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In the balk-line game, any of eight spaces, 7 inches by 3½, lying along a cushion and bisected transversely by a balk line. Object balls in an anchor space are treated as in balk.

With a quick pace; quick; fast; speedily. His dewy locks did drop with brine apace. Spenser. A visible triumph of the gospel drawapace. I. Taylor.

A group of nomadic North American Indians including several tribes native of Arizona, New Mexico, etc.

That form of episcopacy in which the chief power is in the hands of archbishops.

To quality. [R.] The benefice he is capacified and designed for. Barrow.

Having capacity; able to contain much; large; roomy; spacious; extended; broad; as, a capacious vessel, room, bay, or harbor. In the capacious recesses of his mind. Bancroft.

In a capacious manner or degree; comprehensively.

The quality of being capacious, as of a vessel, a reservoir a bay, the mind, etc.

To render capable; to enable; to qualify. By thih instruction we may be capaciated to observe those errors. Dryden.

The power of receiving or containing; extent of room or space; passive power; -- used in reference to physical things. Had our great palace the capacity To camp this host, we all would sup together. Shak. The capacity of the exhausted cylinder. Boyle.

The chief admiral of the Turkish fleet.

The thick shell or sheild which cover the back of the tortoise, or turtle, the crab, and other crustaceous animals.

Of the nature of an onion, as in odor; alliaceous.

A lively dance (called also galliard), the steps of which were regulated by the number five. [Obs.] Nares. Shak.

Joined or held together; leagued; confederated. [Obs.] "Compact with her that's gone." Shak. A pipe of seven reeds, compact with wax together. Peacham.

Compact; pressed close; concentrated; firmly united.

In a compact manner.

A state of being compact.

One who makes a compact.

That may be compacted.