pam

n. [ From Palm victory; cf. trump, fr. triumph, and perh. fr. F. pamphile from Pamphile, a man's name. ] 1. The knave of clubs. [ Obs. ] Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A card game in which the jack of clubs is trump. [ PJC ]

n. A pavement. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A plain. See pampas. [ PJC ]

‖n. [ Sp. ] (Zool.) Same as Pompano. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. pl. [ Sp., fr. Peruv. pampa a field, plain. ] Vast grass-covered plains in the central and southern part of the Argentine Republic in South America. The term is sometimes used in a wider sense for the plains east of the Andes extending from Bolivia to Southern Patagonia. [ 1913 Webster ]

Pampas cat (Zool.), a South American wild cat (Felis pajeros). It has oblique transverse bands of yellow or brown. It is about three and a half feet long. Called also straw cat. --
Pampas deer (Zool.), a small, reddish-brown, South American deer (Cervus campestris syn. Blastocerus campestris). --
Pampas grass (Bot.), a very tall ornamental grass (Gynerium argenteum) with a silvery-white silky panicle. It is a native of the pampas of South America. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Pampered p. pr. & vb. n. Pampering. ] [ Cf. LG. pampen, slampampen, to live luxuriously, pampe thick pap, and E. pap. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. To feed to the full; to feed luxuriously; to glut; as, to pamper the body or the appetite. “A body . . . pampered for corruption.” Dr. T. Dwight. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To gratify inordinately; to indulge to excess; as, to pamper pride; to pamper the imagination. South. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Fed luxuriously; indulged to the full; hence, luxuriant; as, pampered children. “Pampered boughs.” Milton. “Pampered insolence.” Pope. -- Pam"pered*ness, n. Bp. Hall. [1913 Webster]

n. One who, or that which, pampers. Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]