pack

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun A collection of items tied up or wrapped; a bundle.
• noun A container made to be carried on the body of a person or animal.
• noun The amount, as of food, that is processed and packaged at one time or in one season.
• noun A small package containing a standard number of identical or similar items.
• noun A complete set of related items.
• noun Informal A large amount; a heap.
• noun A group of animals, such as dogs or wolves, that run and hunt together.
• noun A gang of people.
• noun An organized troop having common interests.
• noun A mass of large pieces of floating ice driven together.
• noun Material, such as towels, sheets, or blankets that are used to swathe a patient or body part.
• noun A material, such as gauze, that is therapeutically inserted into a body cavity or wound.
• noun An ice pack used to reduce pain and inflammation.
• noun A cold pack.
• noun A hot pack.
• noun A cosmetic paste that is applied to the skin, allowed to dry, and then rinsed off.
• intransitive verb To fold, roll, or combine into a bundle; wrap up.
• intransitive verb To put into a receptacle for transporting or storing.
• intransitive verb To fill up with items.
• intransitive verb To process and put into containers in order to preserve, transport, or sell.
• intransitive verb To bring together (persons or things) closely; crowd together.
• intransitive verb To fill up tight; cram.
• intransitive verb To wrap (a patient) in a pack.
• intransitive verb To insert a pack into (a body cavity or wound).
• intransitive verb To wrap tightly for protection or to prevent leakage.
• intransitive verb To press together; compact firmly.
• intransitive verb Informal To carry, deliver, or have available for action.
• intransitive verb To send unceremoniously.
• intransitive verb To constitute (a voting panel) by appointment, selection, or arrangement in such a way that it is favorable to one's purposes or point of view; rig.
• intransitive verb To place one's belongings in boxes or luggage for transporting or storing.
• intransitive verb To be susceptible of compact storage.
• intransitive verb To form lumps or masses; become compacted.
• idiom (pack it in) To cease work or activity.

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun In tanning, a workmen's name for a lot of hides placed in the same pit to undergo the liming process.
• To have in one's baggage, that is, in one's possession; possess.
• To transport goods as a business: as, to pack over the trail.
• noun A moccasin made of hide prepared with tallow and wax, used by various North American Indian tribes.
• noun A heavy felt or waterproof half-boot worn by loggers in the lumber-camps in winter.
• To form a pact; especially, to confederate for bad purposes; join in collusion.
• To plot; contrive fraudulently.