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Pad
() A soft, or small, cushion; a mass of anything soft; stuffing.
Pad
() 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.
Pad
() A cushion used as a saddle without a tree or frame.
Pad
() A stuffed guard or protection; esp., one worn on the legs of horses to prevent bruising.
Pad
() A cushionlike thickening of the skin one the under side of the toes of animals.
Pad
() A floating leaf of a water lily or similar plant.
Pad
() A soft bag or cushion to relieve pressure, support a part, etc.
Pad
() A piece of timber fixed on a beam to fit the curve of the deck.
Pad
() A measure for fish; as, sixty mackerel go to a pad; a basket of soles.
Padded
() of Pad
Padding
() of Pad
Pad
() To stuff; to furnish with a pad or padding.
Pad
() To imbue uniformly with a mordant; as, to pad cloth.
Padar
() Groats; coarse flour or meal.
Padder
() One who, or that which, pads.
Padder
() A highwayman; a footpad.
Padding
() The act or process of making a pad or of inserting stuffing.
Padding
() The material with which anything is padded.
Padding
() Material of inferior value, serving to extend a book, essay, etc.
Padding
() The uniform impregnation of cloth with a mordant.
Paddle
() To use the hands or fingers in toying; to make caressing strokes.
Paddle
() 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.
Paddled
() of Paddle
Paddling
() of Paddle
Paddle
() To pat or stroke amorously, or gently.
Paddle
() To propel with, or as with, a paddle or paddles.
Paddle
() To pad; to tread upon; to trample.
Paddle
() An implement with a broad blade, which is used without a fixed fulcrum in propelling and steering canoes and boats.
Paddle
() The broad part of a paddle, with which the stroke is made; hence, any short, broad blade, resembling that of a paddle.
Paddle
() One of the broad boards, or floats, at the circumference of a water wheel, or paddle wheel.
Paddle
() A small gate in sluices or lock gates to admit or let off water; -- also called clough.
Paddle
() A paddle-shaped foot, as of the sea turtle.
Paddle
() A paddle-shaped implement for string or mixing.
Paddle
() See Paddle staff (b), below.
Paddlecock
() The lumpfish.
Paddlefish
() 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.
Padder
() One who, or that which, paddles.
Paddlewood
() The light elastic wood of the Aspidosperma excelsum, a tree of Guiana having a fluted trunk readily split into planks.
Paddock
() A toad or frog.
Paddock
() A small inclosure or park for sporting.
Paddock
() A small inclosure for pasture; esp., one adjoining a stable.
Paddy
() Low; mean; boorish; vagabond.
Paddies
() of Paddy
Paddy
() A jocose or contemptuous name for an Irishman.
Paddy
() Unhusked rice; -- commonly so called in the East Indies.
Padelion
() A plant with pedately lobed leaves; the lady's mantle.
Padella
() 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.
Pademelon
() See Wallaby.
Padesoy
() See Paduasoy.
Padge
() The barn owl; -- called also pudge, and pudge owl.
