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Pack

noun

1.

A large indefinite number. Synonyms: battalion, large number, multitude, plurality. "A multitude of TV antennas" , "A plurality of religions"

2.

A complete collection of similar things.

3.

A convenient package or parcel (as of cigarettes or film).

4.

An association of criminals. Synonyms: gang, mob, ring. "A pack of thieves"

5.

An exclusive circle of people with a common purpose. Synonyms: camp, clique, coterie, ingroup, inner circle.

6.

A group of hunting animals.

7.

A cream that cleanses and tones the skin. Synonym: face pack.

8.

A sheet or blanket (either dry or wet) to wrap around the body for its therapeutic effect.

9.

A bundle (especially one carried on the back).

verb

(past & past part. packed; pres. part. packing)

1.

Arrange in a container. Antonym: unpack.

2.

Fill to capacity. "The murder trial packed the court house"

3.

Compress into a wad. Synonyms: bundle, compact, wad.

4.

Carry, as on one's back.

5.

Set up a committee or legislative body with one's own supporters so as to influence the outcome.

6.

Have with oneself; have on one's person. Synonyms: carry, take. "I always carry money" , "She packs a gun when she goes into the mountains"

7.

Press tightly together or cram. Synonyms: jam, mob, pile, throng.

8.

Hike with a backpack. Synonym: backpack.

9.

Press down tightly. Synonyms: tamp, tamp down.

10.

Seal with packing.

11.

Have the property of being packable or of compacting easily. Synonym: compact. "Such odd-shaped items do not pack well"

12.

Load with a pack. Synonym: load down.

13.

Treat the body or any part of it by wrapping it, as with blankets or sheets, and applying compresses to it, or stuffing it to provide cover, containment, or therapy, or to absorb blood. "You had better pack your swollen ankle with ice"

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— The Bobbsey Twins at School • Laura Lee Hope

... by transposing the letters of my name, written in Latin. Out of Joannes Keplerus came Serpens in Akuleo (a serpent in his sting); but not being satisfied with the meaning of these words, and being unable to make another, I trusted the thing to chance, and taking out of a pack of playing cards as many as there were letters in the name, I wrote one upon each, and then began to shuffle them, and at each shuffle to read them in the order they came, to see if any meaning came of ...

— The Martyrs of Science, or, The lives of Galileo, Tycho Brahe, and Kepler • David Brewster

... understand. First you worked yourself to the bone for your father. You haven't the slightest notion of what life is, and now you want to be that bookbinder's pack horse. I don't see how people can be so vulgar and heartless as to make capital out of another human being in that way! If that's all you're looking forward ...

— The Dramatic Works of Gerhart Hauptmann - Volume II • Gerhart Hauptmann

... were beyond control by now, hounds unleashed upon the quarry of their hate. Out of her presence Morton and Douglas dragged him, the rest of the baying pack going after them. They dragged him, screeching still, across the ante-chamber to the head of the great stairs, and there they fell on him all together, and so wildly that they wounded one another in their fury to rend him into pieces. ...

— The Historical Nights' Entertainment • Rafael Sabatini

... are now well known. Mr. Cooper, at Ta-t'sien lu, notes that the people of Tibetan race "keep very large dogs, as large as Newfoundlands." And he mentions a pack of dogs of another breed, tan and black, "fine animals of the size of setters." The missionary M. Durand also, in a letter from the region in question, says, speaking of a large leopard: "Our brave watch-dogs had several times beaten him off gallantly, and ...

— The Travels of Marco Polo, Volume 2 • Marco Polo and Rustichello of Pisa

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