Pace , v. 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.
2. To measure by
steps or paces; as, to pace a
piece of ground.
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.
Pace (?), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Paced (?); p. pr. & vb.
n. Pacing (?).]
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 (?), n. [OE. pas, F. pas, from L.
passus a step, pace, orig., a stretching out of the feet in walking; cf. pandere, passum, to spread, stretch; perh. akin to E. patent. Cf. Pas, Pass.]
1. A single movement from one foot to the other in
walking; a step.
2. 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. "The heigh of
sixty pace ."
Chaucer.
&fist; Ordinarily the pace is estimated at two and one half linear feet; but in measuring distances be
stepping, the pace is extended to three feet (one yard) or to three and
three tenths feet (one fifth of
a rod). The regulation marching
pace in the English and United States armies is thirty inches for quick time, and thirty-six inches for double time. The Roman pace (passus) was from the heel
of one foot
to the heel
of the same
foot when it next touched the ground, five Roman feet.
3. 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. Chaucer.
To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,
Creeps in this petty
pace from day to day.
Shak. In the military schools of riding a variety of paces are taught.
Walsh. 4. A slow gait; a footpace. [Obs.] Chucer.
5. Specifically, a kind of fast amble; a
rack.
6. Any single movement, step, or procedure. [R.]
The first pace necessary for his majesty to make is to fall into
confidence with
Spain.
Sir W. Temple. 7. (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.
8. (Weaving) A device in a loom, to maintain tension on the warp in pacing the web.
Geometrical pace, the space from heel to heel
between the spot where one foot is set down and
that where the same foot
is again set down, loosely estimated at five feet, or
by some at four feet and
two fifths. See Roman pace in the Note under def. 2. [Obs.] -- To keep, or hold, pace with, to keep up with; to go as fast as.
"In intellect and attainments he kept pace with his age." Southey.
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