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o; to make due return to; to compensate; to remunerate; to recompense; to requite; as, to pay workmen or servants. May no penny ale them pay [i. e., satisfy]. P. Plowman. [She] pays me with disdain. Dryden.

A staff corps in the United States navy, consisting of pay directors, pay inspectors, paymasters, passed assistant paymasters, and assistant paymasters, having relative rank from captain to ensign, respectively.

Earth, rock, etc., which yields a profit to the miner. [Western U. S.]

(Oil Boring) A stratum of oil sand thick enough to make a well pay.

y, can, or should be paid; suitable to be paid; justly due. Drayton. Thanks are a tribute payable by the poorest. South.

The person to whom money is to be, or has been, paid; the person named in a bill or note, to whom, or to whose order, the amount is promised or directed to be paid. See Bill of exchange, under Bill.

Pagan. Etym: [F.] [Obs.] Chaucer.

One who pays; specifically, the person by whom a bill or note has been, or should be, paid.

One who pays; one who compensates, rewards, or requites; specifically, an officer or agent of a government, a corporation, or an employer, whose duty it is to pay salaries, wages, etc., and keep account of the same.

In Great Britain, an officer of the Treasury who makes all payments and disbursements, civil as well as military. He is a member of the ministry, but not of the cabinet.

The act of paying, or giving compensation; the discharge of a debt or an obligation. No man envieth the payment of a debt. Bacon.

Bread. Having Piers Plowman.

The finest and whitest bread made in the Middle Ages; -- called also paynemain, payman. [Obs.]

ating it successively with solutions of sulphate of iron and calcium chloride in vacuo. --Payn"ize, v. t.

See Painim.

To treat or preserve, as wood, by a process resembling kyanizing.

See Payer. [R.]

To poise. [Obs.] Spenser.

n alkaloid obtained from a white bark resembling that of the cinchona, first brought from Payta, in Peru.

To pay; to satisfy or appease. [Obs.] Sir P. Sidney.