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Webster's Unabridged Dictionary: Library in Itself

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Pad

Pad (pad)
n.(?)
Pad
[D. pad. ***radic]21. See Path.]
  1. A footpath; a road.
    [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]
  2. An easy-paced horse; a padnag.
    Addison

    An abbot on an ambling pad. Tennyson.

  3. A robber that infests the road on foot; a highwayman; -- usually called a footpad.
    Gay. Byron.
  4. The act of robbing on the highway.
    [Obs.]

Pad

Pad (pad)
v. t.
Pad
  1. To travel upon foot; to tread.
    [Obs.]

    Padding the streets for half a crown. Somerville.


Pad

Pad (pad)
v. i.
Pad
  1. To travel heavily or slowly.
    Bunyan.
  2. To rob on foot.
    [Obs.] Cotton Mather.
  3. To wear a path by walking.
    [Prov. Eng.]

Pad

Pad (pad)
n.
Pad
  1. A soft, or small, cushion; a mass of anything soft; stuffing.
  2. A kind of cushion for writing upon, or for blotting; esp., one formed of many flat sheets of writing paper, or layers of blotting paper; a block of paper.
  3. A cushion used as a saddle without a tree or frame.
  4. A stuffed guard or protection; esp., one worn on the legs of horses to prevent bruising.
  5. A cushionlike thickening of the skin one the under side of the toes of animals.
  6. A floating leaf of a water lily or similar plant.
  7. A soft bag or cushion to relieve pressure, support a part, etc.
  8. A piece of timber fixed on a beam to fit the curve of the deck.
    W. C. Russel.
  9. A measure for fish; as, sixty mackerel go to a pad; a basket of soles.
    [Eng.] Simmonds.

    Pad cloth, a saddlecloth; a housing. -- Pad saddle. See def. 3, above. -- Pad tree (Harness Making), a piece of wood or metal which gives rigidity and shape to a harness pad. Knight.


Pad

Pad (pad)
v. t.
Pad
  1. To stuff] to furnish with a pad or padding.
  2. To imbue uniformly with a mordant; as, to pad cloth.
    Ure.













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