pacificatory (pas if ikat or i)

[L. pacifi catorius, peace-making, Whereupon a certayne agreement pacificatorie was concluded betweene them. Foxe, Martyrs, p. 1949. "Molly's but four-and-twenty," said Sylvia, in a pacifi . catory tone. Mrs. Gaskell , Sylvia's Lovers, xxxix. pacific oust (pā-sif'i-kus), a. [ pacific us , pacific: see pacific .] Peaceful. Cotgrave . He watch'd when the king's affections were most still and pacific ous . Bp . Hacket , Abp. Williams, i. 63. ( Davies .) pacifier (pas'i-fi-er), n. One who pacifies. pacify (pas'i-fi), v . t .; pret. and pp. pacified , ppr. pacifying . [ pacifien , pacefyen , pacifier , F. pacifier = Sp. Pg. pacificar = It. pacific are , pacific are , make peace (cf. pacific us , making peace: see pacific ), pax (pac-), peace (see peace ), + facere , make: see -fy.] 1. To appease; calm; quiet; allay the agitation or excitement of: as, to pacify a man when angry. Soft words pacify wrath. Burton , Anat. of Mel., p. 379. My Guide at last pacify'd them and fetched my Hat, and we marched away as fast as we could. Dampier , Voyages, II. i. 92. My dear sir, be pacified . What can you have but asking pardon? Goldsmith, Good-natured Man, v. 4224 I rather chose To cro my friend in his intended drift Than, by concealing it, heap on your head A pack of sorrows which would pre you down. Shak., T. G. of V., iii. 1. 20. 3. A bundle of some particular kind or quantity. (a) A local and customary unit of weight for wool and flax, generally 480 or 240 pounds. (b) A measure of coal containing about three Winchester bushels. Hall i well, [Prov. Eng.] (c) The staves and heads of a cask secured in a compact bundle; a shook. (d) A bundle of sheet iron plates intended to be heated together or rolled into one. (e) A package of gold-leaf containing 20 "books" of 25 leaves each. (f) A load for a pack-animal. 4. A complete set, as of playing-cards (52 in number), or the number used in any particular game. The pack or set of cards, in the old plays, is continually called a pair of cards, which has suggested the idea that anciently two packs of cards were used, a custom common enough at present in playing at quadrille. Strutt , Sports and Pastimes, p. 433. "Sir Mulberry Hawk," said Ralph. "Otherwise the most knowing card in the paack , Mi Nickle by," said Lord Frederick Verisopht. Dickens, Nicholas Nickle by, xix. 5. A number of animals herded together by gregarious instinct for combined defense or offense (as a pack of wolves), or kept together for hunting in company (as a pack of hounds). See hound. He cast off his friends as a huntsman his pack , For he knew when he pleased he could whistle them back. Goldsmith, Retaliation, 1. 107. He kept a pack of dogs better than any man in the country. Add is on, Sir Roger and Will Wimble. 6. A set or gang (of people): used derogatorily, and especially of persons banded together in some notorious practice, or characterized by low ways: as, a pack of thieves. And yit they were hethene al the pak , That were so sore adrad of alle shame. Chaucer, Good Women, 1. 299 (1st version). The Archbishop of Canterbury was lately outraged in his House by a pack of common People. Howell , Letters, I. vi. 43. IMG:content-2110.png:[blocks in formation] Cocles. God save you, sir! Master. What does this idle pack want? Bailey, tr. of Colloquies of Erasmus, I. 76. 8. A considerable area of floating ice in the polar seas, more or le flat, broken into large pieces by the action of wind and waves, and He pacefyed the contre thorugh-oute, As well in meddes as at endys had. Rom . of Partenay (E. E. T. S.), 1. 2530. He went on as far as York, to pacify and settle those countries. Bacon . =Syn. To conciliate, a uage, still, lull, smooth, compose, soothe, mollify. Pacinian (pā-sin'i-an), a. [ Pacini (see def.) + -an.] Pertaining to the anatomist Pacini (1812-83), or described by him, as an anatomical structure. Also Paccinian .-Pacinian body or corpuscle. See corpuscle. pack1 (pak), n. [ pacco (ML. paccus ), dim. OF. pacquet, paquet, F. paquet (> packet, q. v.) = Sp. paquete = pacchetto, pachetto; also in Celtic: Gael. Ir. рас = Bret. pak, a pack, bundle, parcel, etc. The Teut. forms are prob. from the Rom.forms; whether these are from the Celtic is uncertain, The ult. root is prob. that of L. pangere ( √ pag ), Skt. paç, fasten: see pact. In some later uses (defs. 8-11) the noun is from the verb.] 1. A bundle of anything inclosed in a wrapping or bound fast with cords; especially, a bundle or bale made up to be carried on the back of man or beast: in modern times applied especially to such a bale carried by a peddler. There the poure pre eth by-fore with a pak at hus rygge [back]. Piers Plowman (C), xvii. 55. He rolled his pack all on his back, And he came tripping o'er the lee. Bold Pedlar and Robin Hood (Child's Ballads, V. 249), The imagery [of speech) doth appear in figure, whereas in thoughts they lie but in packs . Bacon, Friendship. A furnish'd pack , whose wares Are sullen griefs, and soul-tormenting cares. Quarles, Emblems, iii. 8. A pedlar's pack, that bows the bearer down. Cowper , Task, i. 465. 2. A collection; a budget; a stock or store: as, a pack of troubles; a pack of lies. nearly coherent ma . A pack is said to be open when the pieces of ice are generally detached, and close when the pieces are in contact. pack There were my trunks, packed , locked, corded, ranged in a row along the wall of my little chamber. Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre, xxv. 3. To arrange or dispose with a view to future use and activity; especially, to prepare and put up in suitable ve els for preservation, or in a form suitable for market: as, to pack herrings; to pack pork, fruit, eggs, etc. Almost as neat and close as Nature packs Her blo om or her seedling. Tennyson, Enoch Arden. 4. In hydrotherapy, to envelop (the body or some part of it) in wet cloths, which may be covered over with dry ones.-5. To stuff an interstice or space with something that will render it air-, vapor-, or water-tight; make air-tight, steamtight, etc., by stuffing: as, to pack a joint, or the piston of a steam-engine.-6. To force or pre down or together firmly; compact, as snow, ice, earth, sand, or any loose or floating material. In Robeson Channel the ice was packed closely to the Green land coast, while to the north the sea was covered with level ice, broken in occasional places by water-spaces. A. W. Greely, Arctic Service, p. 98. 7. To a emble or bring together closely and compactly; crowd, as persons in a room or a vehicle. He [Cæsar] was fayne to packe vp his souldiers in le e roume closer together. Golding , tr. of Cæsar, fol. 122. Two citizens, who take the air, Close pack'd , and smiling, in a chaise and one. Cowper , Task, i. 80. 8. To bring together, arrange with, or manipulate (cards, persons, facts, statements, etc.) so as to serve one's own purposes; manipulate. (a) In gaming, to arrange (the cards) in such a way as to secure an undue advantage. There be that can pack the cards, and yet cannot play Bacon , Cunning. well. To pack the cards, and with some coz'ning trick His fellow's purse of all his coin to pick. J. Dennys (Arber's Eng. Garner, I, 157). And mighty dukes pack cards for half-a-crown. Pope , Moral E ays, iii. 142. (b) To bring together (the persons who are to constitute so some deliberative body) improperly and corruptly, with the view of promoting or deciding in favor of some particular interest or party: as, to pack a jury; to pack a committee. What course may be taken that, though the King do use such providence and leave not things to chance, yet it may have no shew, nor scandal, nor nature of the packing or bringing of a Parliament; but, contrariwise, that it tendeth to have a Parliament truly free and not packed against him. Bacon, Incidents of a Parliament. If any durst his factious friends accuse, He packed a jury of di enting Jews. Dryden, Abs. and Achit., i. 607. It is evident that, so far as New York and Pennsylvania are concerned, all efforts to pack the delegations to the National Republican Convention this year will meet with strenuous opposition. The Nation, XXXVIII. 182. 9. To carry on the back; transport on the backs of men or beasts. In one hour after we reached it [free water], the place we left was consolidated into pack . Kane , Sec. Grinn. Exp., I. 35. 9. In hydrotherapy , a wet sheet with other cov- ering for closely enveloping the body or a part of it; the proce of thus wrapping, or the state of being so wrapped.-10. In the fisheries: (a) The quantity or number of that which is unfrequently to such plethoric dimensions as to require packed, as fish: as, the salmon - pack was large that year. (b) Same as steeple. After a fortnight's drying, the fish should be put into a pack or steeple, for the purpose of sweating. Perley. 11. In coal - mining, a wall of rough stone or of blocks of coal built for the purpose of support ing the roof. - Mazy pack. See mazy. = Syn. 1. Packet, parcel, burden, load.-2. A ortment.-5. Brood, Covey. See flock1.-6. Gang, crew, lot. pack1 (pak), v. [ And gepliche he secheth Pruyde, with alle the port in a unce, and packeth hem to- gederes. Piers Plowman (C), xvii. 329. The gifts she looks from me are pack'd and lock'd Up in my heart. Shak ., W. T., iv. 4. 369. The farmer vext packs up his beds and chairs, And all his household stuff. Tennyson, Walking to the Mail. 2. To fill with things arranged more or le methodically; stow: as, to pack a chest or a hamper. Our thighs pack'd with wax, our mouths with honey, We bring it to the hive, and, like the bees, Are murdered for our pains. Shak ., 2 Hen. IV., iv. 5. 77. I take old Manitou to carry me to and from the grounds and to pack out any game that may be killed. T. Roosevelt, Hunting Trips, p. 139. The [gold-]"dust"... filled the buckskin pouches, not the a istance of a sumpter horse to pack it down from the mines, Fortnightly Rev., N. S., XXXIX. 52. 10. To load with a pack or packs. An it be not four by the day, I'll be hanged: Charles' wain is over the new chimney, and yet our horse not packed. What, ostler! Shak., 1 Hen. IV., ii. 1. 3. 11. To send off or away summarily; specifically, to dismi or discharge from one's employment: an impudent servant. You lie not in my house; I'll pack you out , And pay for your lodging rather. Beau , and Fl ., Wit at Several Weapons, iv. 1. Times Whistle (E. E. T. S.), p. 39. She shall be soon pact after too, that 's flat. IMG:content-2111.png:[blocks in formation] She will be packed off to live among her relations. Goldsmith, Citizen of the World, xix. To pack out, to unpack or give out, as a cargo of fish: as, the schooner packed out 500 barrels of mackerel. II. in trans. 1. To engage ge in in putt in putting together or stowing goods, etc., in packs, bundles, bales, boxes, barrels, etc., for transportation or storage.-2. In mining , to strike light blows on the edge of the keeve, so as to a ist the separation of the ore from the veinstone. See to .-3. To admit of being stowed or put together in an orderly arrangement in small compa : as, the goods pack well.-4. To settle into a compact ma ; become compacted or firmly pre ed: as, wet snow packs readily.-5. To gather toge ther in packs, flocks, or bands: as, the grouse begin to pack . -6. To depart in haste, as when summarily dismi ed; be off at once: generally with off , away , etc. Go, pack thou hence unto the Stygian lake. Greene, Alphonsus, ii. Then down came Jacob at the gate, And bids her pack to hell. Rough-looking miners and packers , whose busine it is to guide the long mule-trains that go where wagons can- not, and whose work in packing needs special and peculiar skill. T. Roosevelt, The Century, XXXV. 502. 5. A government officer charged with the in- spection of provisions packed for export.-6. A ring by which the space between the tubing and the walls of an oil-well is closed and made A. Was not a pack agreed twixt thee and me? C. A pact to make thee tell thy secrecy. IMG:content-2112.png:[blocks in formation] -7. The variously constructed mechanism by which the grain cut by a reaping-machine is packed or compre ed on the binding-table and held till embraced and bound by the twine. packet (pak'et), n . [Formerly also pacquet (= G. packet ); pacquet , paquet , F. paquet = Sp. paquete = It. pacchetto , dim. of pacque , a pack: see pack1 .] 1. A small pack or pack- age; a parcel; a mail of letters. The Heathenish and Popish, and all those other packets of miracles, which we receiue by the Iesuites annuall re- lations from the East and West Indies. All Letters more than 80 Miles is 3d. Single and 6d. Dou- ble Pacquet 12d. an Ounce. Quoted in Ashton's Social Life in Reign of Queen Anne, [I. 133. I have lately been looking over the many packets of let- ters which I have received from all quarters of Great Britain. Steele, Tatler, No. 164. 2. A despatch-ve el; a ship or other ve el employed to convey letters from country to country or from port to port; a ve el employ- ed in carrying mails, goods, and pa engers at stated intervals; hence, a ve el starting on regular days, or at an appointed time. Also called packet - boat , packet - ship , packet - ve el . From the earliest times New York has been the port of departure for packets steering for our Southern ports. 3. The panel of a packhorse. [Cheshire, Eng.] Wright.-4. A pack (250 leaves) of leaf-metal. packet (pak'et), v. t. [ packet , n.] 1. To bind up in a package or parcel. My resolution is to send you all your letters well sealed and packeted . Swift , Letters. When Mr. Müntz has done, you will be so good as to pacquet him up, and send him to Strawberry. Walpole, Letters, II. 472. ments and fitted with springs to pre them against the interior of the cylin- In 1786 he [Cartwright] devoted him- self to improvements, which include metallic packing to the piston in the steam-engine, which he patented in 1797 and 1801. A. Barlow , Weaving, p. 235. (b) Tubes of lead or other soft metal filled with some vegetable material, such as hemp or cotton. The ends of the tubes are either forced or sol- dered together. - Oil-well packing, a packing inserted between the pipe and the interior surface of the boring in an oil-well to keep surface-water, or water from the sides of the hole, from running into the well, and to prevent oil in some wells from being forced out around the pipe by a pres- sure of gas. The packing originally used was a leather bag filled with flaxseed, called a seed - bag , made in the form of a ring. The flaxseed, swelling on being wetted, closed tightly the opening to be stopped. This packing swelled so tightly as to be very diff i cult to remove-a difficulty which led to the invention of many substi- tutes. One of these is the modern water-packing, which consists of an annular leather packing, concave on the upper surface, surrounding the pipe, and held in position by a screw- joint. The weight of the superincumbent water pre es this packing closely against the interior of the bore. Another form of oil-well packing, which stops efflux of oil under internal gas-pre ure, as well as influx of sur- face-water, is shown in the accompanying cut. packing2 (pak'ing), n . [Verbal n. of pack2 , v .] Collusion; trickery; cheating. Here's packing , with a witne , to deceive us all! Shak., T. of the S., v. 1. 121. IMG:content-2113.png:[blocks in formation] ship. Simmonds. packet-note (pak'et-not), n. A folded writing- paper, 9 × 11 inches. packet-ship (pak'et-ship), n. Same as packet , 2. packet , 2. Thus, if wine is imported in hogsheads, the hogshead is the original package; if in bottles packed in cases handled packfong (pak'fong), n. An erroneous form of separately, the case is the original package. packaging (pak'aj-ing), n. [ package + -ing1 .] The act of making into packages. Packaging- machine, a machine for bundling yarns or other goods into compact shape for transportation; a bundling-pre . E. H. Knight. IMG:content-2114.png:[ocr errors] paktong . packhorse (pak'hôrs), n. A horse used as a pack-animal in carrying burdens; hence, figur- atively, a drudge. I was a pack - horse in his great affairs,. To royalise his blood I spilt mine own. The slaves of custom and establish'd mode, With packhorse constancy we keep the road. packing-cell (pak'ing-sel), n. In bot . See len- ticel , 1. packing-crib (pak'ing-krib), n. A place where mackerel are packed in barrels and marked ac- cording to their respective grades. packing-expander (pak'ing-eks-pan"dėr), n. A spring A spring or other device for spreading the pack- ing of a valve or piston against the surface upon pack-house (pak'hous), n. A warehouse for receiving and storing goods. pack-ice (pak'is), n. the polar seas, a coling of valveris lection of large pieces of floating ice of indefi- nite extent. Compare pack1 , n ., 8. As the tide turned, a strip of pack - ice about a mile wide separated us from open water to the south. A. W. Greely, Arctic Service, p. 91. packing1 (pak'ing), n. [Verbal n. of pack1 , v .] 1. Any material used for filling an empty space, closing a joint, and the like; stuffing, as the filling of a piston or a well-tube. One day, in the forenoon, the engine was working badly, the packing having got too loose. Sci . Amer ., N. S., LIV. 69. 2. In printing , the fabric used on printing- pre es between the iron platen or cylinder and the sheet to be printed. A soft packing is a blanket of wool or rubber cloth, which equalizes the imprentet A hard packing is made of glazed millboard or of smooth hard paper, which prevents indentation. 3. In masonry , small stones embedded in mor- tar, employed to fill up the vacant spaces in the middle of walls; rubble.-4. The act of sheet. 4226 packing-pennyt (pak'ing-pen"i), n . A small packsheet (pak'shēt), n. Same as packing- sum given in dismi ing a person.- To give a packing-penny, to send (a person) packing, or about his Fie, fie! Will you give busine . A packing penny to virginity? I thought you'd dwell so long in Cypres isle, You'd worship Madam Venus at the length. packstaff (pak's taf), n.; pl. pack staves (-stavz). A staff on which a peddler rests the weight of his pack when he stops. To make all "as plain as a pack - staff . " J. Bradford , Works (Parker Soc., 1853), II. 319. Not riddle-like, obscuring their intent, But pack - staffe plaine, uttering what thing they ment. Bp . Hall , Satires, vii., Prol. [Sometimes used attributively in contempt. valve in a railway-car, or to make a joint airtight, etc. Sci. Amer., LIV. 69.