patamar 
has an upward curve amidships, and extends only about 
half the length of the vessel ; the stem and stern, espe- 
cially the former, have great rake : and the draft of wa- 
ter is much greater at the head than at the stern. These 
vessels sail remarkably well, and stow a good cargo. Imp. 
Diet. 
patandt, . Same uspattcn' 2 , 1 (c). 
Patarelii (pat-a-rel'I), . pi. [ML., dim. of 
Patarini.'] Same as Patarini. 
Patarine (pat'a-rin), n. and a. [< ML. Pata- 
>'"'.] I. . One of the Patarini. 
II, a. Of or pertaining to the Patarini. 
Patarini, Paterini (pat-a-ri'm, pat-e-ri'ni), n. 
pi. [ML. ; said to be <. Putaria or Patarea, a rag- 
men's quarter in medieval Milan, and place of 
assembly of the early Patarini. Cf. It. pata- 
rino, a porter or day-laborer.] 1. Asectwhich 
arose in Milan in the middle of the eleventh 
century, and opposed especially the marriage 
of priests. 2. A name given in the twelfth 
century and later to the Albigenses, Cathari, 
and others. Also Patarelii in both senses. 
patas, n. [African (?).] The red monkey of 
western Africa, Cercopithccus patas or C. rubrr. 
patavinity (pat-a-vin'i-ti), re. [< L. Patavini- 
ta(t-)s, the mode of speech of the Patavians 
(ascribed to Livy by Pollio), < Patavinus, Pa- 
tavian, < Patarium, the city now called Padua, 
in Italy, the birthplace of Livy.] The man- 
ner, style, character, etc., of Padua; specifi- 
cally, the peculiar style or diction of Livy, the 
Roman historian, who was born at Patavium, 
now Padua; hence, in general, the use of lo- 
cal or provincial words in writing or speaking. 
Patawa palm. See palm 2 . 
patch (pach), n. and a. [< ME. pacche, prob., 
with loss of medial I (as also prob. in pat 1 and 
pate^),forplalch: see platch. In this view the 
G. dial. (Swiss) batschen, patschcn, putsch, batsch, 
a patch, is not related. It. pezza, a patch, piece, 
is a diff . word : see piece.] I. n. 1. Any piece 
of material used to repair a defective place in 
some fabric or construction, as a piece of cloth 
sewed on a garment where it is torn or worn, 
a bit of masonry, mosaic, tiling, or the like, used 
to repair a defect in old work, or a sod or sods 
employed to make good an injured spot in a 
lawn. 
We, that mocke euerie Nation for keeping one fashion, 
yet steale patches from euerie one of them, to peece out 
our pride. Dekker, Seven Deadly Sins, p. 37. 
2. A piece of cloth cut into some regular shape, 
to be sewed with others into patchwork. 3. 
A small piece of silk or court-plaster used on 
the face, with the apparent purpose of height- 
ening the complexion by contrast. In the seven- 
teenth century patches were used cut not merely in 
squares and triangles, but in 
various extraordinary forms and 
of considerable size ; they were 
even cut into groups of figures 
several inches long and elaborate 
in outline. In the eighteenth 
century, and especially at the 
court of France, the fashion of 
wearing patches came again into 
vogue, and it has been deemed 
an essential accompaniment to 
powdered hair, reappearing fit- 
fully whenever the use of pow- 
der has been reintroduccd. 
Patches received special names 
according to the place where they were applied, as the 
coqmtte when on the lips, the e/ronUe or bold when on 
the nose, etc. 
'Tis not a face I only am in love with ; . . . 
Nor your black patches you wear variously, 
Some cut like stars, some in half -moons, some lozenges ; 
All which but show you still a younger brother. 
Fletcher (and another), Elder Brother, iii. 5. 
My wife seemed very pretty to-day, it being the first 
time I had given her leave to weare a black patch. 
Pepys, Diary, I. 120. 
3. A small piece of leather, greased canvas, 
pasteboard, or the like, used as the wadding for 
a rifle-ball. 4. A small square of thickleather 
sometimes used in the grinding of small tools 
to press the work on the stone, in order to pro- 
tect the fingers from abrasion. 5 . A block fixed 
on the muzzle of a gun to make the line of sight 
parallel with the axis of the bore. 6. A small 
piece of ground, especially one under cultiva- 
tion; a small detached piece; a plot; a com- 
paratively small piece or expanse of anything, 
as of snow, grass, etc. 
We go to gain a little patch of ground. 
Shak., Hamlet, iv. 4. 18. 
A patch of April snow, 
Upon a bed of herbage green. 
Wordsworth, White Doe of Rylstone, iv. 
A broad beautiful valley, . . . with gardens, orchards, 
patches of corn and potatoes, green meadows, and soft 
clumps of pine woods. Hmeells, Three Villages, Shirley. 
Patches as worn on the face 
about 1740. 
4824 
7f. A paltry fellow ; a ninny; a fool. The pro- 
fessional fool was formerly so called. HalKwell. 
Capon, coxcomb, idiot, patch ! Shak., C. of E., iii. 1. 32. 
I do deserve it ; call me patch and puppy, 
And beat me, if you please. 
Fletcher, Wildgoose Chase, iv. 2. 
8. A harlequin. 1'lanche. 9. In zool., a small, 
well-defined part of a surface characterized by 
Eeculiar color or appearance. 10. An over- 
ly put on the impression-surface of a printing- 
press, to get stronger impression on the type 
covered by the patch, and make a clearer print. 
Not a patch on, not fit to be compared with ; far in- 
ferior to : as, he is not a patch on you in the matter of ly- 
ing. [Colloq.] 
Soldier, you are too late. He is not a patch on you for 
looks ; but then he has loved me so long. 
C. Reade, Cloister and Hearth, xxxvii. (Davies.) 
Peyer'B patches. Same as agminate (/lands or Peyerian 
I/lands (which see, under gland). 
II. a. Arranged in patches, or separate 
squares, or the like. 
These dote [impressed upon prehistoric pottery] are so 
arranged as to form simply patch ornaments. 
Jewitt, Ceramic Art, I. 27. 
patch (pach), v. [<. patch, n.~\ I. trans. 1. To 
mend by adding a patch : often with up. 
In the town there are not above two or three hundred In- 
habitants, who dwell here and there in thepatcht up ruines. 
Sandys, Travailes, p. 160. 
With bits of wreck I patch the boat shall bear 
Me to that unexhausted Otherwhere. 
Lowell, to G. W. Curtis (P. S.). 
Especially (a) To sew a piece of cloth upon (a garment) 
where it is torn or worn out. (b) To repair (masonry) by 
filling interstices and fractures with new mortar or the 
like, (c) To substitute new work for, as for defaced or 
partly destroyed work in mosaic or inlaying. 
2. To serve as a patch on. 
That that earth which kept the world in awe 
Should patch a wall. Shak., Hamlet, v. 1. 239. 
3. To adorn by putting a patch or patches 
on the face ; also, to adorn with patches, as the 
face. 
But that which I did see, and wonder at with reason, 
was to find Pegg Pen in a new coach, with only her hus- 
band's pretty sister with her, both patched and very fine. 
Pepys, Diary, III. 120. 
Madam, who patch'd you to day? Let me see It is 
the hardest thing in dress I may say without vanity I 
know a little of it That so low on the cheek pulps the 
flesh too much. Steele, Lying Lover, iii. 1. 
4. To form of odd pieces or shreds ; construct 
of ill-assorted parts or elements; hence, to 
make or mend hastily or without regard to 
forms : usually with up : as, to patch up a peace ; 
to patch up a quarrel. 
If you'll patch a quarrel, 
As matter whole you have not to make it with, 
It must not be with this. Shak., A. and C., ii. 2. 52. 
It is many years since I learned it [a song] ; and, having 
forgotten a part of it, I was forced to patch it up by the 
help of mine own invention, who am not excellent at poe- 
try. /. Walton, Complete Angler, p. 176. 
They hate one another, but I will try to patch it up. 
Simjt, Journal to Stella, Iv. 
Thus Uncle Venner was a miscellaneous old gentleman, 
partly himself, but, in good measure, somebody else; 
patched together, too, of different epochs ; an epitome of 
times and fashions. Hawthorne, Seven Gables, iv. 
5 . To fit or adjust with a patch or wad of leather, 
etc. : said of a rifle-ball. 
If the bullet is the right size and properly patched. 
Sportsman's Gazetteer, p. 545. 
Patching up plates, in printing, affixing overlays in 
proper places to remedy the defects of uneven plates. 
II. intrans. To form patches, as snow on a 
mountain-side, vegetation on a ruin, etc. 
The patching houseleek's head of blossom. 
Browning, Love among the Ruins. 
patchable (pach'a-bl) a. [< patch + -able.] 
Capable of being patched. 
Not patched or patchable any longer. 
Carlyle, in Froude. 
patch-box (pach'boks), n. A small box used, 
especially in the eighteenth century, to con- 
Patch-box of Ivory (a showing outside of cover, and b inside with 
mirror j; iSth century. 
patchwork 
tain the black patches which were to bo ap- 
plied to the skill. These boxes were made of ivory, 
tortoise-shell, silver, etc., sometimes very costly, and hail 
usually a mirror inside of the lid. 
patched (pacht), p. a. 1. Mended or repaired 
with patches; adorned with patches. 2. Party- 
colored; habited or dressed in party-colored 
clothes, as was formerly the custom with do- 
mestic fools or jesters. 
Methought I had but man is but a patched fool, if he 
will oifer to say what methought I had. 
Shot., M. N. D., iv. 1. 215. 
3. Irregularly variegated in color, as an animal. 
4. Made of patches: as, a, patched quilt. 
patchedlyt (pach'ed-li), adv. In a patched 
manner; with patches. J. Vdall. 
patcher (pach'er), M. [< patch + -!.] One 
who patches or mends, 
patchery (pach'er-i), .; pi. patcheries (-iz). 
[< patch + -ery.] Bungling work; botchery; 
gross, bungling hypocrisy. 
Here is such patclicry, such juggling and such knavery ! 
Shak., T. and C., ii. 3. 77. 
Vile human inventions, and will worship, and hell-bred 
superstitions, and patcheries stitched into the service of 
the Lord, which the English mass-book . . . and the Or- 
dination of Priests ... are fully fraught withal. 
C. Chauncey, quoted in C. Mather's Magnalia, I. 467. 
patchhead (pach'hed), n. The surf-scoter, a 
duck, (Edemia perspicillata : so called from the 
white patches on the head. Also called patch- 
polled coot. [Maine.] 
patchiness (pach'i-nes), . The condition of 
being patchy; the appearance of being patched 
or of being made up of patches. 
The movement, therefore, gives the impression of patch- 
iness, despite the beauty of the melodies. 
Athenaeum, No. 3188, p. 743. 
patching (pach'ing), (. [Verbal n. of patcli, 
t'.] 1. The act of mending by the addition of 
a patch or patches. 2. A patch, or patches 
collectively; a patched place. 
Leat the il favoured sight of the patchim.i be hidden. 
J. Udatl, On Luke v. 
3. Wadding for a rifle-ball. 
Bob poured a large charge of powder into his gun, and, 
taking a bullet from his pouch, he felt in his pocket for 
the patching. E. Egyleeton, The Oraysons, xiii. 
4f. Patchery; hypocrisy. 
Blackston, being reproued for his false patching, fell in 
a quaking and shaking. Foxe, Martyrs, p. 1863, an. 1557. 
patchingly (pach'ing-li), adv. In a patching, 
or bungling or hypocritical, manner. 
Others, though not so willinglie admitting them, did yet 
dissemblinglie and patchinfflie vse some part of them. 
Foxe, Martyrs, p. 1184, an. 1548. 
patchockt (pach'ok), . [< patch + -ock.~] A 
clown; a mean or paltry fellow. 
Some in Leinster and Ulster are degenerate, and growen 
to be as very patchockes as the wild Irish. 
Spemter, State of Ireland. 
patchouli, patchouly (pa-cho'li), n. [< F. pat- 
chouli, < K Ind.] 1. An East Indian odorifer- 
ous plant, Pogostemon Patchouli, of the mint 
family. It grows 2 or 3 feet high, bears spikesof densely 
whorled small flowers, and ovate leaves 2 or 3 inches long. 
It yields a perfume long favorite in the East, and now 
common elsewhere. It gives their peculiar odor to India 
ink and India shawls. The dried leaves are much used 
in sachets, to scent clothing, etc. The essential oil in which 
the odor resides is distilled for toilet use. Also called 
puchapat. 
2. The perfume itself. 
He smelt as sweet as patchouli could make him. 
TroUope, Dr. Thorne, xxxiv. 
patch-panelt (pach'pan"el), a. and n. I. a. 
Shabby; worn out. 
AVhy, noble Cerberus, nothing but patch-pannel stuff, 
old gallimawfries, and cotten candle eloquence. 
WUy Beguiled, Prol. (Dames.) 
II. n. A shabby fellow. 
Hang thee, patch-pannel ! Dekker, Satiromastix. 
patch-polled (pach'pold), a. Having a patch 
(of white color) on the poll: specifically used 
in the phrase patch-polled coot, the patchhead. 
patchwork (pach' werk), n. 1. Work composed 
of pieces of various colors or figures sewed to- 
gether, especially a combination of many small 
pieces of stuff, sewed together edge to edge, to 
form a curtain, bedspread, or the like. 
His error lay in supposing that this ape, more than any 
past or future one, is destined to see the tattered gar- 
ments of Antiquity exchanged for a new suit, instead of 
gradually renewing themselves by patchwork. 
Uau-thorne, Seven Gables, xii. 
Patchwork was patchwork in those days. . . . Scraps of 
costly India chintzes and palempours were intermixed 
with commoner black and red calico in minute hexagons. 
iln. Gasleell, Sylvia's Lovers, xii. 
