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PAD, n.

1. A foot path; a road. [Not now used.]

2. An easy paced horse.

3. A robber that infests the road on foot; usually called a foot- pad.

PAD, n. A soft saddle, cushion or bolster stuffed with straw, hair or other soft substance.

PAD, v.i. To travel slowly.

1. To rob on foot.

2. To beat a way smooth and level.



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PAD, n.

1. A foot path; a road. [Not now used.]

2. An easy paced horse.

3. A robber that infests the road on foot; usually called a foot- pad.

PAD, n. A soft saddle, cushion or bolster stuffed with straw, hair or other soft substance.

PAD, v.i. To travel slowly.

1. To rob on foot.

2. To beat a way smooth and level.

PAD, n.1 [Sax. paad, for path. See Path.]

  1. A foot-path; a road. [Not now used.] – Prior.
  2. An easy paced horse. – Addison. Pope.
  3. A robber that infests the road on foot; usually called a foot-pad.

PAD, n.2

A soft saddle, cushion or bolster stuffed with straw, hair or other soft substance. – Camden.


PAD, v.i. [Gr. πατεω. See Path.]

  1. To travel, slowly.
  2. To rob on foot.
  3. To beat a way smooth and level.

Pad
  1. A footpath; a road.

    [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]
  2. To travel upon foot; to tread.

    [Obs.]

    Padding the streets for half a crown. Somerville.

  3. To travel heavily or slowly.

    Bunyan.
  4. A soft, or small, cushion; a mass of anything soft; stuffing.
  5. To stuff] to furnish with a pad or padding.
  6. An easy-paced horse; a padnag.

    Addison

    An abbot on an ambling pad. Tennyson.

  7. To rob on foot.

    [Obs.] Cotton Mather.
  8. 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.
  9. To imbue uniformly with a mordant; as, to pad cloth.

    Ure.
  10. A robber that infests the road on foot; a highwayman; -- usually called a footpad.

    Gay. Byron.
  11. To wear a path by walking.

    [Prov. Eng.]
  12. A cushion used as a saddle without a tree or frame.
  13. The act of robbing on the highway.

    [Obs.]
  14. A stuffed guard or protection; esp., one worn on the legs of horses to prevent bruising.
  15. A cushionlike thickening of the skin one the under side of the toes of animals.
  16. A floating leaf of a water lily or similar plant.
  17. A soft bag or cushion to relieve pressure, support a part, etc.
  18. A piece of timber fixed on a beam to fit the curve of the deck.

    W. C. Russel.
  19. 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.

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Pad

PAD, noun

1. A foot path; a road. [Not now used.]

2. An easy paced horse.

3. A robber that infests the road on foot; usually called a foot- pad

PAD, noun A soft saddle, cushion or bolster stuffed with straw, hair or other soft substance.

PAD, verb intransitive To travel slowly.

1. To rob on foot.

2. To beat a way smooth and level.

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IMPORT'ANCE, n.

1. Weight; consequence; a bearing on some interest; that quality of any thing by which it may affect a measure, interest or result. The education of youth is of great importance to a free government. A religious education is of infinite importance to every human being.

2. Weight or consequence in the scale of being.

Thy own importance know.

Nor bound thy narrow views to things below.

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He believes himself a man of importance.

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