from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Pack \Pack\, v. i.
1. To make up packs, bales, or bundles; to stow articles
securely for transportation.
[1913 Webster]
2. 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.
[1913 Webster]
3. To gather in flocks or schools; as, the grouse or the
perch begin to pack. [Eng.]
[1913 Webster]
4. To depart in haste; -- generally with off or away.
[1913 Webster]
Poor Stella must pack off to town --Swift.
[1913 Webster]
You shall pack,
And never more darken my doors again. --Tennyson.
[1913 Webster]
5. To unite in bad measures; to confederate for ill purposes;
to join in collusion. [Obs.] "Go pack with him." --Shak.
[1913 Webster]
{To send packing}, to drive away; to send off roughly or in
disgrace; to dismiss unceremoniously. "The parliament . .
. presently sent him packing." --South.
[1913 Webster]