Pad

pad, n. Anything flattened or laid flat; a package of blotting paper; a soft saddle, cushion, or bolster a stuffed with straw, hair, or other soft substance; a measure for fish. — v. t. To stuff with padding. (Calico Printing.) To imbue equally with a mor of dant. — Pad'ding, n. Act or proce of making a pad; impregnation of cloth with a mordant; material for v. t. stuffing a saddle, garment, etc.; literary matter of inferio'r value used to fill a book, newspaper, etc.; to Paddle, pad'dl, v. i. [-dled (-did), -dling.] To toy to with hands or fingers; to beat water with the hands the or feet; to propel a boat with a paddle, — v. t. To for propel by an oar or paddle, — n. A short oar with a broad blade; the blade or the broad part of an oar or weapon; a short, broad blade resembling that of air, an oar; one of the broad boards at the circumference of a water-wheel; a small gate in sluices or lock gates; a paddle-shaped foot, as of the sea-turtle, etc.