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A vessel of wood or tin, etc., usually cylindrical and having a bail, -- used esp. for carrying liquids, as water or milk, etc.; a bucket. It may, or may not, have a cover. Shak.

The quantity that a pail will hold. "By pailfuls." Shak.

An under bed or mattress of straw. [Written also palliasse.]

A thin leaf of metal, as for use in gilding or enameling, or to show through a translucent medium.

See Pall-mall. [Obs.]

The arched handle of a kettle, pail, or similar vessel, usually movable. Forby.

A tin dinner pail. [Local, U. S.] Bartlett.

es, as liquids when boiling or agitated; to contain bubbles. The milk that bubbled in the pail. Tennyson.

A small wooden vessel; a pail. [Scot.] Jamieson.

To receive and retain; to contain as a vessel; as, this pail holds milk; hence, to be able to receive and retain; to have capacity or containing power for. Broken cisterns that can hold no water. Jer. ii. 13. One sees more devils than vast hell can hold. Shak.

A wooden tub or pail, smaller at the top than at the bottom; as, a kit of butter, or of mackerel. Wright.

Consisting of, or containing, milk. Pails high foaming with a milky flood. Pope.

the game was played, and to the street, in London, still called Pall Mall. [Written also pail-mail and pell-mell.] Sir K. Digby. Evelyn.

See Paillasse.

A small wooden pail or tub with an upright stave for a handle, -- often used as a dipper.

ything flowing like a liquid, either out of a vessel or into it; as, to pour water from a pail; to pour wine into a decanter; to pour oil upon the waters; to pour out sand or dust.

o fluids and to substances whose particles are small and loose; as, to spill water from a pail; to spill quicksilver from a vessel; to spill powder from a paper; to spill sand or flour.

ining of a vessel or structure; esp., one of the strips which form the sides of a cask, a pail, etc.

A frame of wood fitted to a person's shoulders for carrying pails, etc., suspended on each side; as, a milkmaid's yoke.