| Pad |
n. |
A footpath; a road. |
| Pad |
n. |
An easy-paced horse; a padnag. |
| Pad |
n. |
A robber that infests the road on foot; a highwayman;
usually called a footpad. |
| Pad |
n. |
The act of robbing on the highway. |
| Pad |
v. t. |
To travel upon foot; to tread. |
| Pad |
v. i. |
To travel heavily or slowly. |
| Pad |
v. i. |
To rob on foot. |
| Pad |
v. i. |
To wear a path by walking. |
| Pad |
n. |
A soft, or small, cushion; a mass of anything soft; stuffing. |
| Pad |
n. |
A kind of cushion for writing upon, or for blotting; esp., one formed of many flat sheets of writing paper, or layers of blotting paper; a block of paper. |
| Pad |
n. |
A cushion used as a saddle without a tree or frame. |
| Pad |
n. |
A stuffed guard or protection; esp., one worn on the legs of horses to prevent bruising. |
| Pad |
n. |
A cushionlike thickening of the skin one the under side of the toes of animals. |
| Pad |
n. |
A floating leaf of a water lily or similar plant. |
| Pad |
n. |
A soft bag or cushion to relieve pressure, support a part, etc. |
| Pad |
n. |
A piece of timber fixed on a beam to fit the curve of the deck. |
| Pad |
n. |
A measure for fish; as, sixty mackerel go to a pad; a basket of soles. |
| Pad |
v. t. |
To stuff; to furnish with a pad or padding. |
| Pad |
v. t. |
To imbue uniformly with a mordant; as, to pad cloth. |
| Pad elephant |
|
An elephant that is furnished with a pad for carrying burdens instead of with a howdah for carrying passengers. |
| Padar |
n. |
Groats; coarse flour or meal. |
| Padded |
imp. & p. p. |
of Pad |
| Padder |
n. |
One who, or that which, pads. |
| Padder |
n. |
A highwayman; a footpad. |
| Padder |
n. |
One who, or that which, paddles. |
| Paddies |
pl. |
of Paddy |
| Padding |
p. pr. & vb. n. |
of Pad |
| Padding |
n. |
The act or process of making a pad or of inserting stuffing. |
| Padding |
n. |
The material with which anything is padded. |
| Padding |
n. |
Material of inferior value, serving to extend a book, essay, etc. |
| Padding |
n. |
The uniform impregnation of cloth with a mordant. |
| Paddle |
v. i. |
To use the hands or fingers in toying; to make caressing strokes. |
| Paddle |
v. i. |
To dabble in water with hands or feet; to use a paddle, or something which serves as a paddle, in swimming, in paddling a boat, etc. |
| Paddle |
v. t. |
To pat or stroke amorously, or gently. |
| Paddle |
v. t. |
To propel with, or as with, a paddle or paddles. |
| Paddle |
v. t. |
To pad; to tread upon; to trample. |
| Paddle |
v. i. |
An implement with a broad blade, which is used without a fixed fulcrum in propelling and steering canoes and boats. |
| Paddle |
v. i. |
The broad part of a paddle, with which the stroke is made; hence, any short, broad blade, resembling that of a paddle. |
| Paddle |
v. i. |
One of the broad boards, or floats, at the circumference of a water wheel, or paddle wheel. |
| Paddle |
v. i. |
A small gate in sluices or lock gates to admit or let off water;
also called clough. |
| Paddle |
v. i. |
A paddle-shaped foot, as of the sea turtle. |
| Paddle |
v. i. |
A paddle-shaped implement for string or mixing. |
| Paddle |
v. i. |
See Paddle staff (b), below. |
| Paddlecock |
n. |
The lumpfish. |
| Paddled |
imp. & p. p. |
of Paddle |
| Paddlefish |
n. |
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 cat, and spoonbill sturgeon. |
| Paddlewood |
n. |
The light elastic wood of the Aspidosperma excelsum, a tree of Guiana having a fluted trunk readily split into planks. |
| Paddling |
p. pr. & vb. n. |
of Paddle |
| Paddock |
n. |
A toad or frog. |
| Paddock |
n. |
A small inclosure or park for sporting. |
| Paddock |
n. |
A small inclosure for pasture; esp., one adjoining a stable. |
| Paddy |
a. |
Low; mean; boorish; vagabond. |
| Paddy |
n. |
A jocose or contemptuous name for an Irishman. |
| Paddy |
n. |
Unhusked rice;
commonly so called in the East Indies. |
| Padelion |
n. |
A plant with pedately lobed leaves; the lady's mantle. |
| Padella |
n. |
A large cup or deep saucer, containing fatty matter in which a wick is placed,
used for public illuminations, as at St. Peter's, in Rome. Called also padelle. |
| Pademelon |
n. |
See Wallaby. |
| Padesoy |
n. |
See Paduasoy. |
| Padge |
n. |
The barn owl;
called also pudge, and pudge owl. |
| Padishah |
n. |
Chief ruler; monarch; sovereign;
a title of the Sultan of Turkey, and of the Shah of Persia. |
| Padlock |
n. |
A portable lock with a bow which is usually jointed or pivoted at one end so that it can be opened, the other end being fastened by the bolt,
used for fastening by passing the bow through a staple over a hasp or through the links of a chain, etc. |
| Padlock |
n. |
Fig.: A curb; a restraint. |
| Padlock |
v. t. |
To fasten with, or as with, a padlock; to stop; to shut; to confine as by a padlock. |
| Padlocked |
imp. & p. p. |
of Padlock |
| Padlocking |
p. pr. & vb. n. |
of Padlock |
| Padnag |
n. |
An ambling nag. |
| Padow |
n. |
A paddock, or toad. |
| Padre |
n. |
A Christian priest or monk;
used in Italy, Spain, Portugal, and Spanish America. |
| Padre |
n. |
In India (from the Portuguese), any Christian minister; also, a priest of the native region. |
| Padres |
pl. |
of Padre |
| Padri |
pl. |
of Padre |
| Padrone |
n. |
A patron; a protector. |
| Padrone |
n. |
The master of a small coaster in the Mediterranean. |
| Padrone |
n. |
A man who imports, and controls the earnings of, Italian laborers, street musicians, etc. |
| Padrones |
pl. |
of Padrone |
| Padroni |
pl. |
of Padrone |
| Paduasoy |
n. |
A rich and heavy silk stuff. |
| Paducahs |
n. pl. |
See Comanches. |
