| Pack |
n. |
In hydropathic practice, a wrapping of blankets or sheets called dry pack, wet pack, cold pack, etc., according to the condition of the blankets or sheets used, put about a patient to give him treatment; also, the fact or condition of being so treated. |
| Pack |
n. |
The forwards who compose one half of the scrummage; also, the scrummage. |
| Pack |
v. t. |
To cover, envelop, or protect tightly with something; |
| Pack |
v. t. |
to envelop in a wet or dry sheet, within numerous coverings. |
| Pack |
n. |
A pact. |
| Pack |
n. |
A bundle made up and prepared to be carried; especially, a bundle to be carried on the back; a load for an animal; a bale, as of goods. |
| Pack |
n. |
A number or quantity equal to the contents of a pack; hence, a multitude; a burden. |
| Pack |
n. |
A number or quantity of connected or similar things |
| Pack |
n. |
A full set of playing cards; also, the assortment used in a particular game; as, a euchre pack. |
| Pack |
n. |
A number of hounds or dogs, hunting or kept together. |
| Pack |
n. |
A number of persons associated or leagued in a bad design or practice; a gang; as, a pack of thieves or knaves. |
| Pack |
n. |
A shook of cask staves. |
| Pack |
n. |
A bundle of sheet-iron plates for rolling simultaneously. |
| Pack |
n. |
A large area of floating pieces of ice driven together more or less closely. |
| Pack |
n. |
An envelope, or wrapping, of sheets used in hydropathic practice, called dry pack, wet pack, cold pack, etc., according to the method of treatment. |
| Pack |
n. |
A loose, lewd, or worthless person. See Baggage. |
| Pack |
n. |
To make a pack of; to arrange closely and securely in a pack; hence, to place and arrange compactly as in a pack; to press into close order or narrow compass; as to pack goods in a box; to pack fish. |
| Pack |
n. |
To fill in the manner of a pack, that is, compactly and securely, as for transportation; hence, to fill closely or to repletion; to stow away within; to cause to be full; to crowd into; as, to pack a trunk; the play, or the audience, packs the theater. |
| Pack |
n. |
To sort and arrange (the cards) in a pack so as to secure the game unfairly. |
| Pack |
n. |
Hence: To bring together or make up unfairly and fraudulently, in order to secure a certain result; as, to pack a jury or a causes. |
| Pack |
n. |
To contrive unfairly or fraudulently; to plot. |
| Pack |
n. |
To load with a pack; hence, to load; to encumber; as, to pack a horse. |
| Pack |
n. |
To cause to go; to send away with baggage or belongings; esp., to send away peremptorily or suddenly;
sometimes with off; as, to pack a boy off to school. |
| Pack |
n. |
To transport in a pack, or in the manner of a pack (i. e., on the backs of men or beasts). |
| Pack |
n. |
To envelop in a wet or dry sheet, within numerous coverings. See Pack, n., 5. |
| Pack |
n. |
To render impervious, as by filling or surrounding with suitable material, or to fit or adjust so as to move without giving passage to air, water, or steam; as, to pack a joint; to pack the piston of a steam engine. |
| Pack |
v. i. |
To make up packs, bales, or bundles; to stow articles securely for transportation. |
| Pack |
v. i. |
To admit of stowage, or of making up for transportation or storage; to become compressed or to settle together, so as to form a compact mass; as, the goods pack conveniently; wet snow packs well. |
| Pack |
v. i. |
To gather in flocks or schools; as, the grouse or the perch begin to pack. |
| Pack |
v. i. |
To depart in haste;
generally with off or away. |
| Pack |
v. i. |
To unite in bad measures; to confederate for ill purposes; to join in collusion. |
| Pack herse |
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See under 2d Pack. |
| Pack saddle |
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Alt. of Pack thread |
| Pack thread |
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See under 2d Pack. |
| Package |
n. |
Act or process of packing. |
| Package |
n. |
A bundle made up for transportation; a packet; a bale; a parcel; as, a package of goods. |
| Package |
n. |
A charge made for packing goods. |
| Package |
n. |
A duty formerly charged in the port of London on goods imported or exported by aliens, or by denizens who were the sons of aliens. |
| Packed |
imp. & p. p. |
of Pack |
| Packer |
n. |
A ring of packing or a special device to render gas-tight and water-tight the space between the tubing and bore of an oil well. |
| Packer |
n. |
A person whose business is to pack things; especially, one who packs food for preservation; as, a pork packer. |
| Packet |
n. |
A small pack or package; a little bundle or parcel; as, a packet of letters. |
| Packet |
n. |
Originally, a vessel employed by government to convey dispatches or mails; hence, a vessel employed in conveying dispatches, mails, passengers, and goods, and having fixed days of sailing; a mail boat. |
| Packet |
v. t. |
To make up into a packet or bundle. |
| Packet |
v. t. |
To send in a packet or dispatch vessel. |
| Packet |
v. i. |
To ply with a packet or dispatch boat. |
| Packeted |
imp. & p. p. |
of Packet |
| Packeting |
p. pr. & vb. n. |
of Packet |
| Packfong |
n. |
A Chinese alloy of nickel, zinc, and copper, resembling German silver. |
| Packhouse |
n. |
Warehouse for storing goods. |
| Packing |
p. pr. & vb. n. |
of Pack |
| Packing |
n. |
The act or process of one who packs. |
| Packing |
n. |
Any material used to pack, fill up, or make close. |
| Packing |
n. |
A substance or piece used to make a joint impervious |
| Packing |
n. |
A thin layer, or sheet, of yielding or elastic material inserted between the surfaces of a flange joint. |
| Packing |
n. |
The substance in a stuffing box, through which a piston rod slides. |
| Packing |
n. |
A yielding ring, as of metal, which surrounds a piston and maintains a tight fit, as inside a cylinder, etc. |
| Packing |
n. |
Same as Filling. |
| Packing |
n. |
A trick; collusion. |
| Packman |
n. |
One who bears a pack; a peddler. |
| Packmen |
pl. |
of Packman |
| Packwax |
n. |
Same as Paxwax. |
| Packway |
n. |
A path, as over mountains, followed by pack animals. |
