Definition of pack

• n. - A pact.
• n. - A bundle made up and prepared to be carried; especially, a bundle to be carried on the back; a load for an animal; a bale, as of goods.
• n. - A number or quantity equal to the contents of a pack; hence, a multitude; a burden.
• n. - A number or quantity of connected or similar things
• n. - A full set of playing cards; also, the assortment used in a particular game; as, a euchre pack.
• n. - A number of hounds or dogs, hunting or kept together.
• n. - A number of persons associated or leagued in a bad design or practice; a gang; as, a pack of thieves or knaves.
• n. - A shook of cask staves.
• n. - A bundle of sheet-iron plates for rolling simultaneously.
• n. - A large area of floating pieces of ice driven together more or less closely.
• n. - An envelope, or wrapping, of sheets used in hydropathic practice, called dry pack, wet pack, cold pack, etc., according to the method of treatment.
• n. - A loose, lewd, or worthless person. See Baggage.
• n. - To make a pack of; to arrange closely and securely in a pack; hence, to place and arrange compactly as in a pack; to press into close order or narrow compass; as to pack goods in a box; to pack fish.
• n. - To fill in the manner of a pack, that is, compactly and securely, as for transportation; hence, to fill closely or to repletion; to stow away within; to cause to be full; to crowd into; as, to pack a trunk; the play, or the audience, packs the theater.
• n. - To sort and arrange (the cards) in a pack so as to secure the game unfairly.
• n. - Hence: To bring together or make up unfairly and fraudulently, in order to secure a certain result; as, to pack a jury or a causes.
• n. - To contrive unfairly or fraudulently; to plot.
• n. - To load with a pack; hence, to load; to encumber; as, to pack a horse.
• n. - To cause to go; to send away with baggage or belongings; esp., to send away peremptorily or suddenly; -- sometimes with off; as, to pack a boy off to school.
• n. - To transport in a pack, or in the manner of a pack (i. e., on the backs of men or beasts).
• n. - To envelop in a wet or dry sheet, within numerous coverings. See Pack, n., 5.
• n. - To render impervious, as by filling or surrounding with suitable material, or to fit or adjust so as to move without giving passage to air, water, or steam; as, to pack a joint; to pack the piston of a steam engine.
• v. i. - To make up packs, bales, or bundles; to stow articles securely for transportation.
• v. i. - To admit of stowage, or of making up for transportation or storage; to become compressed or to settle together, so as to form a compact mass; as, the goods pack conveniently; wet snow packs well.
• v. i. - To gather in flocks or schools; as, the grouse or the perch begin to pack.
• v. i. - To depart in haste; -- generally with off or away.
• v. i. - To unite in bad measures; to confederate for ill purposes; to join in collusion.