Pack
Webster's Dictionary [1]
(1): ( n.) A number or quantity equal to the contents of a pack; hence, a multitude; a burden.
(2): ( n.) A number or quantity of connected or similar things
(3): ( n.) A pact.
(4): ( n.) A bundle made up and prepared to be carried; especially, a bundle to be carried on the back; a load for an animal; a bale, as of goods.
(5): ( n.) A number of hounds or dogs, hunting or kept together.
(6): ( n.) A number of persons associated or leagued in a bad design or practice; a gang; as, a pack of thieves or knaves.
(7): ( n.) A full set of playing cards; also, the assortment used in a particular game; as, a euchre pack.
(8): ( n.) A bundle of sheet-iron plates for rolling simultaneously.
(9): ( n.) A large area of floating pieces of ice driven together more or less closely.
(10): ( n.) An envelope, or wrapping, of sheets used in hydropathic practice, called dry pack, wet pack, cold pack, etc., according to the method of treatment.
(11): ( n.) A loose, lewd, or worthless person. See Baggage.
(12): ( n.) To fill in the manner of a pack, that is, compactly and securely, as for transportation; hence, to fill closely or to repletion; to stow away within; to cause to be full; to crowd into; as, to pack a trunk; the play, or the audience, packs the theater.
(13): ( n.) To sort and arrange (the cards) in a pack so as to secure the game unfairly.
(14): ( n.) Hence: To bring together or make up unfairly and fraudulently, in order to secure a certain result; as, to pack a jury or a causes.
(15): ( n.) To contrive unfairly or fraudulently; to plot.
(16): ( n.) To load with a pack; hence, to load; to encumber; as, to pack a horse.
(17): ( n.) To cause to go; to send away with baggage or belongings; esp., to send away peremptorily or suddenly; - sometimes with off; as, to pack a boy off to school.
(18): ( n.) To transport in a pack, or in the manner of a pack (i. e., on the backs of men or beasts).
(19): ( n.) To envelop in a wet or dry sheet, within numerous coverings. See Pack, n., 5.
(20): ( n.) To render impervious, as by filling or surrounding with suitable material, or to fit or adjust so as to move without giving passage to air, water, or steam; as, to pack a joint; to pack the piston of a steam engine.
(21): ( v. i.) To make up packs, bales, or bundles; to stow articles securely for transportation.
(22): ( v. i.) To admit of stowage, or of making up for transportation or storage; to become compressed or to settle together, so as to form a compact mass; as, the goods pack conveniently; wet snow packs well.
(23): ( v. i.) To gather in flocks or schools; as, the grouse or the perch begin to pack.
(24): ( v. i.) To depart in haste; - generally with off or away.
(25): ( v. i.) To unite in bad measures; to confederate for ill purposes; to join in collusion.
(26): ( n.) A shook of cask staves.
(27): ( n.) In hydropathic practice, a wrapping of blankets or sheets called dry pack, wet pack, cold pack, etc., according to the condition of the blankets or sheets used, put about a patient to give him treatment; also, the fact or condition of being so treated.
(28): ( n.) The forwards who compose one half of the scrummage; also, the scrummage.
(29): ( v. t.) To cover, envelop, or protect tightly with something;
(30): ( v. t.) to envelop in a wet or dry sheet, within numerous coverings.
(31): ( n.) To make a pack of; to arrange closely and securely in a pack; hence, to place and arrange compactly as in a pack; to press into close order or narrow compass; as to pack goods in a box; to pack fish.
King James Dictionary [2]
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, 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, 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 purposes to join in collusion.
Go, pack with him.
