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Pack [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. A bundle of any thing inclosed in a cover or bound fast with cords; a bale; as a pack of goods or cloth. The soldier bears a pack on his back.

2. A burden or load; as a pack of sorrows.

3. A number of cards, or the number used in games; so called from being inclosed together.

4. A number of hounds or dogs, hunting or kept together, that is, a crowd or assemblage united.

5. A number of persons united in a bad design or practice; as a pack of thieves or knaves.

6. A great number crowded together; as a pack of troubles. [Not used.]

7. A loose or lewd person. [Not used.]

Pack [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. To be pressed or close; as, the goods pack well.

2. To close; to shut.

3. To depart in haste; with off.

4. Poor Stella must pack off to town.

5. To unite in bad measures; to confederate for ill purposes; to join in collusion.

6. Go, pack with him.

Pack [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. To place and press together; to place in close order; as, to pack goods in a box or chest.

2. To put together and bind fast; as, to pack any thing for carriage with cords or straps.

3. To put in close order with salt intermixed; as, to pack meat or fish in barrels.

4. To send in haste.

5. To put together, as cards, in such a manner as to secure the game; to put together in sorts with a fraudulent design, as cards; hence, to unite persons iniquitously, with a view to some private interest; as, to pack a jury, that is, to select persons for a jury who may favor a party; to pack a parliament; to pack an assembly of bishops.

Pack [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. A pact.

2. A bundle made up and prepared to be carried; especially, a bundle to be carried on the back; a load for an animal; a bale, as of goods.

3. A number or quantity equal to the contents of a pack; hence, a multitude; a burden.

4. A number or quantity of connected or similar things

5. A full set of playing cards; also, the assortment used in a particular game; as, a euchre pack.

6. A number of hounds or dogs, hunting or kept together.

7. A number of persons associated or leagued in a bad design or practice; a gang; as, a pack of thieves or knaves.

8. A shook of cask staves.

9. A bundle of sheet-iron plates for rolling simultaneously.

10. A large area of floating pieces of ice driven together more or less closely.

11. An envelope, or wrapping, of sheets used in hydropathic practice, called dry pack, wet pack, cold pack, etc., according to the method of treatment.

12. A loose, lewd, or worthless person. See Baggage.

13. To make a pack of; to arrange closely and securely in a pack; hence, to place and arrange compactly as in a pack; to press into close order or narrow compass; as to pack goods in a box; to pack fish.

14. To fill in the manner of a pack, that is, compactly and securely, as for transportation; hence, to fill closely or to repletion; to stow away within; to cause to be full; to crowd into; as, to pack a trunk; the play, or the audience, packs the theater.

15. To sort and arrange (the cards) in a pack so as to secure the game unfairly.

16. Hence: To bring together or make up unfairly and fraudulently, in order to secure a certain result; as, to pack a jury or a causes.

17. To contrive unfairly or fraudulently; to plot.

18. To load with a pack; hence, to load; to encumber; as, to pack a horse.

19. To cause to go; to send away with baggage or belongings; esp., to send away peremptorily or suddenly; -- sometimes with off; as, to pack a boy off to school.

20. To transport in a pack, or in the manner of a pack (i. e., on the backs of men or beasts).

21. To envelop in a wet or dry sheet, within numerous coverings. See Pack, n., 5.

22. To render impervious, as by filling or surrounding with suitable material, or to fit or adjust so as to move without giving passage to air, water, or steam; as, to pack a joint; to pack the piston of a steam engine.

Pack [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To make up packs, bales, or bundles; to stow articles securely for transportation.

2. To admit of stowage, or of making up for transportation or storage; to become compressed or to settle together, so as to form a compact mass; as, the goods pack conveniently; wet snow packs well.

3. To gather in flocks or schools; as, the grouse or the perch begin to pack.

4. To depart in haste; -- generally with off or away.

5. To unite in bad measures; to confederate for ill purposes; to join in collusion.

Pack herse Webster's Dictionary 1913

See under 2d Pack.

Pack saddle Webster's Dictionary 1913

Alt. of Pack thread

Pack thread Webster's Dictionary 1913

See under 2d Pack.

Package [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. A bundle or bale; a quantity pressed or bound together; as a package of cloth.

2. A charge made for packing goods.

Package [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. Act or process of packing.

2. A bundle made up for transportation; a packet; a bale; a parcel; as, a package of goods.

3. A charge made for packing goods.

4. A duty formerly charged in the port of London on goods imported or exported by aliens, or by denizens who were the sons of aliens.

Packcloth [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

A cloth for packing goods, or in which they are tied.

Packed [Participle passive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Put together and pressed; tied or bound in a bundle; put down and salted, as meat; sent off; united iniquitously.

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

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Packer [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

One that packs; an officer appointed to pack meat, as beef, port, fish, etc.

Packer [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A person whose business is to pack things; especially, one who packs food for preservation; as, a pork packer.

Packet [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. A small pack or package; a little bundle or parcel; as a packet of letters.

2. A dispatch-vessel; a ship or other vessel employed by government to convey letters from country to country or from port to port.

3. A vessel employed in conveying dispatches and passengers from place to place, or to carry passengers and goods coastwise.

Packet [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

To ply with a packet or dispatch-vessel.

Packet [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. A small pack or package; a little bundle or parcel; as, a packet of letters.

2. Originally, a vessel employed by government to convey dispatches or mails; hence, a vessel employed in conveying dispatches, mails, passengers, and goods, and having fixed days of sailing; a mail boat.

Packet [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

To ply with a packet or dispatch boat.

Packet [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To make up into a packet or bundle.

2. To send in a packet or dispatch vessel.

Packet-boat [\N] Webster's Dictionary 1828

PACKET-BOAT . [ See Packet .]

Packet-ship [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

A ship that sails regularly between distant countries for the conveyance of dispatches, letters, passengers, etc.

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

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Packeting [Present participle and verbal noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Packfong [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A Chinese alloy of nickel, zinc, and copper, resembling German silver.

Packhorse [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. A horse employed in carrying packs or goods and baggage.

2. A beast of burden.

Packhouse [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Warehouse for storing goods.

Packing [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

A trick; collusion.

Packing [Participle present tense] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Laying together in close order; binding in a bundle; putting in barrels with salt, etc.; uniting, as men for a fraudulent purpose.

Packing [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. The act or process of one who packs.

2. Any material used to pack, fill up, or make close.

3. A substance or piece used to make a joint impervious

4. A thin layer, or sheet, of yielding or elastic material inserted between the surfaces of a flange joint.

5. The substance in a stuffing box, through which a piston rod slides.

6. A yielding ring, as of metal, which surrounds a piston and maintains a tight fit, as inside a cylinder, etc.

7. Same as Filling.

8. A trick; collusion.

Packing [Present participle and verbal noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Packman [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

One who bears a pack; a peddler.

Packmen [Plural] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Packsaddle [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

A saddle on which packs or burdens are laid for conveyance.

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Genesis 43:11

And their father Israel said unto them, If it must be so now, do this; take of the best fruits in the land in your vessels, and carry down the man a present, a little balm, and a little honey, spices, and myrrh, nuts, and almonds:

Then their father Israel said to them, “If it must be so, then do this: Put some of the best products of the land in your packs and carry them down as a gift for the man—a little balm and a little honey, spices and myrrh, pistachios and almonds.

Joshua 9:12

This our bread we took hot for our provision out of our houses on the day we came forth to go unto you; but now, behold, it is dry, and it is mouldy:

This bread of ours was warm when we packed it at home on the day we left to come to you. But take a look, it is now dry and moldy.

1 Samuel 9:7

Then said Saul to his servant, But, behold, if we go, what shall we bring the man? for the bread is spent in our vessels, and there is not a present to bring to the man of God: what have we?

“If we do go,” Saul replied, “what can we give the man? For the bread in our packs is gone, and there is no gift to take to the man of God. What do we have?”

Jeremiah 46:19

O thou daughter dwelling in Egypt, furnish thyself to go into captivity: for Noph shall be waste and desolate without an inhabitant.

Pack your bags for exile, O daughter dwelling in Egypt! For Memphis will be laid waste, destroyed and uninhabited.

Ezekiel 12:3

Therefore, thou son of man, prepare thee stuff for removing, and remove by day in their sight; and thou shalt remove from thy place to another place in their sight: it may be they will consider, though they be a rebellious house.

Therefore, son of man, pack your bags for exile. In broad daylight, set out from your place and go to another as they watch. Perhaps they will understand, though they are a rebellious house.

Acts 21:15

And after those days we took up our carriages, and went up to Jerusalem.

After these days, we packed up and went on to Jerusalem.