| Pace |
A single movement from one foot to the other in walking; a step. |
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| Pace |
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. |
n. |
| Pace |
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. |
n. |
| Pace |
A slow gait; a footpace. |
n. |
| Pace |
Specifically, a kind of fast amble; a rack. |
n. |
| Pace |
Any single movement, step, or procedure. |
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| Pace |
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. |
n. |
| Pace |
A device in a loom, to maintain tension on the warp in pacing the web. |
n. |
| Pace |
To go; to walk; specifically, to move with regular or measured steps. |
v. i. |
| Pace |
To proceed; to pass on. |
v. i. |
| Pace |
To move quickly by lifting the legs on the same side together, as a horse; to amble with rapidity; to rack. |
v. i. |
| Pace |
To pass away; to die. |
v. i. |
| Pace |
To walk over with measured tread; to move slowly over or upon; as, the guard paces his round. |
v. t. |
| Pace |
To measure by steps or paces; as, to pace a piece of ground. |
v. t. |
| Pace |
To develop, guide, or control the pace or paces of; to teach the pace; to break in. |
v. t. |
| Cinque |
Five; the number five in dice or cards. |
n. |
| Cinque Ports |
Five English ports, to which peculiar privileges were anciently accorded; -- viz., Hastings, Romney, Hythe, Dover, and Sandwich; afterwards increased by the addition of Winchelsea, Rye, and some minor places. |
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| Cinque-spotted |
Five-spotted. |
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