patchwork 
2. Work composed n|' pieces clumsily jint to- 
gether; anything formed of ill-assorted parts. 
A manifest incoherent piece of patchtcorlr. Sxijt. 
A mrl li."l f pi nirliiiiK uliii h wax u jMlfhu'iirk of nil the 
!,lnu'1l:l-rs III!' |JIV:lrl|iT ..... llTSl ..... I. 
(inhixmiiit, braoongtn and UiHcounurei-H of '" t.it., li. 
patchy (puch'i). a. \< /HI/I-/I + -//I.] l. Full 
of patches : occurring in patches. 2. Cross; 
peevish. Ciinipitrr n'oxs-/Hllrli. I'l'iiHu/M: 3. 
Inharmonious : composed of incongruous parts; 
lacking unity of design in execution : said i ^pc- 
ciallv of a work of art or a piece of dec-oration. 
pate' (pat), ii. [< iMK. /mil', the crown of the 
head. < < >!'. />/itc, a ])late, with loss of I (as also 
in /HI/', /iti/<-lt). for /(//<, a plate, < G.platte, a 
plate, also a bald head, hence in vulgar use a 
head. MHO. jilnti; a plate, a shaven pate, ML. 
u, a shaven pale, the tonsure of a monk: 
I ::_.-. 
lion, di) 
['/'. I 
genus I'lllt Illl. \ ) 
A limpet of th 
In entomology, the tirst joint of the coxa. 4. 
I" fulfil.. a l.innean genus of 
gastropods, Ivpe of 
the family I'nlilli- 
ila: to whicli very 
different limits have 
been assigned. <) 
As originally constitut- 
ed and retained tiy I. lu- 
mens It was a very het- 
erogeneous assemblage 
of all forms having a 
IKI|I Ilifonn shell, and 
'i. u.. I (besides all 
Rock-llmpet (/>/<// 
sec /iluli; of which pate 1 is thus a var. form.] 
1. The crown or top of the head, whether of a 
person or of an animal; in general, the head; 
the poll; the noddle: usually employed in a 
trivial or derogatory sense, like noddle, etc. 
He venture one more broken pate. 
Catilcin-i Garland (Child's Ballads, VIII. 183). 
Shu gave my pate a sound knock, Hint it rings yet. 
Fletcher, .Spanish Curate, ni. 4. 
The thin grey locks of his failing hair 
Have left his little bald pate all bare. 
llarham, Ingoldsby Legends, I. 54. 
2. Tho skin of a calf's head. Imp. Diet. 3. 
Wit; cleverness; "brains"; "head." 
Kor, quick dispatching (hourely) Post oti Post, 
T :il I the Coverts of the Able-most, 
For Pate, Prowes, Purse ; commands, prayes, presses them 
To come with speed unto lervsalem. 
Xiilmtrr, Bethulians Rescue (trans. X I. 
4. In the fur trade, the fur from a black patch 
on the head of tho wild rabbit. Vre, Diet., IV. 
381. 
pate- (pat), 11. [Origin obscure.] A badger. 
Jlnlliii-fll. [Prov. Eng.] 
pate'' (pat), a. [Origin obscure.] Weak and 
sickly. Halliicell. [Prov. Eng.] 
pate (]>iit),. [F.: see paste.'] Paste Patesur 
pate, in ceram., decoration by means of tine enamel or 
porcelain-paste npplied upon a previously prepared surface 
so as to produce a very low relief. It differs from sopra 
bianco or tbbUMdMKgteto decoration In that it is treated 
as sculpture, tho relief Itself being the object aimed at. 
In the finest work the applied paste is always pure-white, 
and, as it comes upon a darker ground, the different de- 
grees of thickness of the paste give different degrees of 
translucency and of whiteness. In Inferior work the 
modeling is done without the same care for graded thick- 
nesses, and shade is produced by a gray tint. See Solon 
porcelain, under porcelain. Pate ten.are.8oft paste in 
porcelain : the French name, often used in English. 
pat6 (pa-ta'), [F.: see pasty*, patty.] 1. A 
small pasty 2. In fort., a kind of platform, 
usually of a roundish or oval shape, erected on 
marshy ground to cover a gate pate de fole 
graa, or Strasburg pate, a pasty made of fat goose- 
livers, imported principally from Strasburg in little stone 
pots. Properly the contents should be taken out and 
served iu a mist of i>.i -i i> . but the name Is usually given 
to the iirigiiul importation. 
pated (pii'ted), a. [< j>(tlcl + -crf2.] Having 
a pate or head (of this or that kind): used in 
composition : as, loiig-^><rrf, long-headed, cun- 
ning; shallow-TMfcW, ignorant, poorly informed, 
lacking iu sense. 
Doe you surmise, O shallow-jli men, 
That this excuse is all sufficient 
To satisfte for such a foule Intent? 
Timei' Whistle (E. E. T. S.), p. 18. 
pate's (pa-ta'), a. See pat I/': 
patefaction (pat-e-fak'shon), M. [<L.jite/<w- 
tin(ii-), a laying open, a making known, < patc- 
ftifcn; throw open: see iiti/rfy.'] The act of 
opening or manifesting; open declaration. 
For our sight of God in heaven, our place, our sphere Is 
heaven itself, our medium is the pate/action, the mani- 
festation, tin- revelation of Ood himself, and our Unlit is 
the light of glory. Donne, Sermons, xxi. 
patefyt (pat'e-fi), r. t. [< L. patrfarere, throw 
open, reveal. < /><tt<->-<; lie open, +faccre, make, 
do: see /m/cM.] To reveal ; show; declare. 
Thiisiln I wade in predestination, in such sort as Ood 
h;itli jHitcrirtt unit opi-iifil it. 
J. Bradford, Letters ( Parker Soc., 1853), II. 134. 
patella (pa-tel'a), M. ; pi. patcllus, patellae (-Sz, 
-e). [= F. patelle = It. i>aMla, < L. patella, a 
small pan or dish, a plate, the kneepau, pa- 
tella, dim. of /KitiiKi. /intniii. a broad shallow 
dish, a pan: see /it<n\, ixitiiiu. /mil'.] 1. A 
small pun, vase, or dish. 2. In aunt.. a small 
movalile Lone situated in front of the knee- 
joint, which it helps to form. Also called l.m-r- 
IIHII, /,'<(//>, I'tilii/ti, or urea! x/'xauioid. See cuts 
under 1,-nrr-jiiiitl. t'titarrhiiia. and ElijilinntiHie. 
3. In ;oiil.: (tt) Acotyle; a cup-like forma- 
L'T'J 
the Dveagiona) Font- 
nUidm Aneytida, Ca- 
lyptrtnda, and related 
forms. (*) It was sub- 
sequently gradually re- 
stricted and limited to docoglossate shells, (e) By later 
writers It has t>een conflned within narrow hounds, and 
to such species as have an oblong conic shell entirely open 
below like an Inverted basin, and with no aperture at the 
apex the true limpets, as those so named on the Engl Ish 
,''.:l-ls S, - JlNo I II! Uh'li'l jlt. n.ti.,',,,, 
6. In Iwt., an orbicular apothecium with a mar- 
ginal rim. Llgamentum patelle. See Hgamentvm. 
Patellacea (pat-e-la'se-il), n. pi. [ML.. < I'n- 
tella + -acea. J Same as Patellidie. 
patellar (pat'e-lar), a. [< patella + -r3.] Of 
or pertaining to' the patella or kneecap : as, 
thejwiMMrtendon or ligament. Patellar fossa, 
the anterior Intercondyloid fossa, or trochlea, of the femur. 
Patellar nerve, a branch of the long saphenous nerve. 
distributed to the skin In front of the knee. Patellar 
plexus, a plexus on the front of the knee, formed by the 
Internal and middle cutaneous and internal saphenous 
nerves. Patellar tendon or ligament. See ligamen- 
turn patella, under ligamentum. Patellar tendon re- 
flex. Same as knee-jerk. 
patellate (pat'e-lat), a. [< NL. 'patcllatas, < 
L. }iatclla, patella: see^>afHo.] 1. Incntom., 
made pat ell il'orm ; provided with a patella-like 
formation. Also patcllulate. 2. In hot., same 
as patelliform, 1 Patellate tarsus, a tarsus in which 
the joints are expanded and closely pressed together, form- 
Ing a patella. 
Patellidse (pa-tel'i-de), n. pi. [NL., < Patella 
+ -irfa>.] A family of gastropods, typified by 
the genus Patella ; the limpets, (a) Including such 
limpets as are otherwise separated as Acmxuta (false lim- 
pets) and Ltpetidfe. (b) Restricted to the true limpets. 
The animal has gills forming a row of leaflets around the 
fool . and the lingual ribbon has one or two lateral teeth 
and three marginal on each side. The shell is a flattened 
cone, open below, and has a horseshoe-shaped impression 
on the inside, open In front. These limpet* arenumerous 
in species and widely distributed. They live in general on 
rocky coasts, excavate a place for themselves on some rock 
where for the most part they rest, but whence they make 
excursions for food, chiefly at night. See cuts under patella 
and patcUifttrm. Also Patellacea. 
patelliform (pa-tel'i-forui), a. [< L. patella, a 
pan, dish, patella, 
+ forma, form. ] 1 . 
Having the shape 
of a patella or 
kneepan. A.\sopat- 
cllate. 2. Having 
the form of a de- 
pressed and gener- 
ally oblong cone or 
disk, hollow or un- 
partitioned within. 
Patellimani (pat- 
e-lim'a-ni), n. /. 
[NL.,pl. otpatflli- 
manus: see patel- 
liiuaHotM.'] In La- 
treille's classification, a group of caraboid bee- 
tles, distinguished from the Simplir-iuutni and 
(JuiirlritHaHi by the difference in the dilatation 
of the tarsi, tho two anterior tarsi being patel- 
late in the males. 
patelllmanoua (pat-e-lim'a-nus), a. [< M,. 
/><iit Illinium*. < L. /in/I llti. a pan, dish, patella. 
+ maims, hand.] In rntt>in., having the tarsi 
patellate; having patelliform tarsi; of or per- 
taining to the Patellimani. 
patelline (pat'e-lin), a. [< Patella + -I'HI.] 
Of, or having the characters of, the Patelliilje; 
resembling or related to a limpet ; patelliform. 
patellite (pat'e-lit), n. [<NL. Pati-llitrn, < Pu- 
ti-lln + -ites.] A member of a genus PateUites; 
a fossil limpet, as a species of Patella or some 
similar shell. 
patelloid (pat'e-loid), a. and . [< Patella + 
-""'.] I. a. Related to or resembling a patella 
or limpet; of or pertaining to the Patelloitlm. 
II. . A patelliform shell. 
Patelloidea (pat e-ioi'de-ii), n.nl. [NL., < L. 
patella, a pan. dish, patella, + Gr. rl&if, form.] 
1. In De Blaiuville's classification (lH25),oneof 
the four families of his inonopleurobrauchiate 
Patclliform Shell of Limpet (Pattlta 
iftttfltarim). 
patent 
I'm acepkalopkott //ici/, containing the ^'i-ii- 
iia / inliitlln, Xiftlitnxiritt, and 1'i/lntltmt, liaving 
a shell as in I'uli lln. lint not including the l'n- 
itlhilif. 2. In Kisso's classitii'ation, a family 
ty|iilied liy the genus I'liltlhi. 
patellula M':.' lel'u-lit), .: pi. ;i/7//,r (-le). 
[M,., dim. of 1.. /mil lln, a pan. dish, patella: 
I'ttti-llii.} In i iiliu n.. one of the sucking- 
disks or -cups on the lower surface of the tarsus 
of a male beetle of the genus Dytucus, or other 
water-beetle. 
patellulate (pa-tel'u-liitj. . Same usiialillntr. 
paten 1 (pftt'en), . [Konnerly !ilsoy///< n. /in/in, 
I'liimr; < MK. ']iatcn, ]>ntfii, iiatetit, a paten 
(eccl.), < L. iMitniH, /iiitniti (Sicilian Or. n-oriiw?), 
a broad shallow dish, a pan, a kind of cake. < 
/iutt re, lie open: see patent*. Cf. pan*, nit. < L. 
IIII/IHH, and dim. /inti-lln.] 1. .\ broad shallow 
dish; a bowl. 
l li-'\ [tho articles found In mounds, etc.) consist of 
jugs, pipkins, patent or bowls, watering-pots - all articles 
made for the poor. So/on, Old ling. Pottery, p. 17. 
2. l-:i-ri<.--.. a plate or flat dish; iu the com- 
munion service of certain liturgical churches, 
the plate on which the consecrated bread is 
placed. In the primitive church the paten was an ordi- 
nary piste ; but wnen wafers expressly prepared took the 
place of bread, the paten Inx-ame an ecclesiastical vessel. 
It Is wide and shallow, and Is generally made of silver, but 
soniftimcsof glass, gold, alabaster, agate, or other hard ma- 
terial. In the Koman Catholic Church the paten must l>e 
of the same material as the accompanying chalice, of some 
hard metal, the Inside of which Is heavily gilded, and, like 
the chalice, it must l>e consecrated by the bishop. 
3. A plate, as of metal. 
Look how the floor of heaven 
Is thick inlaid with patine* of bright gold. 
S*., M. of V., r. 1. 68. 
paten 2 !, . An obsolete form of patten'*. 
patency (pat'en-si or pa'ten-si),. [< ML.*/wi- 
tentia, < L. paieti(t-)ii, open: see patent 1 .] 1. 
The state of being patent or evident. 2. The 
state of being spread open or enlarged. Ditngli- 
son. 
patener (pat'en-er), M. [< paten 1 + -e-2.] Ec- 
cles., in the Western Church, iu medieval times, 
the acolyte who held the emptypaten raised as 
high as his face, with hands muffled in the.offer- 
tory veil, from the lesser oblation till the pater- 
noster. This is now done by the subdeacon. 
See offertory, ., 2 (a, 3). 
patent 1 (pat'entorpa'tent),.andii. [<ME.;>o- 
tente , a patent; < OF. (aiid F.) patent, &.,patente, 
n., = 8p. Pg. It. patente, a. and n.. = D. G. Dan. 
Sw. patent, n., < L. paten(t-)n, lying open, open, 
public (littei-apatcntes, an open letter, a letter to 
whom it may concern, a patent), jtpr. ofj>atere, 
lie open ; of . Gr. ireravvi-vat, spread out. From 
the L. ^pat are also tilt. E. pace 1 , pass, ptixsagc, 
etc., and prob. expand, expanse, etc.] I. . 1. 
Lying open; open; expanded. 
They may at times supply the roome which, Iwing emp- 
tic, would be patent to pernicious idleness. 
Quoted in Strutt'i Sports and Pastimes, p. 17. 
It [contraction of the external passage of the ear] Is read- 
ily relieved by the patient wearing a piece of silver tube, 
to keep the passage patent. Qttain, Med. Diet, p. 417. 
2. Specifically (a) In 6f., spreading; open; 
either widely spreading or diverging widely 
from an axis, (b) In zoiil., patulous; open, as 
by the size of an aperture, the shallowness of 
a cavity, etc. 3. Manifest to all; unconcealed; 
evident; obvious; conspicuous. 
In this country, the contract (of the king with the peo- 
ple| is not tacit, implied, and vague : It is explicit, patent, 
and precise. Up. llontiy. Works, III. xllv. 
My object here is to assume as little as possible as regards 
facts, and to dwell only on what Is patent and notorious. 
J. If. Xemnan, (iram. of Assent, p. 416. 
4. Open to the perusal of all : as, letters patent. 
See letters. 
In wytnesse of whfche thingis theis our letters we haue 
done be made patrnte*. 
Charter of London, In Arnold's Oironlcle, p. 34. 
6. Appropriated by letters patent; secured by 
law orpatent as an exclusive privilege; rest rain- 
ed from general use: patented 
Madder ... in King Charles the First's time . . . was 
made a patent commodity,. Mortimer, Husbandry. 
Oil of flattery, the best patent antifriction known, sub- 
dues all irregularities whatsoever. 
Carlyle, Diamond Necklace, vlii. 
Patent alum. Same uconcrntraird alum (which see, un- 
der alnm\ Patent ambiguity, In (air, an ambiguity that 
IK apjiarent on the face of a document, as distinguished 
from a doubt cast on thf meaning of a document apparently 
clear by evidence of some extrinsic fact. Xeclatettl. Pat- 
ent barley. See barley. - Patent drier, a paste com- 
posed of sugar of lead, barytes, ami limccd-oil, which is 
added in small o.uantitii-3 to house-paints to hasten their 
drjiiiK. Patent hammer. sc<- hammrri. Patent in- 
side, n newspaper printed on the inside only, and thus 
sold to publishers, who nil the imprinted side with matter 
