Index of English words, starting with "pa"

(1) - Pabulum (n.) The means of nutriment to animals or plants; food; nourishment; hence, that which feeds or sustains, as fuel for a fire; that upon which the mind or soul is nourished; as, intellectual pabulum.

(1) - Pace (v. t.) To develop, guide, or control the pace or paces of; to teach the pace; to break in.
(2) - Pace (v. t.) To measure by steps or paces; as, to pace a piece of ground.
(3) - Pace (v. t.) To walk over with measured tread; to move slowly over or upon; as, the guard paces his round.
(4) - Pace (v. i.) To pass away; to die.
(5) - Pace (v. i.) To move quickly by lifting the legs on the same side together, as a horse; to amble with rapidity; to rack.
(6) - Pace (v. i.) To proceed; to pass on.
(7) - Pace (v. i.) To go; to walk; specifically, to move with regular or measured steps.
(8) - Pace (n.) A device in a loom, to maintain tension on the warp in pacing the web.
(9) - Pace (n.) 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.
(10) - Pace (n.) Any single movement, step, or procedure.
(11) - Pace (n.) Specifically, a kind of fast amble; a rack.
(12) - Pace (n.) A slow gait; a footpace.
(13) - Pace (n.) 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.
(14) - Pace (n.) 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.
(15) - Pace (n.) A single movement from one foot to the other in walking; a step.

(1) - Paced (a.) Having, or trained in, [such] a pace or gait; trained; -- used in composition; as, slow-paced; a thorough-paced villain.
(2) - Paced (imp. & p. p.) of Pace