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Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: ORC-PAI |
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PAD . (1) Probably from the same root as " pod," the husk or seed-covering in certain plants,.a term
zoology , it is particularly used of the fleshy elastic protuberances on the sole of the foot of many animals such as the cat and dog, the camel, &c.; and of the similar cushion beneath the toes of a bird's foot or of the tarsal cushion of an insect
special
for the socket 'of a brace or for the handle of such tools as a key-hole saw. (2) The canting word " pad," now surviving in such words as " footpad," a highway
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