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Pace [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. A step.

2. The space between the two feet in walking, estimated at two feet and a half. But the geometrical pace is five feet, or the whole space passed over by the same foot from one step to another. Sixty thousand such paces make one degree on the equator.

3. Manner of walking; a gait; as a languishing pace; a heavy pace; a quick or slow pace

4. Step; gradation in business. [Little used.]

5. A mode of stepping among horses, in which the legs on the same side are lifted together. In a general sense, the word may be applied to any other mode of stepping.

6. Degree of celerity. Let him mend his pace

7. To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow, creeps in this petty pace from day to day--

8. To keep or hold pace to keep up; to go or move as fast as something else.

Pace [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. To go; to walk; to move.

2. To go, move or walk slowly.

3. To move by lifting the legs on the same side together, as a horse.

Pace [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. To measure by steps; as, to pace a piece of ground.

2. To regulate in motion.

3. If you ca, pace your wisdom in that good path that I would wish it go--

Pace [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. A single movement from one foot to the other in walking; a step.

2. The length of a step in walking or marching, reckoned from the heel of one foot to the heel of the other; -- used as a unit in measuring distances; as, he advanced fifty paces.

3. Manner of stepping or moving; gait; walk; as, the walk, trot, canter, gallop, and amble are paces of the horse; a swaggering pace; a quick pace.

4. A slow gait; a footpace.

5. Specifically, a kind of fast amble; a rack.

6. Any single movement, step, or procedure.

7. A broad step or platform; any part of a floor slightly raised above the rest, as around an altar, or at the upper end of a hall.

8. A device in a loom, to maintain tension on the warp in pacing the web.

Pace [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To go; to walk; specifically, to move with regular or measured steps.

2. To proceed; to pass on.

3. To move quickly by lifting the legs on the same side together, as a horse; to amble with rapidity; to rack.

4. To pass away; to die.

Pace [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To walk over with measured tread; to move slowly over or upon; as, the guard paces his round.

2. To measure by steps or paces; as, to pace a piece of ground.

3. To develop, guide, or control the pace or paces of; to teach the pace; to break in.

Paced [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. Having a particular gait; used chiefly in composition; as slow-paced.

2. In composition, going all lengths; as a thorough-paced intriguer.

Paced [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Having, or trained in, [such] a pace or gait; trained; -- used in composition; as, slow-paced; a thorough-paced villain.

Paced [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Pacer [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

One that paces; a horse that paces.

Pacer [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

One who, or that which, paces; especially, a horse that paces.