Pab"u*lous (?), a. [L. pabulosus.] Affording pabulum, or food;
alimental. [R.] Sir T. Browne.
Pab"u*lum (?), n. [L., akin to pascere to pasture. See Pastor.] 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.
Pac (?), n. A kind of moccasin, having the edges of the sole turned up
and sewed to the upper. Knight.
Pa"ca (?), n. [Pg., from the native name.] (Zoˆl.) A small South
American rodent (Cúlogenys paca), having blackish brown fur, with four
parallel rows of white spots along its sides; the spotted cavy. It is
nearly allied to the agouti and the Guinea pig.
Pa"ca*ble (?), a. [L. pacare to pacify.] Placable. [R.] Coleridge.
Pa*cane" (?), n. (Bot.) A species of hickory. See Pecan.
Pa"cate (?), a. [L. pacatus, p. p. of pacare to pacify, fr. pax, pacis,
peace. See Pay to requite, Peace.] Appeased; pacified; tranquil. [R.]
Pa"ca*ted (?), a. Pacified; pacate.
Pa*ca"tion (?), n. [L. pacatio.] The act of pacifying; a peacemaking.
Coleridge.
Pace (?), n. [OE. pas, F. pas, from L. passus a step, pace, orig., a
stretching out of the feet in walking; cf. pandere, passum, to spread,
stretch; perh. akin to E. patent. Cf. Pas, Pass.] 1. A single movement
from one foot to the other in walking; a step.
2. 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. "The heigh of sixty pace ."
Chaucer.
Ordinarily the pace is estimated at two and one half linear feet; but
in measuring distances be stepping, the pace is extended to three feet
(one yard) or to three and three tenths feet (one fifth of a rod). The
regulation marching pace in the English and United States armies is
thirty inches for quick time, and thirty-six inches for double time.
The Roman pace (passus) was from the heel of one foot to the heel of
the same foot when it next touched the ground, five Roman feet.
3. 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. Chaucer.
To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow, Creeps in this petty pace
from day to day.
Shak.
In the military schools of riding a variety of paces are taught.
Walsh.