padishah, pad1sha

[Pers. padishah = great king, protector from pâd (Sansc. pat i ) =protector, king, from på to protect, and Pers. shah = king.] The title of the Sultan of Turkey and of the Shah of Persia. păd-lock, s . [Etym. of first element doubtful; perhaps = pad (2), s .=a pannier; Eng. lock .] 1. Lit .: A movable lock with a bow to pa through and fasten on to a staple. "Here's padlocks and bolts, and screws for the thumbs." Cowper: Sweet Meat has Sour Sauce, 2. Fig .: A curb, a restraint. "Clap your padlock on her mind." Prior: An English Padlock . păd-lock, v. t. [PADLOCK, s.] To fasten with a padlock; to provide with a padlock or padlocks. such an unmerciful and more than legal yoke be padlock'd upon the neck of any Christian." -Milton: Col aster i on. "Let not who are confined in it from injuring themselves. păd-der, s. [Eng. pad (1), v.; -er.] A footpad; a highwayman; a robber on foot. [FOOTPAD.] "He spurr'd, as jockies used to break, Or padders to secure a neck." Butler: Hudibras, iii. 1. păd'-ding, pr. par., a. & s. [PAD (2), v.] A. & B. As pr . par. & particip . adj .: (See the verb.) C. As substantive: I. Ordinary Language: 1. The act of stuffing or forming into a pad. 2. A substance or material used for stuffing a bolster, saddle, dre , . 3. A cloth worked out of rags for stuffing collars of coats, . 4. An article or matter inserted in a book, magazine, periodical, ., in order to extend it to a greater length or size; vamp. "[It] is one of those volumes which contain just matter enough to make a good pamphlet, swollen out by pad ding."- Saturday Review , Nov. 10, 1883, p. 614. of emergency. paddle-cock, 8. [LUMP-FISH.]