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Webster 1913 Edition

Pay

Pay

(pā)
,
Verb.
T.
[OF.
peier
, fr. L.
picare
to pitch,
pix
pitch: cf. OF.
peiz
pitch, F.
poix
. See
Pitch
a black substance.]
(Naut.)
To cover, as bottom of a vessel, a seam, a spar, etc., with tar or pitch, or waterproof composition of tallow, resin, etc.; to smear.

Pay

,
Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Paid
(pād)
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Paying
.]
[OE.
paien
, F.
payer
, fr. L.
pacare
to pacify, appease, fr.
pax
,
pacis
, peace. See
Peace
.]
1.
To satisfy, or content; specifically, to satisfy (another person) for service rendered, property delivered, etc.; to discharge one’s obligation to; to make due return to; to compensate; to remunerate; to recompense; to requite;
as, to
pay
workmen or servants
.
May no penny ale them
pay
[i. e., satisfy].
P. Plowman.
[She]
pays
me with disdain.
Dryden.
2.
Hence, figuratively: To compensate justly; to requite according to merit; to reward; to punish; to retort or retaliate upon.
For which, or pay me quickly, or I'll
pay
you.
B. Jonson.
3.
To discharge, as a debt, demand, or obligation, by giving or doing what is due or required; to deliver the amount or value of to the person to whom it is owing; to discharge a debt by delivering (money owed).
“Pay me that thou owest.”
Matt. xviii. 28.
Have patience with me, and I will
pay
thee all.
Matt. xviii. 26.
If they
pay
this tax, they starve.
Tennyson.
4.
To discharge or fulfill, as a duy; to perform or render duty, as that which has been promised.
This day have I
paid
my vows.
Prov. vii. 14.
5.
To give or offer, without an implied obligation;
as, to
pay
attention; to
pay
a visit.
Not
paying
me a welcome.
Shakespeare
To pay off
.
(a)
To make compensation to and discharge;
as,
to pay off
the crew of a ship
.
(b)
To allow (a thread, cord, etc.) to run off; to unwind.
(c)
to bribe.
–
To pay one's duty
,
to render homage, as to a sovereign or other superior.
–
To pay out
(Naut.)
,
to pass out; hence, to slacken; to allow to run out;
as,
to pay out
more cable.
See under
Cable
.
–
To pay the piper
,
to bear the cost, expense, or trouble.
[Colloq.]

Pay

(pā)
,
Verb.
I.
To give a recompense; to make payment, requital, or satisfaction; to discharge a debt.
The wicked borroweth, and
payeth
not again.
Ps. xxxvii. 21.
2.
Hence, to make or secure suitable return for expense or trouble; to be remunerative or profitable; to be worth the effort or pains required;
as, it will
pay
to ride; it will
pay
to wait; politeness always
pays
.
To pay for
.
(a)
To make amends for; to atone for;
as, men often
pay for
their mistakes with loss of property or reputation, sometimes with life
.
(b)
To give an equivalent for; to bear the expense of; to be mulcted on account of.

'T was I
paid for
your sleeps; I watched your wakings.
Beau. & Fl.
–
To pay off
.
[Etymol. uncertain.]
(a)
(Naut.)
To fall to leeward, as the head of a vessel under sail.
(b)
to repay (a debt).
–
To pay on
.
[Etymol. uncertain.]
To beat with vigor; to redouble blows.
[Colloq.]
–
To pay round
[Etymol. uncertain.]
(Naut.)
To turn the ship's head.

Pay

,
Noun.
1.
Satisfaction; content.
Chaucer.
2.
An equivalent or return for money due, goods purchased, or services performed; salary or wages for work or service; compensation; recompense; payment; hire;
as, the
pay
of a clerk; the
pay
of a soldier.
Where only merit constant
pay
receives.
Pope.
There is neither
pay
nor plunder to be got.
L'Estrange.

Webster 1828 Edition

Pay

PAY

,
Verb.
T.
pret. and pp. paid.
1.
To discharge a debt; to deliver to a creditor the value of the debt, either in money or goods, to his acceptance or satisfaction, by which the obligation of the debtor is discharged.
2.
To discharge a duty created by promise or by custom or by the moral law; as, to pay a debt of honor or of kindness.
You have paid down
More penitence,than done trespass.
3.
To fulfill; to perform what is promised; as, to pay one's vows.
4.
To render what is due to a superior, or demanded by civility or courtesy; as, to pay respect to a magistrate; to pay due honor to parents.
5.
To beat.
For which, or pay me quickly, or I'll pay you.
6.
To reward; to recompense; as, to pay for kindness with neglect.
To pay for, to make amends; to atone by suffering. Men often pay for their mistakes with loss of property or reputation, sometimes with life.
1.
To give an equivalent for any thing purchased.
To pay,or pay over, in seamen's language, to daub or besmear the surface of any body, to preserve it from injury by water or weather.
To pay the bottom of a vessel, to cover it with a composition of tallow, sulphur, rosin, &c.; to bream.
To pay a mast or yard, to besmear it with tar, turpentine, rosin, tallow or varnish.
pay a seam, to pour melted pitch along it, so as to defend the oakum.
To pay off; to make compensation to and discharge; as, to pay off the crew of a ship.
To pay out, to slacken, extend or cause to run out; as, to pay out more cable.

PAY

,
Verb.
I.
To pay off,in seamen's language, is to fall to leeward, as the head of a ship.
To pay on, to beat with vigor; to redouble blows. [Colloquial.]

PAY

,
Noun.
Compensation; recompense; an equivalent given for money due, goods purchased or services performed; salary or wages for services; hire. The merchant receives pay for goods sold; the soldier receives pay for his services,but the soldiers of the American revolution never received full pay.
1.
Compensation; reward.
Here only merit constant pay receives--

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