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Begin file 7 of 11: P and Q. of An electronic field-marked version of:
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P , the sixteenth letter of the English alphabet, is a nonvocal consonant whose form and value come from the Latin, into which language the letter was brought, through the ancient Greek, from the Ph?nician, its probable origin being Egyptian. Etymologically P is most closely related to b, f, and v; as hobble, hopple; father, paternal; recipient, receive. See B, F, and M.
See Guide to Pronunciation, ?? 247, 248, and 184- 195.
Pa , n. A shortened form of Papa.
Pa"age , n. A toll for passage over another person's grounds. Burke.
||Paard , n. The zebra.
Paas , n. Pace Chaucer
Paas , n. The Easter festival. Bartlett.
Paas egg. See Easter egg, under Easter.
Pac , n. A kind of moccasin, having the edges of the sole turned up and sewed to the upper. Knight.
Pa"ca , n. A small South American rodent , having blackish brown fur, with four parallel rows of white spots along its sides; the spotted cavy. It is nearly allied to the agouti and the Guinea pig.
Pa"cate , a. Appeased; pacified; tranquil.
Pace , n. 1. A single movement from one foot to the other in walking; a step.
Ordinarily the pace is estimated at two and one half linear feet; but in measuring distances be stepping, the pace is extended to three feet or to three and three tenths feet . The regulation marching pace in the English and United States armies is thirty inches for quick time, and thirty-six inches for double time. The Roman pace was from the heel of one foot to the heel of the same foot when it next touched the ground, five Roman feet.
To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow, Creeps in this petty pace from day to day.
Shak.
In the military schools of riding a variety of paces are taught.
Walsh.
The first pace necessary for his majesty to make is to fall into confidence with Spain.
Sir W. Temple.
Geometrical pace, the space from heel to heel between the spot where one foot is set down and that where the same foot is again set down, loosely estimated at five feet, or by some at four feet and two fifths. See Roman pace in the Note under def. 2. -- To keep, or hold, pace with, to keep up with; to go as fast as. "In intellect and attainments he kept pace with his age." Southey.
Pace , v. i. 1. To go; to walk; specifically, to move with regular or measured steps. "I paced on slowly." Pope. "With speed so pace." Shak.
Or that I further in this tale pace.
Chaucer.
Pace, v. t. 1. To walk over with measured tread; to move slowly over or upon; as, the guard paces his round. "Pacing light the velvet plain." T. Warton.
If you can, pace your wisdom In that good path that I would wish it go.
Shak
To pace the web , to wind up the cloth on the beam, periodically, as it is woven, in a loom.
Paced , a. Having, or trained in, a pace or gait; trained; -- used in composition; as, slow- paced; a thorough-paced villain.
Pa"cer , n. One who, or that which, paces; especially, a horse that paces.
Pach"y- . A combining form meaning thick; as, pachyderm, pachydactyl.
Pacific Ocean, the ocean between America and Asia, so called by Magellan, its first European navigator, on account of the exemption from violent tempests which he enjoyed while sailing over it; -- called also, simply, the Pacific, and, formerly, the South sea.
Syn. -- Peacemaking; appeasing; conciliatory; tranquil; calm; quiet; peaceful; reconciling; mild; gentle.
To pacify and settle those countries.
Bacon.
Pacinian corpuscles, small oval bodies terminating some of the minute branches of the sensory nerves in the integument and other parts of the body. They are supposed to be tactile organs.
Pack , n. A pact. Daniel.
Pack, n.
"In England, by a pack of meal is meant 280 lbs.; of wool, 240 lbs." McElrath.
Pack animal, an animal, as a horse, mule, etc., employed in carrying packs. -- Pack cloth, a coarse cloth, often duck, used in covering packs or bales. -- Pack horse. See Pack animal . -- Pack ice. See def. 4, above. -- Pack moth , a small moth which, in the larval state, is very destructive to wool and woolen fabrics. -- Pack needle, a needle for sewing with pack thread. Piers Plowman. -- Pack saddle, a saddle made for supporting the load on a pack animal. Shak. -- Pack staff, a staff for supporting a pack; a peddler's staff. -- Pack thread, strong thread or small twine used for tying packs or parcels. -- Pack train , a troop of pack animals.
Pack , v. t. 1. 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.
Strange materials packed up with wonderful art.
Addison.
Where . . . the bones Of all my buried ancestors are packed.
Shak.
And mighty dukes pack cards for half a crown.
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