noun.
A road-horse; a horse for riding on the road, as distinguished from a hunter or a work-horse, etc.; a roadster.
To travel on foot; tramp slowly or wearily along; trudge or jog along.
To travel on foot over or along; proceed on foot through; journey slowly, steadily, or wearily along.
To tread or beat down; make smooth and level by treading: as, to pad a path.
noun.
[pad, verb] A dull sound, as of footsteps.
To stuff or furnish with a pad or padding: often with out.
To expand by the insertion of extraneous or needless matter, or the use of unnecessary words: as, to pad an article in a newspaper; to pad out a page in a book.
In calico-printing, to impregnate (the cotton cloth to be printed) with a mordant. It is done in a machine called a padding-machine (which see).
To glue the edges of (sheets of paper) together, so as to form a pad.
In mech., to puncture with numerous fine holes, as the end of a pipe, or the rose on the end of a nozle.
noun.
A path; a footpath; a road.
noun.
A pannier; a basket.
To be a footpad, or highway robber; frequent roads or highways in order to rob.
To move with the soft thud of a bare foot striking the ground.
In leather-making, to apply a heavy coating of solution to.
In India, to pack on an elephant's pad.
noun.
A robber; a footpad.
noun.
A soft cushion, or something of the nature of a cushion, or a stuffed part, as of a garment, a saddle, etc., used to fill up a hollow, to relieve pressure, or as a protection.
noun.
Specifically— In cricket, a wadded guard worn to protect the leg by a batsman or wicket-keeper.
noun.
In embroidery, a small qnantity of fibrous material, such as raw cotton or silk, used for raising parts of a pattern, the stitch covering it closely.
noun.
One of the large, fleshy, thick-skinned protuberances of the sole of the foot of various quadrupeds, as the dog or fox; hence, specifically, the foot of a fox.
noun.
One of the tylari of a bird's foot; one of the cushion-like enlargements on the under side of a bird's toes. Compare heel-pad and pterna.
noun.
In anatomy, the splenium of the corpus callosum. See splenium.