2. Fig.: To make smooth, easy, and safe; to prepare, as a path or way; as, to pave the way to promotion; to
pave the way for an enterprise.
It might open and pave a prepared way to his own title.
Bacon. Pavement
(Pave"ment) n. [F., fr. LL. pavamentum, L. pavimentum. See Pave.] That with which
anythingis paved; a floor or covering of solid material, laid so as to make a hard and convenient surface
for travel; a paved road or sidewalk; a decorative interior floor of tiles or colored bricks.
The riches of heaven's pavement, trodden gold.
Milton. Pavement teeth (Zoöl.),
flattened teeth which in certain fishes, as the skates and cestracionts, are arranged
side by side, like tiles in a pavement.
Pavement
(Pave"ment), v. t. To furnish with a pavement; to pave. [Obs.] "How richly pavemented!" Bp.
Hall.
Paven
(Pav"en) n. See Pavan.
Paver
(Pav"er) n. One who paves; one who lays a pavement. [Written also pavier and pavior.]
Pavesade
(Pav`e*sade") n. [F. See Pavise.] A canvas screen, formerly sometimes extended along the
side of a vessel in a naval engagement, to conceal from the enemy the operations on board.
Pavese
(Pa*vese" Pa*vesse") , n. Pavise. [Obs.]
Paviage
(Pa"vi*age) n. (Law) A contribution or a tax for paving streets or highways. Bouvier.
Pavian
(Pav"i*an) n. See Pavan.
Pavid
(Pav"id) a. [L. pavidus, from pavere to be afraid.] Timid; fearful. [R.] Thackeray.
Pavidity
(Pa*vid"i*ty) n. Timidity. [R.]
Pavier
(Pav"ier) n. A paver.
Paviin
(Pa"vi*in) n. (Chem.) A glucoside found in species of the genus Pavia of the Horse-chestnut
family.
Pavilion
(Pa*vil"ion) n. [F. pavillon, fr. L. pavilio a butterfly, also, a tent, because spread out like a
butterfly's wings.]
1. A temporary movable habitation; a large tent; a marquee; esp., a tent raised on posts. "[The] Greeks
do pitch their brave pavilions." Shak.
2. (Arch.) A single body or mass of building, contained within simple walls and a single roof, whether
insulated, as in the park or garden of a larger edifice, or united with other parts, and forming an angle or
central feature of a large pile.
3. (Mil.) A flag, colors, ensign, or banner.
4. (Her.) Same as Tent (Her.)
5. That part of a brilliant which lies between the girdle and collet. See Illust. of Brilliant.
6. (Anat.) The auricle of the ear; also, the fimbriated extremity of the Fallopian tube.