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Definition & Synonyms
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• Pack
- (n.) The forwards who compose one half of the scrummage; also, the scrummage.
- (v. t.) To cover, envelop, or protect tightly with something;
- (v. t.) to envelop in a wet or dry sheet, within numerous coverings.
- (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.
- (v. i.) To gather in flocks or schools; as, the grouse or the perch begin to 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.
- (n.) A number of hounds or dogs, hunting or kept together.
- (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.
- (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.
- (n.) To contrive unfairly or fraudulently; to plot.
- (n.) A full set of playing cards; also, the assortment used in a particular game; as, a euchre pack.
- (n.) A shook of cask staves.
- (v. i.) To depart in haste; -- generally with off or away.
- (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.
- (n.) A number of persons associated or leagued in a bad design or practice; a gang; as, a pack of thieves or knaves.
- (n.) A pact.
- (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.
- (n.) To sort and arrange (the cards) in a pack so as to secure the game unfairly.
- (v. i.) To make up packs, bales, or bundles; to stow articles securely for transportation.
- (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.
- (n.) A number or quantity equal to the contents of a pack; hence, a multitude; a burden.
- (v. i.) To unite in bad measures; to confederate for ill purposes; to join in collusion.
- (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.
- (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.
- (n.) To load with a pack; hence, to load; to encumber; as, to pack a horse.
- (n.) A number or quantity of connected or similar things
- (n.) To transport in a pack, or in the manner of a pack (i. e., on the backs of men or beasts).
- (n.) A large area of floating pieces of ice driven together more or less closely.
- (n.) A bundle of sheet-iron plates for rolling simultaneously.
- (n.) To envelop in a wet or dry sheet, within numerous coverings. See Pack, n., 5.
- (n.) A loose, lewd, or worthless person. See Baggage.
Synonyms:
Battalion, Bundle, Camp, Carry, Clique, Compact, Coterie, Cram, Gang, Jam, Mob, Multitude, Pile, Ram, Ring, Take, Tamp, Throng, Wad,
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• Packmen
- (pl. ) of Packman
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• 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.
- (v. t.) To send in a packet or dispatch vessel.
- (v. i.) To ply with a packet or dispatch boat.
- (v. t.) To make up into a packet or bundle.
- (n.) A small pack or package; a little bundle or parcel; as, a packet of letters.
Synonyms:
Bundle, Package, Parcel,
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