What is "full pay"

Pay \Pay\, n.

1. Satisfaction; content.
   --Chaucer.

2. An equivalent or return for money due, goods purchased, or services performed; salary or wages for work or service; compensation; recompense; payment; hire; as, the pay of a clerk; the pay of a soldier.

   Where only merit constant pay receives.
   --Pope.

   There is neither pay nor plunder to be got.
   --L'Estrange.

   Full pay, the whole amount of wages or salary; maximum pay; especially, the highest pay or allowance to civil or military officers of a certain rank, without deductions.

   Half pay. See under Half.

   Pay day, the day of settlement of accounts.

   Pay dirt (Mining), earth which yields a profit to the miner. [Western U.S.]

   Pay office, a place where payment is made.

   Pay roll, a roll or list of persons entitled to payment, with the amounts due.