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Packfong. [Written also tutenague.]

elease from cords; to loosen the cord or cords of; to unfasten or unbind; as, to uncord a package.

In a pack of playing cards, the court card now called the knave, or jack. [Obs.]

To go; to depart; to pack oft. [R.] I will provoke him to 't, or let him wag. Shak.

the necessaries for a journey; a knapsack; a beggar's receptacle for charity; a peddler's pack. [His hood] was trussed up in his walet. Chaucer.

vent endwise motion of the hub of the wheel and relieve friction, or in a joint to form a packing, etc.

played by four persons (those who sit opposite each other being partners) with a complete pack of fifty-two cards. Each player has thirteen cards, and when these are played out, he hand is finished, and the cards are again shuffled and distributed.

Air impregnated with an odor or scent. A pack of dogfish had him in the wind. Swift.

ce, one who operates by secret means; an intriguer. Political wire-pullers and convention packers. Lowell.

or timber, wolf (C. occidentalis), and the prairie wolf, or coyote. Wolves often hunt in packs, and may thus attack large animals and even man.

purposes. -- Wool winder, a person employed to wind, or make up, wool into bundles to be packed for sale.

t do not have an opposable thumb for climbing. Called also water opossum. [Written also yapack.]