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East men; Danish settlers in Ireland, formerly so called. Lyttelton.

it 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.

dherents of the Zoroastrian or ancient Persian religion, descended from Persian refugees settled in India; a fire worshiper; a Gheber.

r ecclesiastical society, and appropriated to the maintenance or use of the incumbent or settled pastor.

Hence: A small piece of anything used to repair a breach; as, a patch on a kettle, a roof, etc.

eneration, and method of development, of disease; as, the pathogeny of yellow fever is unsettled.

certain rank, without deductions. -- Half pay. See under Half. -- Pay day, the day of settlement of accounts. -- Pay dirt (Mining), earth which yields a profit to the miner. [Western U.S.] -- Pay office, a place where payment is made. -- Pay roll, a roll or list of persons entitled to payment, with the amounts due…

That may be discharged or settled by delivery of value.

e common name of the several species of the genus Parietaria, low, harmless weeds of the Nettle family; -- also called wall pellitory, and lichwort.

Inflicted as punishment; used as a means of punishment; as, a penal colony or settlement. "Adamantine chains and penal fire." Milton. Penal code (Law), a code of laws concerning crimes and offenses and their punishment. -- Penal laws, Penal statutes (Law), laws prohibited certain acts, and imposing penalties for commi…

A settler; an inhabitant. "Peoplers of the peaceful glen." J. S. Blackie.

To alight or settle, as a bird; to sit or roost. Wrens make prey where eagles dare not perch. Shak.

The state of being persuaded or convinced; settled opinion or conviction, which has been induced. If the general persuasion of all men does so account it. Hooker. My firm persuasion is, at least sometimes, That Heaven will weigh man's virtues and his crimes With nice attention. Cowper.

e to him." Sir P. Sidney. Thy mother was a piece of virtue. Shak. His own spirit is as unsettled a piece as there is in all the world. Coleridge. a piece of cake, a task easily accomplished. a piece of work, a disparaging term for a person considered to have an excess of some undesirable quality; esp. difficult or ecce…

e one hundred and two English colonists who landed from the Mayflower and made the first settlement in New England at Plymouth in

shrub itself; -- called also Pinxter blomachee by the New York descendants of the Dutch settlers.

To wound the pride of; to sting; to nettle; to irritate; to fret; to offend; to excite to anger. Pique her, and soothe in turn. Byron.

To light; to settle; to come to rest from flight. The tree whereon they [the bees] pitch. Mortimer.

or place, or in a certain relative position; to direct to a particular place; to fix; to settle; to locate; as, to place a book on a shelf; to place balls in tennis. Upon my head they placed a fruitless crown. Shak.

To furnish with a fixed and organized population; to settle; to establish; as, to plant a colony. Planting of countries like planting of woods. Bacon.