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PATCOO'M, a town of Bengal: fifty miles fouth-weft 
of Rogonatpour. Lat. 23. 3. N. Ion. 87. 2. E. 
PATE, /'. [derived by Skinner from tele, Fr. It may 
be, however, a corrupted contraction of the Lat. caput.'] 
The head. Now commonly ufed in contempt or 
ridicule, but anciently in ferious language.—'If any 
young novice happens into the neighbourhood of flat¬ 
terers, prefently they are plying his full purfeand empty 
pate with addrefles fuitable to his vanity. South. 
He is a traitor; let him to the Tower, 
And crop away that factious pate of his. Shukefpeare. 
Thank your gentler fate, 
That, for a bruis’d or broken pate , 
Has freed you from thofe knobs that grow 
Much harder on the married brow. Hudibras. 
PATE, a fmall ifland of France, in the river Gironde, 
near Blaye. 
PATEABAR'RY, a town of Bengal: twenty miles 
fouth of Moorfliedabad. 
PATEAGUR', a town of Hindooftan, in the circar of 
Sallapour: thirty-five miles north-weft of Sallapour. 
PA'TED, adj. Having a pate. It is ufed only in com- 
pofition : as, long-pa/et/, or cunning; (hallow -pated, or 
foolifh. 
PATE'E, adj. in heraldry. See vol. ix. p. 423. 
PATEE'BA, a town of Hindooftan, in Benares: eight 
miles fouth of Chunar. 
PATEFAC'TION, /. [patefadio, Lat.] ACt or ftate of 
opening; declaration.—The decalogue he [Mofes] re¬ 
ceived from the hand of God, written with the finger of 
God ; the reft of the divine patefudions he wrote himfelf. 
l’earfon on the Creed. —God hath (till preferved and quick¬ 
ened the worfhip due unto his name, by the pulefadion 
of himfelf. Ibid. 
PATEGO'W, a town of Hindooftan, in thfe circar of 
Hindia : eight miles fouth of Hurdah. 
PATEL', a French landfcape-painter much efteemed. 
The place of his birth, and the date of it, are equally 
unknown. The execution of his pidtures is of an eafy, 
light, and agreeable, charadter ; and his general tafte of 
a pleafing nature; but he does not rank above the clafs 
ofartifts merely agreeable. 
PATF/LI, or Puta'la, a town of Thibet, in thedif- 
triCt of Lafia, where, upon a mountain, is the temple or 
palace of the grand lama : three miles eaft of Lafia, and 
272 north-north-weft of Ghergong. 
PATEL'LA, f. The round bone of the knee; the 
knee-pan. 
P'ATELL.ffi. Soft orbicular raifed moveable bodies at 
the bafe of the thighs, in fome infeCts, as the genus 
Ichneumon. 
PATEL'LA, f. [Lat. a little plate, or difti, from the 
fhape.] The Limpet ; in natural hiftory, a genus of 
worms of the clafs vermes, order teftacea, of which there 
are about 250 fpecies described. Generic characters— 
Animal a Umax ; (hell univalve, fubconic, (haped like a 
bafin, and without a fpire. In all cafes the (hells are at¬ 
tached to fome hard body: their fummit is fometimes 
acute, fometimes obtufe, flatted, turned back or perfo¬ 
rated. The rock, or other hard body, to which they are 
always found adhering, ferves as a kind of fecond or un¬ 
der (hell to preferve them from injury ; hence they have 
by fome naturalifts, though erroneoufly, been claffed 
among the bivalves. The (hells have been anaiyfed, and 
they are found to confift chiefly of carbonate of lime. 
When expofed to a red heat, they emit a fmelllike horn, 
and when dififolved in acids, a femi-liquid gelatinous 
matter was left behind. For farther general remarks, fee 
the article Conchology, vol. v. p. 20. where feveral of 
the fpecies are figured ; and Helminthology, vol. ix. 
p. 354. The fpecies are feparated into five divifions, 
from the peculiarities of the (hell. 
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I. Labiata. Furnilhed with an internal lip; (hell entire. 
1. .Patella equeftris : (hell orbicular, perfoliate out¬ 
wardly ; lip vaulted perpendicular. This fpecies inha¬ 
bits the Indian and American feas. It is an inch wide ; 
and is reprefented, of the full iize, on the annexed 
Plate, at fig. 1. an infide view of the fame at fig. 2. 
2. Patella neritoidea : (hell ovate, with a fubfpiral tip; 
lip lateral. The native place of this fpecies is not known ; 
it is generally found adhering to other teftaceous fub- 
ftances. The (hell is the fize of a cherry; and the inha¬ 
bitant is red. 
3. Patella Sinenfis : (hell fubconic, fmootli; lip fome- 
what lateral. It inhabits the Mediterranean, Atlantic, 
and Indian, feas. The (hell is very thin and pellucid ; 
fometimes it is of a chefnut colour, fpeckled with minute 
grey dots; but generally it is white, with brown fpots 
and rays. 
4. Patella porcellana : (hell oval, with a recurved tip; 
lip placed behind and flat. It inhabits India and Goree. 
The (hell is convex ; within white, the outfide red, with 
white fcaly fpots, and tranfverfe undulate blue lines. 
5. Patella fornicata : (hell oval, obliquely recurved be¬ 
hind; lip placed behind, and concave. This is found 
in the Mediterranean and near the ifland of Barbadoes. 
It is reprefented at fig. 3. and an infide view of the lame 
at fig. 4. 
6. Patella aculeata : (hell oval, brown, with prickly 
ftriae; crown recurved. Inhabits the American ifiands. 
This is reprefented on the Conchology Plate I. fig. 7. 
vol. v. 
' 7. Patella trochiformis : (hell conic, longitudinally 
plaited; internal lip lateral. It inhabits Tranquebar, 
and the Falkland iflands. 
8. Patella auricula : (hell roundifti, with radiate 
grooves and ftriate ; crown recurved ; internal cavity 
ear-fiiaped. Inhabits Borneo, Santa Cruz, and St. Tho¬ 
mas’s ifiands. This is reprefented on the annexed Plate, 
at figs. 5, 6. 
9. Patella rugofa : (hell ovate, thin, hyaline, obfoletely 
wrinkled tranfverfely; margin unequal; lip unequally 
repand, hyaline. It inhabits China, and is generally 
found in the Buccinum fpiratum. 
10. Patella Goreenfis : (hell oval, flat, thin, white, 
gloffy, lamellate on the outfide. This is found adhering 
to rocks at Goree ; and is about half an inch in diameter. 
11. Patella contorta : (hell granulate with white, with 
very fine perpendicular oblique ribs : the lip is very thin, 
oblique, and covering half the cavity. This is a very 
fmall (hell. 
12. Patella explanata : (hell white, very finely ftriate ; 
crown inclining downwards, and dilated, behind which 
the (hell is deprefied. 
13. Patella plicata : (hell conic, ochraceous, with fer¬ 
ruginous rays within, with longitudinal tranfverfely- 
ftriate plaits. 
14. Patella ftriata : (hell conic, white and ftriate, with 
undulate grooves; the crown is a little'lateral. See fig. 7. 
15. Patella folea : (hell a little twilled, pellucid, with 
ferruginous fpots, thinly plaited and tranfverfely grooved 
above; lip undulately repand. 
16. Patella echinata: (hell conic, prickly, glabrous 
within. Tt is found foflile near Crignon. The (hell 
is calcareous and whitifti, covered on the outfide with 
prickles. 
II. Dentata. With the margin angular or irregularly 
toothed. 
17. Patella crepidula: (hell oval, flattifii, fmooth ; the 
lip flat behind. It is found in the Mediterranean, efpe- 
cially about the coafts of Barbary. 
18. Patella laciniofa: (hell with elevated unequal rays, 
thicker and obtufe on the outfide. This is an inhabit¬ 
ant of India. 
19. Patella 
