Pace

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun A slow gait; a footpace.

II. Pace ·noun Any single movement, step, or procedure.

III. Pace ·noun Specifically, a kind of fast amble; a rack.

IV. Pace ·vi To pass away; to Die.

V. Pace ·vi To Proceed; to pass on.

VI. Pace ·vt To measure by steps or paces; as, to pace a piece of ground.

VII. Pace ·noun A single movement from one foot to the other in walking; a step.

VIII. Pace ·noun A device in a loom, to maintain tension on the warp in pacing the web.

IX. Pace ·vt To develop, guide, or control the pace or paces of; to teach the pace; to break in.

X. Pace ·vt To walk over with measured tread; to move slowly over or upon; as, the guard paces his round.

XI. Pace ·vi To Go; to Walk; specifically, to move with regular or measured steps.

XII. Pace ·noun 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.

XIII. Pace ·vi To move quickly by lifting the legs on the same side together, as a horse; to amble with rapidity; to Rack.

XIV. Pace ·noun 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.

XV. Pace ·noun 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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