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A chair, litter, or other contrivance fitted to the back or pack saddle of a mule for carrying travelers in mountainous districts, or for the transportation of the sick and wounded of an army.

A packman or itinerant huckster.

A caravan of travelers; a military supply train or government caravan; a string of pack horses.

e of the dried leaves, coarsely broken; -- so called from the rush baskets in which it is packed in South America. McElrath.

ecifically, the cards cards used playing which and other games of chance, and having each pack divided onto four kinds or suits called hearts, diamonds, clubs, and spades. The full or whist pack contains fifty-two cards. -- To have the cards in one's own hands, to have the winning cards; to have the means of success i…

cle for the ordinary purposes of husbandry, or for transporting bulky and heavy articles. Packing all his goods in one poor cart. Dryden.

One of the somites (arthromeres) which make up the head of arthropods. Packard.

The anterior region or head of insects and other arthropods. Packard.

One of the jointed antenniform appendage of the posterior somites of cartain insects. Packard.

A bale or package. covered with hide, or with wood bound with hide; as, a ceroon of indigo, cochineal, etc.

A water-tight inclosure, as of piles packed with clay, from which the water is pumped to expose the bottom (of a river, etc.) and permit the laying of foundations, building of piers, etc.

To vie; to assume a likeness or equality. Shall pack horses . . . compare with Cæsars Shak.

Consisting of a series of parallel cones, each made up of many concentric cones closely packed together; -- said of a kind of structure sometimes observed in sedimentary rocks.

A game of cards derived from conquian, played by two or more players with one or two full packs of cards.

Equal share. [Obs.] Myself will bear . . . coportion of your pack. Spenser.

sting, in order to afford security or proof; as, an additional or special mark put upon a package of goods belonging to several persons, that it may not be opened except in the presence of all; a mark added to that of an artificer of gold or silver work by the Goldsmiths' Company of London, to attest the standard quali…

To pack in a crate or case for transportation; as, to crate a sewing machine; to crate peaches.

A pack of hounds. Milton. A cry more tunable Was never hollaed to, nor cheered with horn. Shak.

nity. Thomas Hamilton. To cut a caper. See under Caper. -- To cut the cards, to divide a pack of cards into portions, in order to determine the deal or the trump, or to change the cards to be dealt. -- To cut a dash or a figure, to make a display. [Colloq.] -- To cut down. (a) To sever and cause to fall; to fell; to…

A pack or set of playing cards. The king was slyly fingered from the deck. Shak.