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1. A form of cereal for infants.
2. A diet that does not require chewing.
3. Worthless or oversimplified ideas.
4. The act of feeding, or providing food.
5. Food; fodder; pabulum.
6. The means of nutriment to animals or plants; food; nourishment.
7. Trite or simplistic writing, sentiments, etc.; pablum{3}.
8. (Zoöl.) A large burrowing South American rodent (Agouti paca syn. Cuniculus paca, formerly Cœlogenys paca), having blackish brown fur, with four parallel rows of white spots along its sides; the spotted cavy. It is closely allied to the agouti and the Guinea pig and is highly esteemed as food.
9. A single movement from one foot to the other in walking; a step.
10. 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.
11. 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. A slow gait; a footpace.
13. Specifically, a kind of fast amble; a rack.
14. Any single movement, step, or procedure.
15. (Arch.) 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.
16. (Weaving) A device in a loom, to maintain tension on the warp in pacing the web.
17. The rate of progress of any process or activity; as, the students ran at a rapid pace; the plants grew at a remarkable pace.
18. To go; to walk; specifically, to move with regular or measured steps.
19. To proceed; to pass on.
20. To move quickly by lifting the legs on the same side together, as a horse; to amble with rapidity; to rack.
21. To pass away; to die.
22. To walk over with measured tread; to move slowly over or upon; as, the guard paces his round.
23. To measure by steps or paces; as, to pace a piece of ground. Often used with out; as, to pace out the distance.
24. To develop, guide, or control the pace or paces of; to teach the pace; to break in.
25. a specialized bit of heart tissue that controls the heartbeat.
26. An implanted electronic device that takes over the function of the natural cardiac pacemaker{1}; -- used to assist people whose heartbeat is irregular.
27. A horse used to set the pace in racing.
28. A horse used to set the pace in racing.
29. A game, somewhat resembling backgammon, originating in India.
30. A game adopted from the Indian game, using disks, as of pasteboard, and dice; it is played on a cross-shaped board.
Paas egg .
See Easter egg, under Easter.