PAD

A footpath; a road. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]

An easy-paced horse; a padnag. Addison An abbot on an ambling pad. Tennyson.

A robber that infests the road on foot; a highwayman; -- usually called a footpad. Gay. Byron.

The act of robbing on the highway. [Obs.]

To travel upon foot; to tread. [Obs.] Padding the streets for half a crown. Somerville.

To travel heavily or slowly. Bunyan.

To rob on foot. [Obs.] Cotton Mather.

To wear a path by walking. [Prov. Eng.]

A soft, or small, cushion; a mass of anything soft; stuffing.

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.

A cushion used as a saddle without a tree or frame.

A stuffed guard or protection; esp., one worn on the legs of horses to prevent bruising.

A cushionlike thickening of the skin one the under side of the toes of animals.

A floating leaf of a water lily or similar plant.

A soft bag or cushion to relieve pressure, support a part, etc.

A piece of timber fixed on a beam to fit the curve of the deck. W. C. Russel.

A measure for fish; as, sixty mackerel go to a pad; a basket of soles. [Eng.] Simmonds. Pad cloth, a saddlecloth; a housing. -- Pad saddle. See def. 3, above. -- Pad tree (Harness Making), a piece of wood or metal which gives rigidity and shape to a harness pad. Knight.

To stuff; to furnish with a pad or padding.

To imbue uniformly with a mordant; as, to pad cloth. Ure.