PPage 5
- 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 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 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 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.
- English Word Pack Definition 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.
- English Word Pack Definition A loose, lewd, or worthless person. See Baggage.
- English Word Pack Definition A number of persons associated or leagued in a bad design or practice; a gang; as, a pack of thieves or knaves.
- English Word Pack Definition A number or quantity equal to the contents of a pack; hence, a multitude; a burden.
- English Word Pack Definition A number or quantity of connected or similar things
- English Word Pack Definition An envelope, or wrapping, of sheets used in hydropathic practice, called dry pack, wet pack, cold pack, etc., according to the method of treatment.
- English Word Pack Definition A full set of playing cards; also, the assortment used in a particular game; as, a euchre pack.
- English Word Pack Definition A number of hounds or dogs, hunting or kept together.
- English Word Pack Definition A large area of floating pieces of ice driven together more or less closely.
- English Word Pack Definition A pact.