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A pavement. [Obs.] Chaucer.

The pavement. Nymphe du pavé ([A low euphemism.]

One who paves; one who lays a pavement. [Written also pavier and pavior.]

The act or process of laying a pavement, or covering some place with a pavement.

A kind of hard freestone used in making pavements. [R.] Elmes.

To lay again; to lay a second time; as, to relay a pavement.

That which appears rich, sumptuous, precious, or the like. The riche of heaven's pavement, trodden gold. Milton.

A pavement or stepping-stone. [Prov. Eng.] Johnson.

A walk for foot passengers at the side of a street or road; a foot pavement. [U.S.]

me place with force and loud noise; -- usually with down; as, to slam a trunk down on the pavement.

The uninterrupted and continuous flat band, coping, or pavement upon which the bases of a row of columns are supported. See Sub-base.

to a tile; resembling a tile, or arranged like tiles; consisting of tiles; as, a tegular pavement. -- Teg"u*lar*ly, adv.

Designating, or pert. to, a road pavement having a surface of small stone rolled hard and smooth, distinguished from macadam road by its firm foundation of large stones with fragments of stone wedged tightly, in the interstices; as, telford pavement, road, etc.

To furnish (a road) with a telford pavement.

Formed of little squares, as mosaic work; checkered; as, a tessellated pavement.

, having a square, or nearly square, face, used by the ancients for mosaic, as for making pavements, for ornamenting walls, and like purposes; also, a similar piece of ivory, bone, wood, etc., used as a ticket of admission to theaters, or as a certificate for successful gladiators, and as a token for various other purp…

teel, smooth stone, or the like, laid in a public roadway otherwise formed of an inferior pavement, as cobblestones, to provide an easy way for wheels.

Footpath; pavement; sidewalk. Headless bodies trailed along the trottoirs. Froude.

Not paved; not furnished with a pavement. Hakewill.

ater; as, to wash the hands or body; to wash garments; to wash sheep or wool; to wash the pavement or floor; to wash the bark of trees. When Pilate saw that he could prevail nothing, . . . he took water and washed his hands before the multitude, saying, I am innocent of the blood of this just person. Matt. xxvii. 24.…