| • | A pact. |
| • | 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. |
| • | A number or quantity equal to the contents of a pack; hence, a multitude; a burden. |
| • | A number or quantity of connected or similar things |
| • | A full set of playing cards; also, the assortment used in a particular game; as, a euchre pack. |
| • | A number of hounds or dogs, hunting or kept together. |
| • | A number of persons associated or leagued in a bad design or practice; a gang; as, a pack of thieves or knaves. |
| • | A shook of cask staves. |
| • | A bundle of sheet-iron plates for rolling simultaneously. |
| • | A large area of floating pieces of ice driven together more or less closely. |
| • | An envelope, or wrapping, of sheets used in hydropathic practice, called dry pack, wet pack, cold pack, etc., according to the method of treatment. |
| • | A loose, lewd, or worthless person. See Baggage. |
| • | 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. |
| • | 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. |
| • | To sort and arrange (the cards) in a pack so as to secure the game unfairly. |
| • | Hence: To bring together or make up unfairly and fraudulently, in order to secure a certain result; as, to pack a jury or a causes. |
| • | To contrive unfairly or fraudulently; to plot. |
| • | To load with a pack; hence, to load; to encumber; as, to pack a horse. |
| • | To cause to go; to send away with baggage or belongings; esp., to send away peremptorily or suddenly; -- sometimes with off; as, to pack a boy off to school. |
| • | To transport in a pack, or in the manner of a pack (i. e., on the backs of men or beasts). |
| • | To envelop in a wet or dry sheet, within numerous coverings. See Pack, n., 5. |
| • | To render impervious, as by filling or surrounding with suitable material, or to fit or adjust so as to move without giving passage to air, water, or steam; as, to pack a joint; to pack the piston of a steam engine. |
| • | To make up packs, bales, or bundles; to stow articles securely for transportation. |
| • | 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. |
| • | To gather in flocks or schools; as, the grouse or the perch begin to pack. |
| • | To depart in haste; -- generally with off or away. |
| • | To unite in bad measures; to confederate for ill purposes; to join in collusion. |
