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verfions of fevers! of Ariftotle’s works, which have 
ranked as models of tranflations. The great honours and 
emoluments which he received, and the contefts which 
fubfifted among the mod famous univerfities to obtain 
poffefiion of him, fufficiently prove that he was one of 
the moft confiderable fcholars of that period. The titles 
of his moft important works are, i. De Contraftibus. 
i. Synopfis Juris. 3. De jure Maris Adriatic - !. 4. Cor¬ 
pus juris Civilis. Ke wrote a treatife on arithmetic at 
the age of thirteen. Niccron. 
PACIVT'jRI, in botany. See Carina. 
PACK, v. n. [pack, Teut. pacqvet, Fr.] A large bun¬ 
dle of any thing tied up for carriage.—Themiftocles-faid 
to the king of Perfia, that fpeech was like cloth of Arras 
opened and put abroad, whereby the imagery appears in 
figures ; whereas, in thoughts, they lie but as in packs, 
liasqn. —A puck of wool is a horfe’s load, containing fe- 
venteen ftone and two pounds, or 2.40 pounds weight. 
Chambers. 
Our knight did bear no lefts a pack 
Of his own buttocks on his back. Hudihras. 
A burden ; a load.—But, when they took notice how ftu- 
pid a heart it was, they loaded it with packs and burdens, 
and fet boys upon the back of it. L'E/irange. 
I rather chofe 
To crof? my friend in his intended, drift, 
Than, by concealing it, heap on your head 
A pack of forrows. Shakefpeai e's Two Gent, of Verona. 
A due number of cards.—It is wonderful to fee perfons 
of fenfe parting away a dozen hours together in fhuftling 
and dividing a pack of cards. Add-on. 
Women to cards may be compar’d ; we play 
A round or two; when us’d, we throw awsy, 
Take a freih pack. Granville. 
A number of hounds hunting together.—Two ghofts join 
their packs to hunt her o’er the plain. Dryden. 
The fury fires the pack; they fnuff, they vent, 
And feed their hungry noftrils with the feent. Dryden. 
A number of people confederated in any bad defign or 
piraftice.—You panderly rafeals! there’s a knot, a gang, 
a pack, a confpiracy, againft me. Skakefpeare's M. Wives 
of WindJ'or.— Ne'ver fuch a pack of knaves and villains as 
they who now governed in the parliament. Clarendon. — 
Bickerftaff is more a man of honour than to be an ac¬ 
complice with a pack of rafeals that walk the ftreets on 
nights. Swift. —Any great number, as to quantity and 
prefiure : as, a pack of troubles, corrupted by the vulgar 
into a peck of troubles.—A loofe or lewd perfon, [pseca, 
from paecan, Sax. to deceive by falfe appearances. H. 
Tooke .] It was probably a cant term.—Some lofels, fome 
naughty paekes. Skelton. —Young wanton wenches and 
beguines, nunnes and naughty packs World of Wonders. 
To PACK, v a. [packen, Teut.] To bind up for car¬ 
riage.—What we looked upon a's brains, were an heap of 
flrange materials, packed up with wonderful art in the 
fkuli. Addifon. 
R«folv'd for fea, the flaves thy baggage pack, 
Each faddied with his burthen on his back. Dryden. 
To fend in a hurry : 
He cannot live, I hope, and mu ft not die, 
Till George be pack'd with poft-horle up to heav'n. 
Shakefpfeare. 
To fort the cards fo as that the game (hall be iniquitoufly 
fecured. It is applied to any iniquitous procurement of 
collufion. [This and the following fenfe are to be referred, 
as Mr. H. Tooke has rtiown, to the Saxon p^can, fo coun¬ 
terfeit, to a£t collufively, so cheat.]—There be that can 
pack cards, and yet cannot play well; fo there are fome 
that are good in canvafles and factions, that are other- 
wife weak men. Bacon's EJfays. 
The judge (hall job, the hilltop bite the town, • 
And mighty dukes pack cards for half a crown. Pope. 
To unite picked perfons in fome bad defign.—The ex¬ 
pended council was dwindling into a conventicle; a packed 
affembly of Italian hilltops, not a free convention of fa¬ 
thers from all quarters. Alterbury. 
When they have pack'd a parliament, 
We’ll once more try th’expedient: 
Who can already mufter friends, 
To ferve for members to our ends. Hudibras , 
To PACK, v. a. To tie up goods: 
The marigold, whofe courtier’s face 
Echoes the fun, and doth unlace 
Her at his rife, at his full Hop 
Packs and Units up her gaudy Ihop. Cleaveland. 
To go off in a hurry ; to remove in hafte. A cant word .— 
The wind no fooner came good, but away pack the gal¬ 
leys with all the hafte they could. Carew.—A thief kin¬ 
dled his torch at Jupiter’s altar, and then robbed the 
temple : as he was packing • away with his facrilegious bur¬ 
den, a voice purfued him. L'Ejirange. 
Poor Stella muft pack off to town, 
From purling ftreams and fountains bubbling, 
To Liffy’s ltinking tide at Dublin. < Swift. 
To concert bad meafures ; to confederate in ill; to prae- 
tife unlawful confederacy or collufion.— Go, puck with 
him. Titus Andronicus. —That this fo profitable a mer- 
chandife rifeth not to a proportionable enhauncement 
with other lefs beneficial commodities, they impute part¬ 
ly to the eaftern buyers packing, partly to the owners not 
venting the fame. Carew. 
PACK'-CLOTH, /! A cloth in which goods are tied tip. 
PACK'-HORSE, f. A horie of burden; a h.orfe em¬ 
ployed in carrying goods.— It is not to be expefted that'a 
man, who drudges on in a laborious trade, fliould be 
more knowing in the variety of things done in the world, 
than a pacli-horfe, who is driven conftantly forwards and 
backwards to market, fliould be fkilled in the geography 
of the country. Locke. 
Ere you were queen, ay, or your hufband king, 
I was a pack lwrfe in his great affairs. Shakefpearc. 
PACK'-SADDLE, f. A faddle on which burdens are 
laid.—Your beards del’erve not fo honourable a grave ae 
to fluff a butcher’s cufhion, or to be entombed in an afs’s 
pack fuddle. Skakefpeare's Coriol. —The bunch on a camel’s 
back may be inltead of a pack-faddle, to receive the bur¬ 
then. More agaiifi Athejhi. 
PACK'-STAFF, f. A lira ft" by which a pedlar occafion- 
ally fupports his pack —It is probable, that the plirafe, 
“ as plain as a pike-fluff ," is a corruption of the word be¬ 
fore 11s. Yet none of our lexicographers have noticed 
pack fluff. Todd. —A pack Jlajfc epithet, and fcorned name. 
Marjion's Scourge of Vill. 
Some fay, my liitires over loofely flow, 
Nor hide their gall enough from open (how; 
Not, riddle like, 9 b feu ring their intent; 
But, pack fiaffeplume, uttering what thing they ment. 
Sip. Hall. 
PACK'-TPIREAD, f. Strong thread ufed in tying up 
parcels.—Girding or the body of the tree about with pack- 
thread reftraineth the fap. Bacon’s Nat. Hijl. 
About his (helves 
Remnants of pack thread, and old cakes of rofes 
Were thinly Scatter’d. Shakefpeare's Horn, and Juliet. 
PACK'-WAX, f. [more frequently written pax-wax.'] 
Several parts peculiar to brutes are wanting in man, as 
the Itrong aposieuroles of the neck called pack-wax. Ray. 
— Along each fide of tile neck of large quadrupeds runs 
a (tiff robult cartilage, which butchers call the pax-wax. 
Patey's IS at. Tkeol. 
PACK'AGE, 
