Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Pacu

Pa″cu (?), n.(Zoöl.) A South American fresh-water fish (Myletes pacu), of the family Characinidæ. It is highly esteemed as food.

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Pad

Pad (păd), n. [D. pad. √21. See Path.] 1. A footpath; a road.2. An easy-paced horse; a padnag. AddisonAn abbot on an ambling pad. Tennyson.3. A robber that infests the road on f...

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Pad (2)

Pad, v. t. To travel upon foot; to tread.Padding the streets for half a crown. Somerville.

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Pad (3)

Pad, v. i. 1. To travel heavily or slowly. Bunyan.2. To rob on foot. Cotton Mather.3. To wear a path by walking.

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Pad (4)

Pad, n. [Perh. akin to pod.] 1. A soft, or small, cushion; a mass of anything soft; stuffing.2. A kind of cushion for writing upon, or for blotting; esp., one formed of many fla...

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Pad (5)

Pad, v. t. [imp. & p. p.Padded; p. pr. & vb. n.Padding.] 1. To stuff; to furnish with a pad or padding.2. (Calico Printing) To imbue uniformly with a mordant; as, to pad cloth. ...

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Pad elephant

Pad elephant. An elephant that is furnished with a pad for carrying burdens instead of with a howdah for carrying passengers.

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Padar

Pad″ar (?), n. Groats; coarse flour or meal. Sir. H. Wotton.

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Padder

Pad″der (?), n. 1. One who, or that which, pads.2. A highwayman; a footpad.

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Padding

Pad″ding, n. 1. The act or process of making a pad or of inserting stuffing.2. The material with which anything is padded.3. Material of inferior value, serving to extend a book...

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Paddle

Pad″dle (?), v. i. [Prob. for pattle, and a dim. of pat, v.; cf. also E. pad to tread, Prov. G. paddeln, padden, to walk with short steps, to paddle, G. patschen to splash, dash...

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Paddle (2)

Pad″dle, v. t. [imp. & p. p.Paddled (?); p. pr. & vb. n.Paddling (?)] 1. To pat or stroke amorously, or gently.To be paddling palms and pinching fingers. Shak.2. To propel with,...

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Paddle (3)

Pad″dle, n. [See Paddle, v. i.] 1. An implement with a broad blade, which is used without a fixed fulcrum in propelling and steering canoes and boats.2. The broad part of a padd...

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Paddlecock

Pad″dle‐cock′ (?), n.(Zoöl.) The lumpfish.

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Paddlefish

Pad″dle‐fish′ (?), n.(Zoöl) A large ganoid fish (Polyodon spathula) found in the rivers of the Mississippi Valley. It has a long spatula-shaped snout. Called also duck-billed ca...

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Paddler

Pad″dler (?), n. One who, or that which, paddles.

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Paddlewood

Pad″dle‐wood′ (?), n.(Bot.) The light elastic wood of the Aspidosperma excelsum, a tree of Guiana having a fluted trunk readily split into planks.

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Paddock

Pad″dock (?), n. [OE. padde toad, frog + -ock; akin to D. pad, padde, toad, Icel. & Sw. padda, Dan. padde.] (Zoöl.) A toad or frog. Wyclif. “Loathed paddocks.” SpenserPaddock pi...

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Paddock (2)

Pad″dock, n. [Corrupted fr. parrock. See Parrock.]1. A small inclosure or park for sporting.2. A small inclosure for pasture; esp., one adjoining a stable. Evelyn. Cowper.

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Paddy

Pad″dy (?), a. [Prov. E. paddy worm-eaten.] Low; mean; boorish; vagabond. “Such pady persons.” Digges (1585). “The paddy persons.” Motley.

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Paddy (2)

Pad″dy, n.; pl.Paddies (#). [Corrupted fr. St. Patrick, the tutelar saint of Ireland.] A jocose or contemptuous name for an Irishman.

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Paddy (3)

Pad″dy, n. [Either fr. Canarese bhatta or Malay pādī.] (Bot.) Unhusked rice; — commonly so called in the East Indies.Paddy bird. (Zoöl.) See Java sparrow, under Java.

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Padelion

Pad′e‐li″on (?), n. [F. pas de lion lion's foot.] (Bot.) A plant with pedately lobed leaves; the lady's mantle.

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Padella

‖Pa‐del″la (?), n. [It., prop., a pan, a friing pan, fr. L. patella a pan.] A large cup or deep saucer, containing fatty matter in which a wick is placed, — used for public illu...

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Pademelon

Pad′e‐mel″on (?), n.(Zoöl.) See Wallaby.

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Padesoy

Pad″e‐soy′ (?), n. See Paduasoy.

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Padge

Padge, n.(Zoöl.) The barn owl; — called also pudge, and pudge owl.