Verb

(head)

(pace)

* {{quote-book, year=1818, author=Lucy Aikin, title=Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=* * * * * Queen Elizabeth to the king of Scots: "When the first blast of a strange, unused, and seld heard of sound had pierced my ears, I supposed that flying fame, who with swift quills oft paceth with the worst, had brought report of some untruth, but when too too many records in your open parliament were witnesses of such pronounced words, not more to my disgrace than to your dishonor, who did forget that (above all other regard) a prince's word ought utter nought of any, much less of a king, than such as to which truth might say Amen: But you, neglecting all care of yourself, what danger of reproach, besides somewhat else, might light upon you, have chosen so unseemly a theme to charge your only careful friend withal, of such matter as (were you not amazed in all senses) could not have been expected at your hands; of such imagined untruths as were never thought of in our time; and do wonder what evil spirits have possessed you, to set forth so infamous devices void of any show of truth. }}

* {{quote-book, year=1893, author=William Watson, title=The Poems of William Watson, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=The master paceth up and down his halls, And in the empty hours Can hear the tottering of his towers And tremor of their bases underground. }}

* {{quote-book, year=1913, author=Virna Sheard, title=The Miracle and Other Poems, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=Through forest aisles while the wind chanteth low-- In God's cathedral where the great trees grow, Now all day long he paceth to and fro. }}

* {{quote-book, year=1913, author=William Morris, title=The Story of the Glittering Plain, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=Then that small voice made a word and said: "Why paceth the fool up and down our hall, doing nothing, even as the Ravens flap croaking about the crags, abiding the war-mote and the clash of the fallow blades?" }}

Verb

(head)

(archaic) (place)

Verb

(plac)

To put (an object or person) in a specific location.

* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)

, chapter=19 citation , passage=Meanwhile Nanny Broome was recovering from her initial panic and seemed anxious to make up for any kudos she might have lost, by exerting her personality to the utmost. She took the policeman's helmet and placed it on a chair, and unfolded his tunic to shake it and fold it up again for him.}}

* {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=May-June, author= Charles T. Ambrose

, title= Alzheimer’s Disease , volume=101, issue=3, page=200, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Similar studies of rats have employed four different intracranial resorbable, slow sustained release systems— […]. Such a slow-release device containing angiogenic factors could be placed on the pia mater covering the cerebral cortex and tested in persons with senile dementia in long term studies.}}

To earn a given spot in a competition.

To remember where and when (an object or person) has been previously encountered.

(in the passive) To achieve (a certain position, often followed by an ordinal) as in a horse race.

To sing (a note) with the correct pitch.

To arrange for or to make (a bet).

To recruit or match an appropriate person for a job.