Noah Webster's 1828 American Dictionary of the English Language is regarded by many as the finest English
dictionary ever published. The dictionary is available in many forms. I made the content available here for my own purposes,
out of personal admiration for this particular dictionary.
PACK'ET, n. 1. A small pack or package; a little bundle or parcel; as a packet of letters. 2. A dispatch-vessel; a ship or other vessel employed by government to convey letters from country to country or from port to port. 3. A vessel employed in conveying dispatches and passengers from place to place, or to carry passengers and goods coastwise. PACK'ET, v.i. To ply with a packet or dispatch-vessel.