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Webster 1913 Edition

Pace

Pace

(pās)
,
Verb.
I.
[
imp. & p. p.
Paced
(pāst)
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Pacing
(pā′sĭng)
.]
1.
To go; to walk; specifically, to move with regular or measured steps.
“I paced on slowly.”
Pope.
“With speed so pace.”
Shak.
2.
To proceed; to pass on.
[Obs.]
Or [ere] that I further in this tale
pace
.
Chaucer.
3.
To move quickly by lifting the legs on the same side together, as a horse; to amble with rapidity; to rack.
4.
To pass away; to die.
[Obs.]
Chaucer.

Pace

,
Verb.
T.
1.
To walk over with measured tread; to move slowly over or upon;
as, the guard
paces
his round
.
“Pacing light the velvet plain.”
T. Warton.
3.
To develop, guide, or control the pace or paces of; to teach the pace; to break in.
If you can,
pace
your wisdom
In that good path that I would wish it go.
Shak
To pace the web
(Weaving)
,
to wind up the cloth on the beam, periodically, as it is woven, in a loom.

Webster 1828 Edition

Pace

PACE

,
Noun.
[L., to open, Gr., to tread. See Pass.]
1.
A step.
2.
The space between the two feet in walking, estimated at two feet and a half. But the geometrical pace is five feet, or the whole space passed over by the same foot from one step to another. Sixty thousand such paces make one degree on the equator.
3.
Manner of walking; a gait; as a languishing pace; a heavy pace; a quick or slow pace.
4.
Step; gradation in business. [Little used.]
5.
A mode of stepping among horses, in which the legs on the same side are lifted together. In a general sense, the word may be applied to any other mode of stepping.
6.
Degree of celerity. Let him mend his pace.
To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow, creeps in this petty pace from day to day--
To keep or hold pace, to keep up; to go or move as fast as something else.

PACE

,
Verb.
I.
1.
To go; to walk; to move.
2.
To go, move or walk slowly.
3.
To move by lifting the legs on the same side together, as a horse.

PACE

,
Verb.
T.
1.
To measure by steps; as, to pace a piece of ground.
2.
To regulate in motion.
If you ca, pace your wisdom in that good path that I would wish it go--

Definition 2024

pače

pače

See also: pace, Pace, PACE, and pacé

Serbo-Croatian

Adverb

pàče ‎(Cyrillic spelling па̀че)

  1. (archaic) moreover, furthermore
  2. (archaic) even

Etymology 2

Related to pȁtka ‎(“duck”).

Noun

pȁče n ‎(Cyrillic spelling па̏че)

  1. duckling
Declension

This word has no plural, but the collective noun pȁčād is used instead.

Etymology

Related to pȁk.

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