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Pace
Webster's Dictionary
or (1):
(v. i.) To move quickly by lifting the legs on the same side together, as a horse; to amble with rapidity; to rack.
(2):
(n.) A device in a loom, to maintain tension on the warp in pacing the web.
(3):
(v. t.) To develop, guide, or control the pace or paces of; to teach the pace; to break in.
(4):
(v. t.) To measure by steps or paces; as, to pace a piece of ground.
(5):
(v. t.) To walk over with measured tread; to move slowly over or upon; as, the guard paces his round.
(6):
(v. i.) To pass away; to die.
(7):
(n.) Specifically, a kind of fast amble; a rack.
(8):
(v. i.) To proceed; to pass on.
(9):
(v. i.) To go; to walk; specifically, to move with regular or measured steps.
(10):
(n.) A slow gait; a footpace.
(11):
(n.) 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.
(12):
(n.) 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.
(13):
(n.) Any single movement, step, or procedure.
(14):
(n.) A single movement from one foot to the other in walking; a step.
(15):
(n.) 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.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Pace'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/p/pace.html. 1828.
