Category:Pad

Pad, n. Etym: [d. pad. sq. root21. 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.]

Pad Pad, v. t.

Defn: to travel upon foot; to tread. [obs.] Padding the streets for half a crown. Somerville.

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.]

Pad Pad, n. Etym: [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. (zoöl.)

Defn: 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.)

Defn: a soft bag or cushion to relieve pressure, support a part, etc.

8. (naut.)

Defn: 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.

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)

Defn: to imbue uniformly with a mordant; as, to pad cloth. Ure.