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Webster's Dictionary (1865)

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Packet

Päck'et, n.

noun

n. [Fr. paquet, Sp. & Pg. paquete, It. pacco, from Ger. pack. See PACK.]

  1. A small pack or package; a little bundle or parcel; as, a packet of letters.
  2. A dispatch-vessel; a ship or other vessel employed by government to convey letters from country to country, or from port to port; hence, a vessel employed in conveying dispatches and passengers, or passengers and goods on fixed days of sailing.
  3. The pannel borne by a pack-horse to carry packs or bundles in. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

Păck'et, v. t.

verbtransitive

[imp. & p. p. PACKETED; p. pr. & vb. n. PACKETING.] 1. To make up into a packet or bundle. “Letters well sealed and packeted.” Swift. 2. To send in a packet or dispatch-vessel. “Her husband Was packeted to France.” Ford.

Päck'et, v. i.

verbintransitive

v. i. To ply with a packet or dispatch-vessel.