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To admit 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.

cloth, a saddlecloth; a housing. -- Pad saddle. See def. 3, above. -- Pad tree (Harness Making), a piece of wood or metal which gives rigidity and shape to a harness pad. Knight.

The act or process of making a pad or of inserting stuffing.

um Palmita) of the Rush family, having long serrated leaves. The stems have been used for making brushes.

od is largely used for building purposes; its fruit and roots serve for food, its sap for making toddy, and its leaves for thatching huts.

Of or pertaining to bread or to breadmaking.

The act or process of making bread. Ure.

ked, palmately lobed leaves. The milky juice of the plant is said to have the property of making meat tender. Also, its dull orange-colored, melon- shaped fruit, which is eaten both raw and cooked or pickled.

t; as, a paramount duty. "A traitor paramount." Bacon. Lady paramount (Archery), the lady making the best score. -- Lord paramount, the king.

The commander of a body of detached light troops engaged in making forays and harassing an enemy.

ur moistened with water or milk, or of earth moistened to the consistence of dough, as in making potter's ware.

A document making a grant and conveyance of public lands. Four other gentlemen of quality remained mentioned in that patent. Fuller.

aporating the lye, and has been an important source of potassium compounds. It is used in making soap, glass, etc.

An instrument carried by a pedestrian for automatically making a topographical record of the ground covered during a journey.

A small pocketknife; formerly, a knife used for making and mending quill pens.

As chauntecleer among his wives all Sat on his perche, that was in his hall. Chaucer. Not making his high place the lawless perch Of winged ambitions. Tennyson.

Making or doing throughly; efficient; effectual. [R.] Blackstone.

n a competent judicial proceeding. By statute the penalties of perjury are imposed on the making of willfully false affirmations.

A reverberatory furnace with a circular revolving hearth, -- used in making steel.

A line or plane falling at right angles on another line or surface, or making equal angles with it on each side.