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n. Pay drawn for soldiers, or others, really dead, whose names are kept on the rolls. [ 1913 Webster ]

O you commanders,
That, like me, have no dead-pays. Massinger. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ Cf. Appay. ] To dissatisfy. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. mort dead + E. pay. ] Dead pay; the crime of taking pay for the service of dead soldiers, or for services not actually rendered by soldiers. [ Obs. ] Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Neglect or failure to pay. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Overpaid p. pr. & vb. n. Overpaying. ] 1. To pay too much to; to reward too highly. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To pay too much for; as, to overpay the loan balance. [ PJC ]

n. [ Prob. from the native name in the West Indies; cf. Sp. papayo papaw, papaya the fruit of the papaw. ] 1. (Bot.) A tree (Carica Papaya) of tropical America, belonging to the order Passifloreæ; called also papaw and pawpaw. It has a soft, spongy stem, eighteen or twenty feet high, crowned with a tuft of large, long-stalked, palmately lobed leaves. The milky juice of the plant is said to have the property of making meat tender. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

2. The fruit of the papaya tree; it is a dull orange-colored, melon-shaped fruit, which is eaten both raw and cooked or pickled. The fruit contains papain, a protease. [ 1913 Webster + PJC ]

v. t. [ OF. peier, fr. L. picare to pitch, pix pitch: cf. OF. peiz pitch, F. poix. See Pitch a black substance. ] (Naut.) To cover, as bottom of a vessel, a seam, a spar, etc., with tar or pitch, or waterproof composition of tallow, resin, etc.; to smear. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Paid p. pr. & vb. n. Paying. ] [ OE. paien, F. payer, fr. L. pacare to pacify, appease, fr. pax, pacis, peace. See Peace. ] 1. To satisfy, or content; specifically, to satisfy (another person) for service rendered, property delivered, etc.; to discharge one's obligation to; to make due return to; to compensate; to remunerate; to recompense; to requite; as, to pay workmen or servants. [ 1913 Webster ]

May no penny ale them pay [ i. e., satisfy ]. P. Plowman. [ 1913 Webster ]

[ She ] pays me with disdain. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Hence, figuratively: To compensate justly; to requite according to merit; to reward; to punish; to retort or retaliate upon. [ 1913 Webster ]

For which, or pay me quickly, or I'll pay you. B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To discharge, as a debt, demand, or obligation, by giving or doing what is due or required; to deliver the amount or value of to the person to whom it is owing; to discharge a debt by delivering (money owed). “Pay me that thou owest.” Matt. xviii. 28. [ 1913 Webster ]

Have patience with me, and I will pay thee all. Matt. xviii. 26. [ 1913 Webster ]

If they pay this tax, they starve. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To discharge or fulfill, as a duy; to perform or render duty, as that which has been promised. [ 1913 Webster ]

This day have I paid my vows. Prov. vii. 14. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. To give or offer, without an implied obligation; as, to pay attention; to pay a visit. [ 1913 Webster ]

Not paying me a welcome. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

To pay off. (a) To make compensation to and discharge; as, to pay off the crew of a ship. (b) To allow (a thread, cord, etc.) to run off; to unwind. (c) to bribe. --
To pay one's duty, to render homage, as to a sovereign or other superior. --
To pay out (Naut.), to pass out; hence, to slacken; to allow to run out; as, to pay out more cable. See under Cable. --
To pay the piper, to bear the cost, expense, or trouble. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To give a recompense; to make payment, requital, or satisfaction; to discharge a debt. [ 1913 Webster ]

The wicked borroweth, and payeth not again. Ps. xxxvii. 21. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Hence, to make or secure suitable return for expense or trouble; to be remunerative or profitable; to be worth the effort or pains required; as, it will pay to ride; it will pay to wait; politeness always pays. [ 1913 Webster ]

To pay for. (a) To make amends for; to atone for; as, men often pay for their mistakes with loss of property or reputation, sometimes with life. (b) To give an equivalent for; to bear the expense of; to be mulcted on account of. [ 1913 Webster ] 'T was I paid for your sleeps; I watched your wakings. Beau. & Fl. [ 1913 Webster ] --
To pay off. [ Etymol. uncertain. ] (a) (Naut.) To fall to leeward, as the head of a vessel under sail. (b) to repay (a debt). --
To pay on. [ Etymol. uncertain. ] To beat with vigor; to redouble blows. [ Colloq. ] --
To pay round [ Etymol. uncertain. ] (Naut.) To turn the ship's head. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. Satisfaction; content. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. An equivalent or return for money due, goods purchased, or services performed; salary or wages for work or service; compensation; recompense; payment; hire; as, the pay of a clerk; the pay of a soldier. [ 1913 Webster ]

Where only merit constant pay receives. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

There is neither pay nor plunder to be got. L'Estrange. [ 1913 Webster ]

Full pay, the whole amount of wages or salary; maximum pay; especially, the highest pay or allowance to civil or military officers of a certain rank, without deductions. --
Half pay. See under Half. --
Pay day, the day of settlement of accounts. --
Pay dirt (Mining), earth which yields a profit to the miner. [ Western U.S. ] --
Pay office, a place where payment is made. --
Pay roll, (a) a roll or list of persons entitled to payment, with the amounts due; now usually one word, payroll. (b) the total sum of money which is paid to all employees on payday. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

a. [ Cf. F. payable. Cf. Pacable. ] 1. That may, can, or should be paid; suitable to be paid; justly due. Drayton. [ 1913 Webster ]

Thanks are a tribute payable by the poorest. South. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Law) (a) That may be discharged or settled by delivery of value. (b) Matured; now due. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. money that a person or organization expects and is obligated to pay on notes and accounts. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. same as retribution. [ informal ] [ PJC ]

2. same as requital. [ informal ] [ PJC ]

. A staff corps in the United States navy, consisting of pay directors, pay inspectors, paymasters, passed assistant paymasters, and assistant paymasters, having relative rank from captain to ensign, respectively. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

prop. n. the British system of withholding tax. [ Acronym ]
Syn. -- pay as you earn. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. The person to whom money is to be, or has been, paid; the person named in a bill or note, to whom, or to whose order, the amount is promised or directed to be paid. See Bill of exchange, under Bill. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. & a. Pagan. [ F. ] [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who pays; specifically, the person by whom a bill or note has been, or should be, paid. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. the act of paying money.
Syn. -- payment, defrayal, defrayment. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. yielding material gain or profit; as, paying investments. [ Ant: unprofitable ]
Syn. -- profitable. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. providing a salary for work performed; as, a paying job. [ prenominal ] [ Ant: unpaid ]
Syn. -- compensable, remunerative, salaried, stipendiary, gainful. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

pos>n. The part of a missile or torpedo that carries the explosive charge.
Syn. -- warhead, load. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. The goods carried by a large vehicle.
Syn. -- cargo, lading, freight, load, loading, shipment, consignment. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. One who pays; one who compensates, rewards, or requites; specifically, an officer or agent of a government, a corporation, or an employer, whose duty it is to pay salaries, wages, etc., and keep account of the same. [ 1913 Webster ]

. 1. (a) (Mil.) In the United States army, an officer of the rank of brigadier general, who commands the pay department, which is charged with the payment of the officers and men. (b) (Nav.) In the United States navy, the Chief of the Bureau of Provisions and Clothing, who has charge of the payment of officers and men and their clothing and subsistence. He has the rank of rear admiral. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

2. In Great Britain, an officer of the Treasury who makes all payments and disbursements, civil as well as military. He is a member of the ministry, but not of the cabinet. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ F. payment, paiement. See Pay to requite. ] 1. The act of paying, or giving compensation; the discharge of a debt or an obligation. [ 1913 Webster ]

No man envieth the payment of a debt. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. That which is paid; the thing given in discharge of a debt, or an obligation, or in fulfillment of a promise; reward; recompense; requital; return. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Punishment; chastisement. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OF. & F. pain, fr. L. panis bread. ] Bread. Having Piers Plowman. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OF. pain bread + demaine manorial, lordly, own, private. See Payn, and Demesne. Said to be so called from the figure of our Lord impressed upon it. ] The finest and whitest bread made in the Middle Ages; -- called also paynemain, payman. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

A process for preserving timber and rendering it incombustible by impregnating it successively with solutions of sulphate of iron and calcium chloride in vacuo. -- Payn"ize, v. t. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

n. & a. See Painim. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ From Mr. Payne, the inventor. ] To treat or preserve, as wood, by a process resembling kyanizing. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. profit or gain from an action; -- used broadly; as, lots of effort with little payoff. [ PJC ]

2. retribution, payback. [ PJC ]

3. The act of giving or receiving money or other valuable consideration as a bribe.
Syn. -- bribe. [ PJC ]

4. The money or item given as a bribe. [ PJC ]

5. same as compensation 2.
Syn. -- compensation, remuneration, recompense. [ PJC ]

6. The climax or final result of an event or endeavor; the denoument of a narrative. [ PJC ]

n. (Law) See Payer. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. a coin-operated telephone.
Syn. -- pay-station. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

{ etc. } 1. (Mining) Earth, rock, etc., which yields a profit to the miner. [ Western U. S. ] [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

2. a discovery, especially after an exploratory process, which yields a profit or sought-after benefit; -- used especially in the phrase “to hit pay dirt”. [ PJC ]

v. t. To poise. [ Obs. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. the total amount of money paid in wages; as, the company had a large paysheet.
Syn. -- payroll. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. a list of employees and their salaries; as, the company had a long paysheet.
Syn. -- payroll. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. a slip of paper included with a person's salary payment, that records how much money the person has earned and how much tax or insurance etc. has been taken out. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. a coin-operated telephone.
Syn. -- pay-phone. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

. 1. (Mining) The zone, parallel to the walls of a vein, in which the ore is concentrated, or any narrow streak of paying ore in less valuable material. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

2. (Oil Boring) A stratum of oil sand thick enough to make a well pay. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. (Chem.) An alkaloid obtained from a white bark resembling that of the cinchona, first brought from Payta, in Peru. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Prepaid p. pr. & vb. n. Prepaying. ] To pay in advance, or beforehand; as, to prepay postage. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Payment in advance. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who pays rates or taxes. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Repaid p. pr. & vb. n. Repaying. ] [ Pref. re- + pay: cf. F. repayer. ] 1. To pay back; to refund; as, to repay money borrowed or advanced. [ 1913 Webster ]

If you repay me not on such a day,
In such a place, such sum or sums. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To make return or requital for; to recompense; -- in a good or bad sense; as, to repay kindness; to repay an injury. [ 1913 Webster ]

Benefits which can not be repaid . . . are not commonly found to increase affection. Rambler. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To pay anew, or a second time, as a debt. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- To refund; restore; return; recompense; compensate; remunerate; satisfy; reimburse; requite. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Capable of being, or proper to be, repaid; due; as, a loan repayable in ten days; services repayable in kind. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The act of repaying; reimbursement. Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The money or other thing repaid. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Spayed p. pr. & vb. n. Spaying. ] [ Cf. Armor. spac'hein, spaza to geld, W. dyspaddu to geld, L. spado a eunuch, Gr. &unr_;. ] To remove or extirpate the ovaries of, as a sow or a bitch; to castrate (a female animal). [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. Spade a spay, Spay, v. t. ] (Zool.) The male of the red deer in his third year; a spade. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. (Zool.) A spay. [ 1913 Webster ]