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A thin coating of sand and fine gravel over a newly paved road. See Blind, v. t., 4.

To lay or pave with bricks; to surround, line, or construct with bricks.

Having a raised way (causeway or causey); paved. Sir W. Scott. C. Bronté.

A shark of the genus Cestracion, and of related genera. The posterior teeth form a pavement of bony plates for crushing shellfish. Most of the species are extinct. The Port Jackson shark and a similar one found in California are living examples.

To pave with cobblestones.

To cover with, or form of, concrete, as a pavement.

-- Corn popper, a utensil used in popping corn. -- Corn poppy (Bot.), the red poppy (Papaver Rhoeas), common in European cornfields; -- also called corn rose. -- Corn rent, rent paid in corn. -- Corn rose. See Corn poppy. -- Corn salad (Bot.), a name given to several species of Valerianella, annual herbs sometime…

A place where anything (as a stream) is crossed; a paved walk across a street.

A genus of papaveraceous plants, found in California and upon the west coast of North America, some species of which produce beautiful yellow, orange, rose-colored, or white flowers; the California poppy.

A tile or flagstone cut into an hexagonal shape to produce a honeycomb pattern, as in a pavement; -- called also favas and sectila. Mollett.

A pavement or sidewalk of flagstones; flagstones, collectively.

A platform; the bottom of a room; a floor; pavement. See Floor, n. Addison.

To furnish (a window, a house, a sash, a ease, etc.) with glass. Two cabinets daintily paved, richly handed, and glazed with crystalline glass. Bacon.

Resembling granite in granular appearance; as, granitoid gneiss; a granitoid pavement.

A kind of hard artificial stone, used for pavements.

A floor or pavement supposed to rest upon the earth.

The pavement or floor of brick, stone, or metal in a chimney, on which a fire is made; the floor of a fireplace; also, a corresponding part of a stove. There was a fire on the hearth burning before him. Jer. xxxvi. 22. Where fires thou find'st unraked and hearths unswept. There pinch the maids as blue as bilberry. Shak…

ay or to do a certain thing; purpose; design; as, an intention to go to New York. Hell is paved with good intentions. Johnson.

level ground; the level surface of a pond or lake. Ample spaces o'er the smooth And level pavement. Milton.

With a verb or participle. Admiring more The riches of Heaven's pavement. Milton.