Hypertext Webster Gateway: "pad"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Pad \Pad\, n. [D. pad. [root]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.]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Pad \Pad\, v. t.
To travel upon foot; to tread. [Obs.]

Padding the streets for half a crown. --Somerville.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Pad \Pad\, v. i.
1. To travel heavily or slowly. --Bunyan.

2. To rob on foot. [Obs.] --Cotton Mather.

3. To wear a path by walking. [Prov. Eng.]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Pad \Pad\, n. [Perh. akin to pod.]
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. (Zo["o]l.) 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. (Med.) A soft bag or cushion to relieve pressure, support
a part, etc.

8. (Naut.) 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.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Pad \Pad\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Padded}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Padding}.]
1. To stuff; to furnish with a pad or padding.

2. (Calico Printing) To imbue uniformly with a mordant; as,
to pad cloth. --Ure.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

pad
n 1: a number of sheets of paper fastened together along one edge
[syn: {pad of paper}, {tablet}]
2: a block of absorbent material saturated with ink; used to
transfer ink evenly to a rubber stamp [syn: {inkpad}, {inking
pad}, {stamp pad}]
3: a usually thin flat mass of padding
4: a platform from which rockets or space craft are launched
[syn: {launching pad}, {launchpad}, {launch pad}, {launch
area}]
5: temporary living quarters [syn: {diggings}, {digs}, {domiciliation},
{lodgings}]
6: the foot or fleshy cushion-like underside of the toes of an
animal
v 1: add details to [syn: {embroider}, {lard}, {embellish}, {aggrandize},
{aggrandise}, {blow up}, {dramatize}, {dramatise}]
2: walk heavily and firmly, as when weary, or through mud;
"Donkeys that plodded wearily in a circle around a gin"
D.H. Lawrence [syn: {slog}, {footslog}, {plod}, {trudge},
{tramp}]
3: line or stuff with soft material; "pad a bra" [syn: {fill
out}]
4: add padding to; "pad the seat of the chair" [syn: {bolster}]


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