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Having or trained in such a pace or gait trained used in composition as slow paced a thorough paced villain...
Pace
Pace, a measure of length containing two feet and a half. The geometrical pace is five feet long; the common pace is the length of a step, the geometrical is the length of two steps, or the whole space passed over by the same foot from one step to another....
Leuca
Leuca, a measure of land, the extent of which is not precisely known: some say 1,500 paces. Ingulphus, p. 910, says 2,000 paces. In Dugd. Mon., tom. i. p. 313,it is 480 perches. Spelman says a mile....
change of pace
a baseball pitch thrown with little velocity when the batter is expecting a fastball called also change up...
change up
same as change of pace...
Cinque pace
A lively dance called also galliard the steps of which were regulated by the number five...
Footpace
A walking pace or step...
Funereal
Suiting a funeral pertaining to burial solemn as at a funereal pace...
Giddy paced
Moving irregularly flighty fickle...
Gravigrade
Slow paced...
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