(pā) v. paid, pay·ing v.t.
1. To give to (someone) what is due for a debt, purchase, etc.; recompense; remunerate.
2. To give (money, etc.) for a purchase, service rendered, etc.
3. To provide or hand over the amount of; discharge, as a debt, bill, etc.
4. To yield as return or recompense.
5. To afford profit or benefit to: It wouldn't pay me to do it.
6. To defray, as expenses.
7. To requite, as for an insult.
8. To render or give, as a compliment, attention, etc.
9. To make, as a call or visit.
—v.i.
10. To make recompense or payment.
11. To afford compensation or profit; be worthwhile: It pays to be honest.
—to pay back To repay.
—to pay off
1. To pay the entire amount of (a debt, mortgage, etc.).
2. to pay the wages of and discharge.
3. To gain revenge upon or for.
4. Colloq. To afford full return; be fully effective.
5. Naut. To turn or cause to turn to leeward.
—to pay out
1. To disburse or expend.
2. Naut. To let out by slackening, as a rope or cable.
—to pay up To make full payment of.
—noun
1. That which is given as a recompense or to discharge a debt; compensation; wages.
2. The act of paying or the state of being paid.
3. Whatever compensates for labor or loss; an equivalent.
4. Requital; reward; also, punishment; retaliation.
5. A person considered from the point of view of his ability to pay or his promptness or slowness in paying.
6. A worthwhile yield of metal in a vein or ore.
7. Retribution. See synonyms under SALARY.
—adjective
1. Of or pertaining to payments, persons who pay, or services paid for: pay day, pay students, a pay library, etc.
2. Yielding enough metal to be worth mining: pay dirt, pay quartz, etc. [<OF payer pay, appease <L pacare appease <pax, pacis peace]
—pay′er noun

(pā) v.t. paid or payed, pay·ing
To coat with pitch or other waterproof composition, as the seams of a vessel, etc. [<AF peier <L picare <pix, picis pitch]