pad3 (pad)

t.; pret. and pp. padded, ppr. padding. [ I thought we knew him: What, it's you, The padded man - that wears the stays! Tennyson, The New Timon. 2. To expand by the insertion of extraneous or needle matter, or the use of unnece ary words: as, to pad an article in a newspaper; to pad out a page in a book.-3. In calico - print ing, to impregnate (the cotton cloth to be printed) with a mordant. It is done in a machine called a padding - machine (which see). The cloth intended to be dyed is first steeped and pad ded about in buffalo's or sheep's milk, and next exposed to the sun. W. Crookes , Dyeing and Calico-Printing, p. 321. 4. To glue the edges of (sheets of paper) together, so as to form a pad. [Colloq.] A half-pint of the cement will pad a vast quantity of sheets. The Writer, III. 82. 5. In mech., to puncture with numerous fine holes, as the end of a pipe, or the rose on the end of a nozle. [Eng.] In order to prevent a false reading of the water gauge, it was " padded "- that is to say, the end of the tube in the top of the upcast shaft was perforated with numerous small holes. The Engineer, LXVII. 39. Padded cell, padded room, in a prison or an insane-asylum, a room having the walls padded or cushioned, to prevent prisoners or violent patients confined in it from doing themselves injury by dashing themselves against the walls. pad4 (pad), n. [Also ped ; pedde ; perhaps another use of pad3 . Hence pedder , pedler, pedlar, peddler, etc., and (prob.) in comp. padlock .] A pannier; a basket. Hall i well .