Tary to turn, at first, very briskly, not only be. caufe the liquor is then the strongest, but also because it requires a number of revolutions, when the axis is bare, to move a certain length of cloth in a given time, though this may be performed by a fingle revolution when the axis is filled. Ex. perience must teach how long the goods are to be worked; nor can any rule be given refpecting the quantity and ftrength of the liquor, in order to bleach a certain number of pieces. An intelligent workman will foon attain a fufficient knowledge of thefe points. It is hardly neceffary to obferve, that, if the liquor fhould retain any ftrength after a fet of pieces are bleached with it, it may again be employed for another fet. With a few alterations, this apparatus might be made applicable to the bleaching of yarn. If, for inftance, the pulley O were removed from the end of the axis K, and fixed immediately under the tube H:-if it were perforated in all directions, and tapes or ftrings paffed through the holes, fkains of yarn might be tied to thefe tapes underneath the pulley, fo as to hang down towards the bottom of the box. The apparatus being afterwards filled with bleaching liquor, and the axis turned, the motion would cause every thread to be acted upon by the liquor. Several axes might thus be turned in the fame box, and being connected with each other by pulleys, they might all be worked by one per fon at the fame time; and as all would turn the fame way and with the fame speed, the fkains could not poffibly entangle each other. OXYREGMIA, in medicine, fournefs of the ftomach, occasioning acid belches. See RUCTATION and ERUCTATION. * OXYRRHODINE. n. S. [ovgodirov, okus, and godov.] A mixture of two parts of oil of rofes with one of vinegar of rofes.-The fpirits, opiates, and cool things, readily compofe oxyrrhodines. Floyer! (1.) OXYRRNCHUS, in ichthyology, a fish of the trutaceous kind, often caught in the British feas, and carried to the Dutch markets among whitings. It is much of the figure and fize of trout, but a little flatter, and covered with large white scales. (2.) OXYRYNCHUS, in ancient geography, a town of Egypt, on the Nile. Strabo. OXYTOCHA, in midwifery, [from cor, fharp, and TITW, to bring forth], medicines given to promote delivery. OYAPOCK, a river of S. America, in Guiana, which runs into the Atlantic, near Cape Orange. (1.) OYE, a town of France, in the dep. of the Straits of Calais, feated on the Oye, (N° 2.) five miles W. of Gravelines, and seven ENE. of Calais, It formerly belonged to the English. (2.) OyE, a river of France, running into the Aa, near the above town. (3.) OYE, NORTH, two islands of Denmark in (4.) OYE, SOUTH, the North Sea, two and three miles N. of Nordftrand. (1.).* OYER. n. f. [oyer, old Fr. to hear.] A court of oyer and terminer is a judicature where caufes are heard and determined. (2.) OYER, in law-books, feems to have been anciently used for what is now called affifes. See ASSISE (3.)OYER, in geography, a town of Norway, 98 miles N. of Chriftiania. * OYES. {oyez, hear ye, French.] Is the introduction to any proclamation, or advertisement given by the public cries, both in England and Scotland. It is thrice repeated,→ Fairies, black, grey, green, and white, Attend your office and your quality. Crier hobgoblin make the fairy O yes. Shak O yes! if any happy eye This rowing wanton fhall defcry; Let the finder surely know Mine is the wag. Crafhaw. *OYLETHOLE. n. f. (It may be written oplet, from ocillet, Fr. but eglet feems better.]— Distinguish'd flashes deck the great, Prior. As each excels in birth or ftate; His oyletholes are more and ampler, The king's own body was a sampler. OYNE, a parish of Scotland, in Aberdeenshire, in the diftrict of Garioch, commonly pronounced Een. Its form is irregular, and its length and breadth vary from 3 to 4 miles. It is bounded by the Ury and Shevock on the N. and NE. by the Gady on the E. and by the Don on the S. The air is pure and healthy; the foil rich and very fertile; and husbandry in a fate of improvement, The harvest is commonly earlier than in any of the neighbouring diftricts. There are confiderable plantations of fruit and forest trees on the eftates of Wefthall, Tillyfour, and Pittodry, which makes them pleasant fummer retreats. The population, in 1793, was 630; the decrease 10, fince 1755+ The number of fheep was 1000; of horses 150; and black cattle. 600. There are two ancient Druidical temples. OYON, a town of Spain, in Alava. OYONGWONGEYK, a town of the United States, on Lake Ontario; 4 miles E. of Fort Niagara. OYONNAX, a town of France, in the dep. of Ain, 74 miles N. of Nantua, and 12 SSW. of St Claude.' OYSSEL, a town of France, in the department of the Lower Seine; 7 miles S. of Rouen. (1.) * OYSTER. n. f. [oefler, Dutch; buitre, French.] A bivalve teftaceous fish.— I will not thee a penny -Why then the world's mine offler, which I with fword will open. Shak. -Rich honesty dwells, like your mifer, Sir, in a poor houfe; as your pearl in your foul ofter. Shak.-Another mass held a kind of offer thell, and other bivalves. Woodward.-There may be many ranks of beings in the invifible world as fuperior to us, as we are fuperior to all the ranks of beings in this vifible world; though we descend below the cyfler to the leaft animated atoms difcovered by microscopes. Watts.— Where ofter tubs in rows Are rang'd befide the pofts, there stay thy haste, Gay. (2.) OYSTER, in Zoology. See OSTREA, and PECTEN. (3.) OYSTERS, FISHERY OF. See FISHERY, 13; and OSTREA. (4) OYSTERS, FOSSILE. The largest bed that is known of fofile oyfters is that near Reading in Berkshire. They are entirely fhaped, and have the fame fubftance with the recent oyster-fhells; and with a caries of the bones of the nofe, See Sua. GERY, Index. and yet fince the oldest histories that mention the place give an account of them, we muft fuppofe. they have lain there for a long time. They extend over no less than fix acres of ground. OYSTER BAY, a bay and township of New York, in Queen's county, Long Island. The lat. ter contained 4097, inhabitants in 1795; of whom 621 were electors, and 381 flaves. OYSTER-CATCHER. See HEMATOPUS. OYSTER-HAVEN, a fea port of Ireland, in Cork. (1.) OYSTER ISLAND, an island of Ireland on the W. coaft of Sligo Bay, 4 miles WNW. of Sligo. (2,3.) OYSTER ISLAND, an inland of Maffachufetts, near the SE. coaft, in a bay or harbour to which it gives name. Lon. 70. 24. W. Lat. 41. 35. N. OYSTER RIVER, a large river of New Zealand, abounding with oyfters, which runs into the S. head of Mercury Bay, in Lat. 36° 48′ 28′′ S. See Cook, No III. § 8. OYSTER SHELLS are an alkali far more powerful than is generally allowed, and in all probability much better medicines than many of the more coftly and pompous alkalis of the fame clafs. The proof of alkalis is in their folution by acid fpirits; and Mr Homberg found, that they diffolved far eafier in acids of nitre and fea-falt than either pearls or coral, or indeed than any of the reft. This he fuppofes to be owing to their contain ing in the body of the thell a large portion of fal falfus, which is eafily perceived upon the tongue, and which keeps the whole fubftance of the thell in a fort of half diffolved ftate. Thefe thells produce very fenfible effects on the ftomach, when it is injured by acid humours; and Mr Homberg thinks, that this eafinefs of folution is a great argument for their good effects, and that the quantity of fal falfus which it contains, contributes not a little towards it; for we are not to look upon, that as a falt merely, but as a falt of a peculiar nature, formed of fea falt by the organs of the animal, and the feveral, fermentations it undergoes in the body of it, in the fame manner as the nitrous and other falts of the earth cease to be nitrous, &c. when ever, they become blended with the juices of plants, and form with them a falt peculiar to that plant; which is evidently the cafe as far as refpects this falt, it being plainly of a more penetrating tafte, and of a different fmell, from the, falt left by the fea-water between the several external scales or flakes, of the fhell. Inftead of preparing oyfter fhells for medical ufe by calcination, Mr Homberg recommends them to be powdered in a mortar. * OYSTERWENCH, n. S. [oyster and wench, OYSTERWOMAN. or woman.] A woman whofe bufinefs is to fell oyfters. Proverbially, a low woman. Off goes his bonnet to an offter wench. Shak. The oyflerwomen lock'd their fifh up, And trudg'd away to cry no bishop. Hudibras. (1.) * OZÆNA. n, f. [2tawa, from ota; ozene, Fr. An ulcer in the infide of the noftrils that gives an ill french, Quincy. (2.) OZENA is a malignant ulcer of the nofe, diftinguished by its fator, and often accompanied OZAMA, a river of Hifpaniola, which is na vigable for 30 miles above its mouth; is in fome places 24 feet deep, and runs into the fea below: St Domingo; in Lon. 72. 33. W. of Paris. Lat. 18. 18. N. OZANAM, James, an eminent French mathematician, born at Boligneux in Breffe, in 1640, of a wealthy family. His father defigned him for the church; but his mathematical genius fhowed itself fo early, that he made that fudy his profeffion. He taught that fcience at Lyons. In 1702 he was admitted into the Royal Academy of Sciences; and died of an apoplexy in 1717. He was of a mild and ferene temper, of fingular generofity, and of a cheerful difpofition. His works are very numerous, and have met with approbation. The principal are, 1. Practical geometry, 12mo. 2. A mathematical dictionary. A courfe of mathematics, 5 vols. 8vo. 4 Mathematical and phi lofophical recreations, the most complete edition of which is that of 1724, in 4 vols. 8vo. 5. An easy method of furveying. 6. New elements of algebra, a work much commended by M. Leib. nitz. 7. Theoretical and practical perspective, &c. OZAR, a town of Perfia, in Segeftan. OZAS, a town of France, in the dep. of the Po, and ci-devant principality of Piedmont; 5 miles W. of Carmignola, and 10 S. of Turin. OZELL, John, a correct translator of many works from different languages, was educated in Chrift's Hofpital, and poffeffed a competent fortune, arifing from places, in the city of London. He died in 1743 OZEMAN, a town of Turkey, in Natolia. OZERNIA, two forts of Ruffia, in Upha, on the Ural; the one 49 miles W. the other 64 E. of Orenburg. OZERNOVSKOJ, a cape of Ruffia, on the E. coaft of Kamtfchatka, 32 miles NE. of Ukinskoi. OZIAS, the fon of Micha, of the tribe of Simeon, one of the governors of Bethulia, when it was besieged by Holofernes. See HOLOFERNES. OZIGINA, an oftrog, or village of Ruffia, in Kamtfchatka, on the Indigirda. Lon, 160. 8. E. Ferro. Lat. 69. 39. N., OZINOVSKOI, a town of Ruffia, in Perm. OZLEWORTH, a town of England, in Glou ceftershire, about 18 miles from Gloucefter. (1.) OZMA, a river of European Turkey, which runs into the Danube, 4 miles W. of Nicopoli. (2.) OzMA, a town of Turkey, on the above river, 28 miles S. of Nicopoli. OZOHOWK, a town of Poland, in Volhynia. OZOLÆA, a country in the E, part of tolia. This tract of country lay at the N. of the bay of Corinth, and extended about 12 miles. OZOLÆ, or the ancient inhabitants of OzoOZOLI, SLEA. Their name was derived from ov," to imell bad," and by others from olec, a branch or fprout." OZUNICZE, a town of Lithuania, in Wilna, 30 miles SE. of Breslaw. OZWIEZIN, a town of Poland, on the Weitchel; defended on one side by a great morass, and on the other by a castle, with wooden walls; 34 m. W. of Cracow, Lon. 19. 10. E. Lat. 50. 10. N. * (1.) P (1.) Is a labial confonant, formed by a flight compreffion of the anterior part of the lips; as, pull, pelt. It is confounded by the German and Welsh with 6; it has an uniform found; it is fometimes mute before t; as, accompt, receipt; but the mutep is in modern orthography commonly omitted. (1.) P is ufed, 1. as a letter; 2. as an abbreviation; 3. it was anciently used as a numeral. I. As a LETTER, P is the 15th of the alphabet, and the Irth confonant. The found is formed by expreffing the breath fomewhat more fuddenly than in forming the found of b; in other refpects these two founds are pretty much alike. When pftands before or f, its found is loft; as in the words pfalms, pfychology, ptolemaic, ptifan, &c. When placed before, they both together have the found of f; as in philofophy, phyfic, &c. P and B are fo like each other, that in ancient infcriptions, and old gloffaries, thefe two letters have often been confounded. Several nations ftill pronounce one for the other, the Welch and Germans particularly, who fay, ponum vinum for bonum vinum. Among the Latins, as often as an s followed, the b was changed into a p, as feribo, feripfi. St Jerome obferves, on Daniel, that the Hebrews had no P; but that the pb ferved them instead thereof; adding that there is but one word in the whole Bible read with a P. viz. apadno. II. As an ABBREVIATION, P ftands for Publius, Pondo, &c. P. A. DIG. for Patricia Dignitas; P. C. for Patres Conferipti; P. F. for Publii Filius; P. P. for Propoft tum, or Propofitum publice; P. R. for Populus Romanus; P. R. S. for Prætoris fententia; P. R. S. P. for Prafes provincia. P. M. among aftronomers, is frequently used for poft meridiem, or afternoon; and fometimes for poft mane, after the morning, i. e. after midnight. On the French coins, P denotes thofe that were ftruck at Dijon. In the Italian mufic, P ftands for piano, or softly; and P. P. P. for pianiffimo, or very foftly. Among phyficians, P ftands for pugil, or the 8th part of an handful; P. E. partes aquales, or equal parts of the ingredients; P. P. fignifies pulvis patrum, or Jefuit's bark in powder; and ppt. preparatus, or prepared, III. As a NUMERAL, P was used among the ancients to fignify the fame with the G, viz. 100; though Baronius thinks it rather stood for feven. When a dash was added a-top of F, it stood for 400,000. The Greek fignified 80. (1, 2.) PA, two towns of of China of the fecond rank: 1. In Pe-tche-li; 50 miles S. of Peking: 2. In Se-tchuen, 695 miles S. of Peking. Lon. 124. 10. E. of Ferro. Lat. 31. 51. N. (3.) PA, a town of Thibet, 450 m. E. of Laffa. (4.) PA DEL Zocco, a cape of Carniola." PAA, a town of the ifle of Ceram, in the Eaft Indian Ocean, and capital of a district so named, abounding in fago. PAATOCK, a river of Scotland, in Inverness fhire, which runs from Loch-Paatock into LochLaggen. PAAW, Peter, a Dutch phyfician, born at Amfterdam, in 1564. He became eminent at Leyden, where he wrote feveral Latin treatises on medicine, and died in 1716. PABAY, an island of Scotland, one of the He brides, 8 miles from Barray; about 1 mile long, and broad; inhabited by 3 families. PABBA, an island of Scotland, two miles from that of Sky, about a mile long, and three quarters of a mile broad. It has relics of an ancient chapel, exhibits figns of iron ore, and has rocks of limeftone of the nature of marble, with beautiful petrefactions of fish and fhells. PABBAY, an island of Scotland in Invernefsfhire, included in the parish of Harris. (See HARRIS, N° 3.) It has a conical appearance, and rifes to a peak confiderably higher than the adjacent isles. It is nearly circular, and its diameter is about 2 miles. It is very fertile except on the NW. where it is exposed to the spray from the Atlantic, and of confequence covered with fand; but on the SW. it is fheltered by BERNERAY. It is nine miles in circumference. Lon. 4. 7. W. of Edinburgh. Lat. 57. 55. N. PABIANICE, a town of Poland, in Siradia; 32 miles ENE. of Siradia. PABNEIKIRCHEN, a town of Austria. PABOON, an island of Africa, in the Gambia; 9 miles long, belonging to the kingdom of Yani. *PABULAR. adj. [pabulum, Lat.] Affording aliment or provender. * PABULATION. n. f. [pabulum, Lat.] The act of feeding or procuring provender. *PABULOUS. adj. [ pabulum, Lat.] Alimental; affording aliment.-We doubt the air is the pabulous fupply of fire, much lefs that flame is properly air kindled. Brown's Vulgar Errors. (r.) * PABULUM. [Lat.] Food; support. A technical word. (2.) PABULUM, among natural philosophers, is the fame with FUEL. PACA. See CAVIA, N° VII. 1, 2. PACAJES, a diftrict of Buenos Ayres, in the prov. of La Paz, containing fome rich filver mines. The air is mild, fometimes cold; the pastures are good, and cattle its chief commerce. PACAUDIERE, a town of France, in the department of the Rhone and Loire; 12 miles W. of Charlieu, and 12 NW. of Roannne. (1.) PACE, Richard, a learned Englishman, born about 1482. Henry VIII. made him secretary of ftate, and he was admitted prebendary of York, archdeacon of Dorset, and dean of St Paul's, &c. during his abfence on foreign embaffies. Falling under the displeasure of Wolfey,' he was fo ill treated as to drive him mad, and, on his return, was thrown into the Tower for complaining to the king. After being confined two years, he was enlarged, refigned his deaneries, and died in retirement, at Stepney, in 1532, after having written feveral works. He was much esteemed by the learned men of his time, especially Sir Thomas More and Erasmus. To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow, Nor her winged speed, The beggar fings, ev'n when he fees the place Befet with thieves, and never mends his pace. Dryden. He mended pace upon the touch. Hudibras. Marcia could anfwer thee in fighs, keep pace With all thy woes. Addifon. -Hudibras applied his fpur to one fide of his horfe, as not doubting but the other would keep pace with it. Addifon. 4. Step; gradation of bufinefs. A gallicifm.-The firft pace neceffary for his majefty to make, is to fall into confidence with Spain. Temple. 5. A measure of five feet. -The quantity fuppofed to be measured by the foot from the place where it is taken up to that where it is fet down. Measuring land by walking over it, they ftyled a double ftep; i. e. the space from the elevation of one foot to the fame foot fet down again, mediated by a ftep of the other foot a pace equal to five feet; rooo of which paces made a mile. Holder on Time.-The violence of tempefts never moves the fea above fix paces deep. Wilkin's Math. Magic. 6. A particular movement which horfes are taught, though fome have it naturally, made by lifting the legs on the fame fide together. They rode, but authors having not Determin'd whether pace or trot; That's to fay, whether tollutation, As they do term it, or fuccuffation. Hudibras. (3.) A PACE is a measure taken from the space between the two feet of a man in walking; ufually reckoned 24 feet, and in fome men a yard or 3 feet. The geometrical pace is 5 feet; and 60,000 fuch paces make one degree on the equator. (4.) PACE, in the manege, is of three kinds, viz. walk, trot, and gallop; to which may be added amble, because fome horfes have it naturally. (1.) * To PACE. v. a. [from the noun.] 1. To measure by fteps. Where is the horse that doth untread again His tedious measures with th' unbated fire That he did pace them firft? Shak. Mer. of Ven. 2. To direct to go; to regulate in motion. If you can, pace your wisdom In that good path that I would with it go. Shak. Upon the giddy footing of the hatches, The nymph, obedient to divine command, 2. To move. Pope. Remember well, with speed fo pace Shak. Winter's Tale 3. [Ufed of horfes.] To move by raifing the lega on the fame fide together. *PACED. adj. [from pace.] Having a particular gait. Revenge is fure, though sometimes flowly paced. Dryden. (1.) PACEM, a kingdom of India, in the island of Sumatra; dependent on Acheen. (2.) PACEM, the capital of the above kingdom, contains about 500 families, and lies 120 miles SE. of Acheen. Lon. 97. 15. E. Lat. 5. o. N. *PACER. n. f. [from pace.] He that paces. PACHA. n. f. a title of honour and command in the Eaft, nearly fynonimous with bashaw. This word is omitted in all English dictonaries. - See BASHAW, 2. PACHACAMAC, or a valley of Peru, in South (1.) PACHAMAC, America, ten miles S. of Lima, celebrated for its pleafantnefs and fertility, but more on account of a magnificent temple built by the Incas of Peru, to the honour of their god. When the Spaniards conquered Peru, they they found immenfe riches therein. (2.) PACHAMAC, a town of the above valley. (3.) PACHAMAC, in mythology, the name given by the Peruvians to the Supreme God; to whom the temple in the above valley was dedicated, and after whom the valley and town were named. PACHAMACLI, a town of Turkey in Romania, 40 miles S. of Philippopoli. PACHETE, a fort of Indoftan, in Bengal. PACHI, a town of Thibet, 70 m. SE. of Hami. PACHIUTLA, a town of Mexico, in Tlascala. PACHODECARHOMBIS, in the old fyftem of mineralogy, a genus of foffils, of the clafs of felenita. The word is derived from the Greek axos, thick, Sexa, ten, and goμbos, a rhombus, and expreffes a thick rhomboidal body composed of ten planes. The characters are, that the felenite of it confift of ten planes; but, as the top and bottom in the leptodecarhombes are broader and larger planes than any of the reft, the great thickness of this genus, on the contrary, makes its four longer planes in all the bodies of it, meeting in an obtuse angle from its fides, its largeft planes. There are four fpecies. PACHSU, a fmall island in the Mediterranean, near the coast of Epirus. It lies S. of Corfu, and is included in the republic of the Seven Islands. PACHUCA, a town of Mexico, famous for its filver mines, of which Gemelli fays it has 1000 within fix leagues. One of them afforded above 40 millions of filver in 10 years. It lies 45 miles NNE. of Mexico. PACHYMERUS, George, a Greek hiftorian of the 14th century. He wrote a History of the East, which merits the more credit, from his knowledge of affairs and the fhare he had in the tranfactions he records. It commences with the year 1308. (1.) PACIFIC. adj. See PACIFICK. (2.) PACIFIC OCEAN, that vaft ocean which feparates Afia from America. It is called Pacific, from the moderate weather the firft mariners who failed in it met with between the tropics; and it was called South Sea, because the Spaniards croffed the ifthmus of Darien from N. to S. when they firft discovered it; though it is properly the Wef tern ocean with regard to America. * PACIFICATION. n.f. [pacification, Fr. from pacify.] 1. The act of making peace. He fent forthwith to the French king his chaplain, chufing him because he was a churchman, as beft forting with an embaffy of pacification. Bacon's Hen. VII. David, by an happy and feasonable pacification, was took off from acting that bloody tragedy. South. 2. The act of appeafing or pacifying.-A world was to be faved by a pacification of wrath. Hooker. * PACIFICATOR. n. f. [pacificateur, Fr. from pacify] Peace maker. He had in confideration the bearing the blessed person of a pacificator. Bacon's Hen. VII. * PACIFICATORY. adj. [from pacificator.] Tending to make peace. . *PACIFICK. adj [pacifique, French; pacificus, Lat.] Peace-making; mild; gentle; appeafing.God now in his gracious pacifick manner comes to treat with them. Hammond's Fund. An olive leaf he brings, pacifick fign! Milton. PACIFICUS, Maximus, a native of Afioli, born in 1400, who lived near a century. His Latin Poems have been often printed under the title of Hecatelegium, five G. Elegia. The venereal disease is fo accurately described in one of them, as to give reafon to believe, that it was known in Europe, previous to Columbus's discovery of America, in 1493; for Pacificus's work was published in 1489. *PACIFIER. n.f. [from pacify.] One who pa cifies. *To PACIFY. v. a. [pacifier, Fr. pacifico, Lat.] To appease; tó ftill refentment; to quiet an angry perfon; to compofe any defire.-He had withdrawn to pacify with fleep his over-watched eyes. Sidney.-Menelaus promised Ptolemy money, if he would pacify the king. 2 Mac. iv. 45.-The Moft High is not pacified for fin by the multitude of facrifices. Ecclus. xxxiv. 19.-He went on as far as York, to pacify and fettle those countries. Bacon. -O villain! to have wit at will upon all other occafions, and not one diverting fyllable now at a pinch to pacify our mistress. L'Eftrange. Nor William's power, nor Mary's charms, Could or repel, or pacify his arms. Prior. PACINISCO, a town of Naples, in Lavora. (1.) * PACK. ». f. (pack, Dutch.] 1. A large bundle of any thing tied up for carriage.-The imagery appears in figures: whereas in thoughts they lie but as in packs. Bacon. Had fly Ulyffes, at the fack Of Troy, brought thee his pedlar's pack. Cleavel. 2. A burden; a load. I rather chofe, Hudibras. To cross my friend in his intended drift, Than, by concealing it, heap on your head A pack of forrows. Shak. Merch. of Ven. -But when they took notice how ftupid a beast it was, they loaded it with packs and burdens. L'Eftrange. 3. A due number of cards.— Women to cards may be compar'd, we play A round or two; when ufed, we throw away, Take a fresh pack. Granville. -It is wonderful to fee perfons of fenfe pafling away a dozen hours together in shuffling and dividing a pack of cards. Addison. 4. A number of hounds hunting together. Two ghofts join their packs to hunt her o'er the plain. The fury fires the park. Dryden. Dryden. The favage foul of game is up at once, The pack full-opening various. Thomf. Sum. 5. A number of people confederated in any bad defign or practice. There's a knot, a gang, a pack, a conspiracy, against me. Sbak. Mer. Wives.-Never fuch a pack of knaves and villains, as they who now governed in the parliament. Clarendon-Bickerftaff is more a man of honour, than to be an accomplice with a pack of rascals. Swift. 6. Any great number, as to quantity and pressure: as, a pack or world of troubles. Ainsworth. (2.) PACK, in commerce. A pack of wool is 17 ftone and 2 pounds, or a horfe's load. (1.) To PACK. v. a. (packen, Dutch.] 1. To bind up for carriage.— A poor merchant driv'n on unknown land, That had by chance pack'd up his choiceft treafure Otway. In one dear cafket. Refolv'd for fea, the flaves thy baggage pack, Each faddled with his burden on his back. Dryd. What we looked upon as brains, were an heap of ftrange materials, packed up with wonderful art in the skull. Addifon 2. To fend in a hurry.— He cannot live, I hope, and must not die, Till George be pack'à with poft-horse up to heav'n. Shak. 3. To fort the cards fo as that the game fhall be iniquitoufly fecured. It is applied to any iniquitous procurement of collufion.Enos has Packt cards with Cæfar, and false play'd. Shak. There be that can pack cards and yet cannot play well. Bacon's Effays. The judge fhall jobb, the bishop bite the town, And mighty dukes pack cards for half a crown. Pope. 4. To unite picked persons in some bad design. When they have pack'd a parliament, We'll once more try th' expedient. Hudibras. Brutes, called men, in full cry, pack'd by the court or country, run down in the house of commons, a deferted horned beast of the court. Wycherley. So many greater fools than they, Will pack a crowded audience the third day. Southern. A pack'd assembly of Italian bishops, not a free convention of fathers from all quarters. Atterbury. (2.) To PACK. v. n. 1. To tie up goods.He at his rife, at his full ftop Tufer. Packs and fhuts up her gaudy shop. Cleaveland, 2. To go off in a hurry; to remove in hafte.New farmer thinketh each hour a day, Until the old farmer be packing away. Rogues, hence, avaunt! Seek shelter, pack. Shak. M. W. of Windfor -The wind no fooner came good, but away pack the gallies. Careau-A thief kindled his torch at Jupiter's altar, and then robbed the temple: as be was packing away with his facrilegious burden, a voice pursued him. L'Estrange.—If they had been |