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make a firm, level, or convenient surface for horses, carriages, or persons on foot, to travel on; to floor with brick, stone, or other solid material; as, to pave a street; to pave a court. With silver paved, and all divine with gold. Dryden. To pave thy realm, and smooth the broken ways. Gay.

oor or covering of solid material, laid so as to make a hard and convenient surface for travel; a paved road or sidewalk; a decorative interior floor of tiles or colored bricks. The riches of heaven's pavement, trodden gold. Milton. Pavement teeth (Zoöl.), flattened teeth which in certain fishes, as the skates and cest…

cteristic of a peacock; resembling the tail of a peacock, as in colors; iridescent. P. Cleaveland.

To travel about with wares for sale; to go from place to place, or from house to house, for the purpose of retailing goods; as, to peddle without a license.

One who peddles; a traveling trader; one who travels about, retailing small wares; a hawker. [Written also pedlar and pedler.] "Some vagabond huckster or peddler." Hakluyt.

A walker; one who journeys on foot; a foot traveler; specif., a professional walker or runner.

The act, art, or practice of a pedestrian; walking or running; traveling or racing on foot.

To practice walking; to travel on foot.

To travel over or through. [Obs.]

To walk through or over; especially, to travel over for the purpose of surveying or examining; to inspect by traversing; specifically, to inspect officially the boundaries of, as of a town or parish, by walking over the whole line.

er the ground, with an apparatus of clockwork, and a dial plate upon which the distance traveled is shown by an index. See Odometer.

To travel from place to place, or from one country to another; hence, to sojourn in foreign countries.

A traveling from one country to another; a wandering; sojourn in foreign countries. "His peregrination abroad." Bacon.

One who peregrinates; one who travels about.

Travel; wandering. [R.] Carlyle.

To involve; to entangle; to make intricate or complicated, and difficult to be unraveled or understood; as, to perplex one with doubts. No artful wildness to perplex the scene. Pope. What was thought obscure, perplexed, and too hard for our weak parts, will lie open to the understanding in a fair view. Locke.…

difficulty; embarrassment; bewilderment; doubt. By their own perplexities involved, They ravel more. Milton.

A bearing representing the head of a dart or javelin, with long barbs which are engrailed on the inner edge.

A wayfarer; a wanderer; a traveler; a stranger. Strangers and pilgrims on the earth. Heb. xi. 13.

A large hole in the ground from which material is dug or quarried; as, a stone pit; a gravel pit; or in which material is made by burning; as, a lime pit; a charcoal pit.