Pack \Pack\, n.

1. (Med.) In hydropathic practice, a wrapping of blankets or sheets called dry pack, wet pack, cold pack, etc., according to the condition of the blankets or sheets used, put about a patient to give him treatment; also, the fact or condition of being so treated.

2. (Rugby Football) The forwards who compose one half of the scrummage; also, the scrummage.

Pack and prime road or way, a pack road or bridle way.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Pack \Pack\, v. t. To cover, envelop, or protect tightly with something; specif. (Hydropathy), to envelop in a wet or dry sheet, within numerous coverings.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Pack \Pack\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Packed; p. pr. & vb. n. Packing.]

[Akin to D. pakken, G. packen, Dan. pakke, Sw. packa, Icel. pakka. See Pack, n.]

1. 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.

Strange materials packed up with wonderful art. --Addison.

Where . . . the bones Of all my buried ancestors are packed. --Shak.

2. 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.

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

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Pack \Pack\, n. [Akin to D. pak, G. pack, Dan. pakke, Sw. packa, Icel. pakki, Gael. & Ir. pac, Arm. pak. Cf. Packet.]

1. 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. --Piers Plowman.

2. [Cf. Peck, n.]

A number or quantity equal to the contents of a pack; hence, a multitude; a burden. ``A pack of sorrows.'' ``A pack of blessings.'' --Shak.

Note: ``In England, by a pack of meal is meant 280 lbs.; of wool, 240 lbs.'' --McElrath.

3. A number or quantity of connected or similar things; as:
   (a) A full set of playing cards; also, the assortment used in a particular game; as, a euchre pack.
   (b) A number of hounds or dogs, hunting or kept together.
   (c) A number of persons associated or leagued in a bad design or practice; a gang; as, a pack of thieves or knaves.
   (d) A shook of cask staves.
   (e) A bundle of sheet-iron plates for rolling simultaneously.

4. A large area of floating pieces of ice driven together more or less closely. --Kane.

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

6. [Prob. the same word; but cf. AS. p?can to deceive.]

A loose, lewd, or worthless person. See Baggage. [Obs.]

--Skelton.

Pack animal, an animal, as a horse, mule, etc., employed in carrying packs.

Pack cloth, a coarse cloth, often duck, used in covering packs or bales.

Pack horse. See Pack animal (above).

Pack ice. See def. 4, above.

Pack moth (Zo["o]l.), a small moth (Anacampsis sarcitella) which, in the larval state, is very destructive to wool and woolen fabrics.

Pack needle, a needle for sewing with pack thread. --Piers Plowman.

Pack saddle, a saddle made for supporting the load on a pack animal. --Shak.

Pack staff, a staff for supporting a pack; a peddler's staff.

Pack thread, strong thread or small twine used for tying packs or parcels.

Pack train (Mil.), a troop of pack animals.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Pack \Pack\, n. [Cf. Pact.]

A pact. [Obs.]

--Daniel.

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Pack \Pack\, v. i.

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. [Eng.]

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

Poor Stella must pack off to town --Swift.

You shall pack, And never more darken my doors again. --Tennyson.

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

``Go pack with him.'' --Shak.

To send packing, to drive away; to send off roughly or in disgrace; to dismiss unceremoniously. ``The parliament . . . presently sent him packing.'' --South.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)