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Pack
PACK, n. [See the Verb.]
1. A bundle of any thing inclosed in a cover or bound fast with cords; a bale; as a pack of goods or cloth. The soldier bears a pack on his back.
2. A burden or load; as a pack of sorrows.
3. A number of cards, or the number used in games; so called from being inclosed together.
4. A number of hounds or dogs, hunting or kept together, that is, a crowd or assemblage united.
5. A number of persons united in a bad design or practice; as a pack of thieves or knaves.
6. A great number crowded together; as a pack of troubles. [Not used.]
7. A loose or lewd person. [Not used.]
PACK, v.t. [L. pango, pactum, pactus; impingo, compingo.]
1. To place and press together; to place in close order; as, to pack goods in a box or chest.
2. To put together and bind fast; as, to pack any thing for carriage with cords or straps.
3. To put in close order with salt intermixed; as, to pack meat or fish in barrels.
4. To send in haste.
5. To put together, as cards, in such a manner as to secure the game; to put together in sorts with a fraudulent design, as cards; hence, to unite persons iniquitously, with a view to some private interest; as, to pack a jury, that is, to select persons for a jury who may favor a party; to pack a parliament; to pack an assembly of bishops.
PACK, v.i. To be pressed or close; as, the goods pack well.
1. To close; to shut.
2. To depart in haste; with off.
Poor Stella must pack off to town.
3. To unite in bad measures; to confederate for ill purposes; to join in collusion.
Go, pack with him.
pack appears in definitions for these words:
Baftas Bale Barrel Barreled Barrelling Boat Ceroon Convey Cover Cry Cut Deal Deck Dispatch Draw-net Embale Factorage Fagot Generous Hunt Impinge Job Kennel Make Pack Package Packcloth Packer Packet Packet-boat Packhorse Packsaddle Packstaff Pact Paction Parcel Ped Pickapack Pugilism Put Quadrille Ream Rebuke Repack Repacked Repacking Run Sarplier Seroon Shuffle Sling Stevedore Stock Sumpter Tale Trade Triumph Truss Trussed Trussing Uncord Unpack Unpacked Unpacking Wag Wind Wool-winder Woolpack
Baftas Bale Barrel Barreled Barrelling Boat Ceroon Convey Cover Cry Cut Deal Deck Dispatch Draw-net Embale Factorage Fagot Generous Hunt Impinge Job Kennel Make Pack Package Packcloth Packer Packet Packet-boat Packhorse Packsaddle Packstaff Pact Paction Parcel Ped Pickapack Pugilism Put Quadrille Ream Rebuke Repack Repacked Repacking Run Sarplier Seroon Shuffle Sling Stevedore Stock Sumpter Tale Trade Triumph Truss Trussed Trussing Uncord Unpack Unpacked Unpacking Wag Wind Wool-winder Woolpack
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