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  • English Word Pachyglossal Definition Having a thick tongue; -- applied to a group of lizards (Pachyglossae), including the iguanas and agamas.
  • English Word Pachymeningitis Definition Inflammation of the dura mater or outer membrane of the brain.
  • English Word Pachymeter Definition Same as Pachometer.
  • English Word Pachyote Definition One of a family of bats, including those which have thick external ears.
  • English Word Pacifiable Definition Capable of being pacified or appeased; placable.
  • English Word Pacific Definition Of or pertaining to peace; suited to make or restore peace; of a peaceful character; not warlike; not quarrelsome; conciliatory; as, pacific words or acts; a pacific nature or condition.
  • English Word Pacificable Definition Placable.
  • English Word Pacifical Definition Of or pertaining to peace; pacific.
  • English Word Pacification Definition The act or process of pacifying, or of making peace between parties at variance; reconciliation.
  • English Word Pacificator Definition One who, or that which, pacifies; a peacemaker.
  • English Word Pacificatory Definition Tending to make peace; conciliatory.
  • English Word Pacified Definition of Pacify
  • English Word Pacify Definition To make to be at peace; to appease; to calm; to still; to quiet; to allay the agitation, excitement, or resentment of; to tranquillize; as, to pacify a man when angry; to pacify pride, appetite, or importunity.
  • English Word Pacifying Definition of Pacify
  • English Word Pacing Definition of Pace
  • English Word Pacinian Definition Of, pertaining to, or discovered by, Filippo Pacini, an Italian physician of the 19th century.
  • English Word Pack Definition 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.
  • English Word Pack Definition To unite in bad measures; to confederate for ill purposes; to join in collusion.
  • English Word Pack Definition To depart in haste; -- generally with off or away.
  • English Word Pack Definition To gather in flocks or schools; as, the grouse or the perch begin to pack.
  • English Word Pack Definition 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.
  • English Word Pack Definition To make up packs, bales, or bundles; to stow articles securely for transportation.
  • English Word Pack Definition 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.
  • English Word Pack Definition To envelop in a wet or dry sheet, within numerous coverings. See Pack, n., 5.
  • English Word Pack Definition To transport in a pack, or in the manner of a pack (i. e., on the backs of men or beasts).
  • English Word Pack Definition 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.
  • English Word Pack Definition To load with a pack; hence, to load; to encumber; as, to pack a horse.
  • English Word Pack Definition To contrive unfairly or fraudulently; to plot.
  • English Word Pack Definition To sort and arrange (the cards) in a pack so as to secure the game unfairly.
  • English Word Pack Definition 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.