angers. 
Shot., W. T., i. Z. 115. 
2. To propel by paddle or oar: as, to paddle a 
canoe. 3. To strike with the open hand, or 
with some flat object, as a board ; spank. [Col- 
loq.] To paddle one's own canoe. See canoe. 
paddle 1 (pad'l), n. [< paddle 1 , v., in part con- 
fused with paddle*, n.] 1. An oar; specifically, 
a sort of short oar having one blade or two (one 
at each end), held in the hands (not resting in 
the rowlock) and dipped into the water with a 
more or less vertical motion : used especially 
for propelling canoes. 
He seized his paddle, and tried to back out of the snare. 
Kingstey, Hypatla, 111. 
2. The blade or broad part of an oar. 3. In 
zool.: (a) A fore limb constructed to answer 
the purpose of a fin or flipper, as that of a pen- 
guin, a whale, a sea-turtle, a plesiosaurus, or an 
ichthyosaurus. See cuts under Ichthyosauri!* 
and penguin, (b) In Ctenophora, one of the rows 
of cilia which run parallel with the longitudinal 
canals of the body ; a ctenophore or paddle-row. 
(c) The long flat snout of the paddle-fish. 4. 
One of the float-boards placed on the circumfer- 
ence of the paddle-wheel of a steamboat. 6. A 
panel made to fit the openings left in lock-gates 
and sluices for the purpose of letting the water 
in and out as may be required; aclough. 6. An 
implement with a flat broad blade and a handle, 
resembling a paddle. Specifically (a) In r/lan-mak- 
ing, a somewhat shovel-shaped implement used for stirring 
and mixing the materials. (6) In brickinakiny and similar 
industries, an instrument for tempering clay, (e) An im- 
plement used for beating garments while held in running 
water to wash. {</) See the quotation. 
The tools used by the puddler are not usually numerous, 
consisting only of a long straight chiselled-edged bar call- 
ed a paddle, and a hooked flat-ended bar known as the 
rabble. W. H. Greenwood, Steel and Iron, p. 280. 
7. The lump-fish, Cyclopterns lumpus. Seepad- 
dlecock. Also cockpaiale. [Eng.] 
paddle 2 (pad'l), n. [Also dial, paidle and 
pattle, pettle, appar. for orig. "xpaddle, dim. 
of spade: see spade 1 . The word nas been in 
part confused vnthpaddlc 1 , .] A small spade, 
especially a small spade used to clean a plow ; 
a plow-staff; a paddle-staff. 
Thou shall have a paddle upon thy weapon, . . . and . . . 
thoii Shalt dig therewith. Dent, xilli. IS. 
paddle-beam (pad'1-bem), n. One of two 
large beams projecting beyond the sides of a 
vessel, between which the paddle-wheels re- 
volve. 
paddle-board (pad'1-bord), n. Oneof the floats 
on the circumference of the paddle-wheel of a 
steam-vessel ; a paddle. 
paddle-boat (pad'1-bot), . A boat propelled 
by paddle-wheels. 
paddle-box (pad'1-boks), H. The box or sheath, 
of curved upper outline, which covers a paddle- 
wheel of a side-wheel steamer, to protect it and 
to keep it from throwing water on board the 
vessel. 
paddlecock (pad'1-kok), . [Also paidlecock, 
enckpaidlc; < paddle (f ) + cock 1 ."] The common 
lump-fish, Cyclopterns lumpua: so called in al- 
lusion to its dorsal ridge enveloped in tubercu- 
lar skin, which resembles the comb of the do- 
mestic cock. See cut under Cyclopterus. 
paddle-crab (pad'1-krab), n. A crab whose 
legs are flattened like the blade of a paddle and 
used for swimming; a swimming-crab. The 
common edible crab of the United States, Cal- 
linectrs liaxtatiis, is an example. Also pad- 
illiii<i-crab. See cut on following page. 
paddle-end (pad'1-end), n. A feature or ele- 
ment of ornamental design, consisting of an 
