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a. [ Pref. cis- + L. Padanus, pert. to the Padus or Po. ] On the hither side of the river Po with reference to Rome; that is, on the south side. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Etymol. uncertain. ] (Zool.) See Lumpfish. [ Scot. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F., fr. croupe hind quarters. ] (Man.) A leap in which the horse pulls up his hind legs toward his belly. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL., fr. Gr. 'epi` upon + &unr_; to draw, rend. ] (Med.) A deformity in which the urethra opens upon the top of the penis, instead of at its extremity. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F., fr. Sp. escapada escape, fr. escapar to escape; or F., fr. It. scappata escape, escapade, fr. scappare to escape. see Escape. ] 1. The fling of a horse, or ordinary kicking back of his heels; a gambol. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Act by which one breaks loose from the rules of propriety or good sense; a freak; a prank. Carlyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. espadon, fr. Sp. espadon, fr. espada sword; or fr. It. spadone an espadon, spada sword. ] A long, heavy, two-handed and two-edged sword, formerly used by Spanish foot soldiers and by executioners. Wilhelm. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a sandal with a sole made of rope or rubber and a cloth upper part. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ F. ] (Man.) The action of a horse, when, to get rid of his rider, he rears, plunges, and kicks furiously. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A highwayman or robber on foot. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Gallopaded; p. pr. & vb. n. Gallopading. ] 1. To gallop, as on horseback. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To perform the dance called gallopade. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. galopade. See Gallop, n. ] 1. I horsemanship, a sidelong or curveting kind of gallop. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A kind of dance; also, music to the dance; a galop. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL., fr. Gr. "ypo` beneath + spa`n to draw, tear.] (Med.) A deformity of the penis, in which the urethra opens upon its under surface. [1913 Webster]

n. [ Gr. &unr_; , &unr_;. See Lamp. ] A lamp or candlestick. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

By him who 'mid the golden lampads went. Trench. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_;, fr. &unr_;, &unr_;, torch. See Lamp. ] (Gr. Antiq.) One who gained the prize in the lampadrome. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_;; &unr_;, &unr_;, torch + &unr_; course, race, fr. &unr_; to run. ] (Gr. Antiq.) A race run by young men with lighted torches in their hands. He who reached the goal first, with his torch unextinguished, gained the prize. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Rocketry) a platform from which rockets or space craft are launched.
Syn. -- launching pad, launch pad, launch area, pad. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

prop. n. A natural family of crustaceans including the goose barnacles.
Syn. -- family Lepadidae. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ L. lepas, lepadis, limpet, Gr. lepa`s, lepa`dos. ] (Zool.) Same as Lepadoid. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Lepas + -oid. ] (Zool.) A stalked barnacle of the genus Lepas, or family Lepadidæ; a goose barnacle. Also used adjectively. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To travel upon foot; to tread. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Padding the streets for half a crown. Somerville. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. 1. To travel heavily or slowly. Bunyan. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To rob on foot. [ Obs. ] Cotton Mather. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To wear a path by walking. [ Prov. Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Perh. akin to pod. ] 1. A soft, or small, cushion; a mass of anything soft; stuffing. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A cushion used as a saddle without a tree or frame. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A stuffed guard or protection; esp., one worn on the legs of horses to prevent bruising. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. (Zool.) A cushionlike thickening of the skin one the under side of the toes of animals. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. A floating leaf of a water lily or similar plant. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. (Med.) A soft bag or cushion to relieve pressure, support a part, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

8. (Naut.) A piece of timber fixed on a beam to fit the curve of the deck. W. C. Russel. [ 1913 Webster ]

9. A measure for fish; as, sixty mackerel go to a pad; a basket of soles. [ Eng. ] Simmonds. [ 1913 Webster ]

10. A dwelling place, usually an apartment; one's living quarters; as, come over to my pad to watch the game. [ Slang ] [ PJC ]

11. A sum of money paid as a bribe to police officers, shared among them; also, the list of such officers receiving such a bribe. [ PJC ]

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. --
on the pad, receiving bribes; -- of police officers. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Padded; p. pr. & vb. n. Padding. ] 1. To stuff; to furnish with a pad or padding. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Calico Printing) To imbue uniformly with a mordant; as, to pad cloth. Ure. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ D. pad. √21. See Path. ] 1. A footpath; a road. [ Obs. or Prov. Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. An easy-paced horse; a padnag. Addison [ 1913 Webster ]

An abbot on an ambling pad. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A robber that infests the road on foot; a highwayman; -- usually called a footpad. Gay. Byron. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. The act of robbing on the highway. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Etymol. uncertain. ] Groats; coarse flour or meal. [ Obs. ] Sir. H. Wotton. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. Same as cushioned, 1.
Syn. -- cushioned, cushiony. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. One who, or that which, pads. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A highwayman; a footpad. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The act or process of making a pad or of inserting stuffing. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The material with which anything is padded. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Material of inferior value, serving to extend a book, essay, etc. London Sat. Rev. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Calico Printing) The uniform impregnation of cloth with a mordant. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ Prob. for pattle, and a dim. of pat, v.; cf. also E. pad to tread, Prov. G. paddeln, padden, to walk with short steps, to paddle, G. patschen to splash, dash, dabble, F. patouiller to dabble, splash, fr. patte a paw. √21. ] 1. To use the hands or fingers in toying; to make caressing strokes. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To dabble in water with hands or feet; to use a paddle, or something which serves as a paddle, in swimming, in paddling a boat, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

As the men were paddling for their lives. L'Estrange. [ 1913 Webster ]

While paddling ducks the standing lake desire. Gay. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Paddled p. pr. & vb. n. Paddling 1. To pat or stroke amorously, or gently. [ Obsolescent ] [ 1913 Webster ]

To be paddling palms and pinching fingers. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To propel with, or as with, a paddle or paddles. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To pad; to tread upon; to trample. [ Prov. Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To spank with a paddle or as if with a paddle; -- usually as a disciplinary punishment of children. [ PJC ]

5. To mix (a viscous liquid) by stirring or beating with a paddle. [ PJC ]

n. [ See Paddle, v. i. ] 1. An implement with a broad blade, which is used without a fixed fulcrum in propelling and steering canoes and boats. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The broad part of a paddle, with which the stroke is made; hence, any short, broad blade, resembling that of a paddle, such as that used in table tennis. [ 1913 Webster ]

Thou shalt have a paddle upon thy weapon. Deut. xxiii. 13. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. One of the broad boards, or floats, at the circumference of a water wheel, or paddle wheel. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A small gate in sluices or lock gates to admit or let off water; -- also called clough. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. (Zool.) A paddle-shaped foot, as of the sea turtle. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. A paddle-shaped implement for stirring or mixing. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. [ In this sense prob. for older spaddle, a dim. of spade. ] See Paddle staff (b), below. [ Prov. Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Paddle beam (Shipbuilding), one of two large timbers supporting the spring beam and paddle box of a steam vessel. --
Paddle board. See Paddle, n., 3. --
Paddle shaft, the revolving shaft which carries the paddle wheel of a steam vessel. --
Paddle staff. (a) A staff tipped with a broad blade, used by mole catchers. [ Prov. Eng. ] (b) A long-handled spade used to clean a plowshare; -- called also plow staff. [ Prov. Eng. ] --
Paddle steamer, a steam vessel propelled by paddle wheels, in distinction from a screw propeller. --
Paddle wheel, the propelling wheel of a steam vessel, having paddles (or floats) on its circumference, and revolving in a vertical plane parallel to the vessel's length. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. a wooden covering for the upper part of the paddle wheel of a steam vessel. [ 1913 Webster + WordNet 1.5 ]

n. (Zool.) The lumpfish. [ Prov. Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool) A large ganoid fish (Polyodon spathula) found in the rivers of the Mississippi Valley. It has a long spatula-shaped snout. Called also duck-billed cat, and spoonbill sturgeon. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who, or that which, paddles. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Bot.) The light elastic wood of the Aspidosperma excelsum, a tree of Guiana having a fluted trunk readily split into planks. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Corrupted fr. parrock. See Parrock. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. A small inclosure or park for sporting. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A small inclosure for pasture; esp., one adjoining a stable. Evelyn. Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. An enclosure used for saddling and mounting horses prior to a race. [ PJC ]

n. [ OE. padde toad, frog + -ock; akin to D. pad, padde, toad, Icel. & Sw. padda, Dan. padde. ] (Zool.) A toad or frog. Wyclif. “Loathed paddocks.” Spenser [ 1913 Webster ]

Paddock pipe (Bot.), a hollow-stemmed plant of the genus Equisetum, especially Equisetum limosum and the fruiting stems of Equisetum arvense; -- called also padow pipe and toad pipe. See Equisetum. --
Paddock stone. See Toadstone. --
Paddock stool (Bot.), a toadstool. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Prov. E. paddy worm-eaten. ] Low; mean; boorish; vagabond. “Such pady persons.” Digges (1585). “The paddy persons.” Motley. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Paddies [ Corrupted fr. St. Patrick, the tutelar saint of Ireland. ] A jocose or contemptuous name for an Irishman; -- usually considered offensive. [ Obsolescent ] [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

n. [ Either fr. Canarese bhatta or Malay pādī. ] (Bot.) Unhusked rice; -- commonly so called in the East Indies. [ 1913 Webster ]

Paddy bird. (Zool.) See Java sparrow, under Java. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. Any of several small reddish-brown wallabies of scrubby areas of Australia and New Guinea, especially those belonging to the genus Thylogale.
Syn. -- pademelon. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. An enclosed truck used by police to transport prisoners.
Syn. -- patrol wagon, Black Maria. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

. An elephant that is furnished with a pad for carrying burdens instead of with a howdah for carrying passengers. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ F. pas de lion lion's foot. ] (Bot.) A plant with pedately lobed leaves; the lady's mantle. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ It., prop., a pan, a friing pan, fr. L. patella a pan. ] A large cup or deep saucer, containing fatty matter in which a wick is placed, -- used for public illuminations, as at St. Peter's, in Rome. Called also padelle. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) Any of several small reddish-brown wallabies of scrubby areas of Australia and New Guinea, especially those belonging to the genus Thylogale; a paddymelon. See Wallaby [ 1913 Webster + WordNet 1.5 ]

n. See Paduasoy. [ 1913 Webster ]