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To pack or stow, as cargo in a ship's hold. See Steeve.

That portion of a pack of cards not distributed to the players at the beginning of certain games, as gleek, etc., but which might be drawn from afterward as occasion required; a bank. I must buy the stock; send me good cardings. Beau. & Fl.

lace or arrange in a compact mass; to put in its proper place, or in a suitable place; to pack; as, to stowbags, bales, or casks in a ship's hold; to stow hay in a mow; to stow sheaves. Some stow their oars, or stop the leaky sides. Dryden.

Things stowed or packed. Beau. & Fl.

A method of working in which the waste is packed into the space formed by excavating the vein.

Tobacco which has been stripped of its stalks before packing.

To thrust or crowd; to press; to pack. Put roses into a glass with a narrow mouth, stuffing them close together . . . and they retain smell and color. Bacon.

n enlargement of part of the hole, forming a space around the rod or shaft for containing packing which is compressed and made to fill the space closely by means of a sleeve, called the gland, which fits loosely around the rod, and is pressed upon the packing by bolts or other means.

One of the four sets of cards which constitute a pack; -- each set consisting of thirteen cards bearing a particular emblem, as hearts, spades, cubs, or diamonds. To deal and shuffle, to divide and sort Her mingled suits and sequences. Cowper.

The driver of a pack horse. [Obs.] Skeat.

t. Hooker. And every shepherd tells his tale, Under the hawthornn in the dale. Milton. In packing, they keep a just tale of the number. Carew.

Clothes; furniture; appurtenances; luggage; as, to pack or store one's things. [Colloq.]

that all his cards had been thumbed to pieces, and begged them to let him have a few more packs. Macaulay.

rel, and smaller than a hogshead or a puncheon, in which salt provisions, rice, etc., are packed for shipment.

A certain quantity of fur skins, as of martens, ermines, sables, etc., packed between boards; being in some cases forty skins, in others one hundred and twenty; -- called also timmer. [Written also timbre.]

Packed in tin cases; canned; as, tinned meats. Cassell (Dict. of Cookery).

a man or dog that follows game. And of the trackers of the deer Scarce half the lessening pack was near. Sir W. Scott.

bit exultation. How long shall the wicked triumph Ps. xciv. 3. Sorrow on thee and all the pack of you That triumph thus upon my misery! Shak.

A bundle; a package; as, a truss of grass. Fabyan. Bearing a truss of trifles at his back. Spenser.

A strap placed across a man's forehead to assist him in carrying a pack on his back. [Local, U. S.] Bartlett.