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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Pack, v. i.
 1. To make up packs, bales, or bundles; to stow articles securely for transportation.
 2. To admit of stowage, or of making up for transportation or storage; to become compressed or to settle together, so as to form a compact mass; as, the goods pack conveniently; wet snow packs well.
 3. To gather in flocks or schools; as, the grouse or the perch begin to pack. [Eng.]
 4. To depart in haste; -- generally with off or away.
    Poor Stella must pack off to town   --Swift.
 You shall pack,
 And never more darken my doors again.   --Tennyson.
 5. To unite in bad measures; to confederate for ill purposes; to join in collusion. [Obs.] “Go pack with him.”
 To send packing, to drive away; to send off roughly or in disgrace; to dismiss unceremoniously.  “The parliament . . . presently sent him packing.”