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An easy-paced horse; a padnag. Addison An abbot on an ambling pad. Tennyson.

An elephant that is furnished with a pad for carrying burdens instead of with a howdah for carrying passengers.

Groats; coarse flour or meal. [Obs.] Sir. H. Wotton.

One who, or that which, pads.

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

To dabble in water with hands or feet; to use a paddle, or something which serves as a paddle, in swimming, in paddling a boat, etc. As the men were paddling for their lives. L'Estrange. While paddling ducks the standing lake desire. Gay.

The lumpfish. [Prov. Eng.]

A large ganoid fish (Polyodon spathula) found in the rivers of the Mississippi Valley. It has a long spatula-shaped snout. Called also duck-billed cat, and spoonbill sturgeon.

One who, or that which, paddles.

The light elastic wood of the Aspidosperma excelsum, a tree of Guiana having a fluted trunk readily split into planks.

A toad or frog. Wyclif. "Loathed paddocks." Spenser Paddock pipe (Bot.), a hollow-stemmed plant of the genus Equisetum, especially E. limosum and the fruiting stems of E. arvense; -- called also padow pipe and toad pipe. See Equisetum. -- Paddock stone. See Toadstone. -- Paddock stool (Bot.),a toadstool.…

Low; mean; boorish; vagabond. "Such pady persons." Digges (1585). "The paddy persons." Motley.

A plant with pedately lobed leaves; the lady's mantle.

wick is placed, -- used for public illuminations, as at St. Peter's, in Rome. Called also padelle.

See Wallaby.

See Paduasoy.

The barn owl; -- called also pudge, and pudge owl. [Prov. Eng.]

Chief ruler; monarch; sovereign; -- a title of the Sultan of Turkey, and of the Shah of Persia.

To fasten with, or as with, a padlock; to stop; to shut; to confine as by a padlock. Milton. Tennyson.

An ambling nag. "An easy padnag." Macaulay.