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PAS 
weeds are come up again.- If any dung or compoft be 
prepared for the land, let it be laid on. Plough at this 
time, and plough it in a moderate depth immediately, 
f'o that the teeth of the harrow after rolling may reach 
it. Roll the land every day as it is ploughed with a 
light roller, and obferve not to fpread the dung long 
before it is ploughed in. Harrow well when the weeds 
come up that are produced by the dung, fo as to bring 
the dung up and mix it with the foil; obferving not to 
harrow more at once than can be ploughed in one day. 
Plough it up after the harrows the fame depth as before, 
and follow the plough with a roller. The land will now 
lie under the proper preparation for the feeds, which may 
be fown after the firlt foaking rain from the end of Au- 
guft to the end of September, in the following manner. 
Plough the land about the fame depth as before : har¬ 
row it once in a place, and fow the feeds after the har¬ 
row': then with a hurdle bullied with black-thorn bullies, 
harrow the feeds in. When the plants appear, roll the 
land with a light roller, and not before, except the wea¬ 
ther prove very dry, in which cafe it will be neceflary to 
roll it with a very light roller after the bufh-harrow. A 
light drefling of good manure laid on with the firlt frolt, 
will be of great ufe in preferving the grafs the firlt fea- 
fon, and encouraging its growth afterwards. And a 
light roller ufed after every frolt, will be of great fervice 
the firlt winter. 
In Yorkfliire they have three ways of fowing grafs- 
feeds: ift, in Augult; adly, with barley, which is molt 
ufed ; 3dly, upon wheat, in March. The firlt w'ay is the 
belt; and the fecond is better than the lalt. The quan¬ 
tity fown is ten bufheis to the acre, four pounds of hop- 
trefoil (Medicago lupulina, black nonefuch), or white 
clover, and fonie add two pounds of ray-grafs. After 
the crop is cut, fuffer no cattle to enter till next hay- 
liarveft, when the grafs may be either cut or fed. But 
there is danger from the cattle in the laft way. The 
farmers generally mow the firlt crop for the fake of 
feeds, becaufe that affords more than the fucceeding 
ones. If fown with barley, roll as foon as the barley is 
off the ground. Lay on dung after the firffc crop of grafs 
is mowed. 
As to the different kind of herbs of pafture, and their 
qualities, fee the article Grass, vol. viii. See alfo the ar¬ 
ticle Husbandry, vol. x. p. 521, 548. 
Pasture. Human culture; education. Not ufed. 
From the firlt jwjlures of our infant age, 
To elder cares and man’s feverer page, 
We lalli the pupil. Dryden. 
To PAS'TURE, v. a. To place in a palture. 
To PA'STURE, v. n. To graze on the ground.—He 
[Nebuchadnezzar] like an ox fhall pafture. Gower’s 
Conf. An1. 
The cattle in the fields and meadows green : 
Thofe rare and folitary, thefe in flocks, 
Vafuring at once, and in broad herds upfprung. Milton. 
PA'STY, [from pafte.] A work of pafte, or paltry ; 
being a preparation of fome proper meat, as beef, veni- 
fon, lamb, or the like, well boned, beaten up to a pulp, 
and highly feafoned ; put up in a pafte, and then baked 
in an oven. — I will confefs what I know ; if ye pinch me 
like a pafy, I can fay no more. ShakeJ'peare. 
Of the pafte a coffin will I rear, 
And make two pcjhes of your fhameful heads. ShukeJ'p. 
If you would fright an alderman and mayor, 
Within a pafy lodge a living hare. King. 
PASZ'BERG, or Pas, a town of Iftria : twenty-five 
miles fouth-fouth-eaft of Triefte, and nine north-north- 
eall of I’edena. 
PAT, adj. [pas, Teut. opportunity; or, by a change 
of letters, from the Lat. aptus, fir, apt.] Fit; conve¬ 
nient ; exaftly fuitable either as to time or place. This 
P A T 
is a low word, and not now ufed but in burle’fque wri¬ 
tings, or in colloquial expreflion. Yet formerly our beft 
writers employed it in their molt ferious compofitions.— 
Sometimes it [facetioufnefs] lieth in pat allulion to a 
known ftory. Barrow. —There are fome inftances of ven¬ 
geance befalling very flagitious men fo fignaily, and 
with fuch pat and fignificant circumftances, that (without 
any uncharitablenefs) we may be led by the fullering to 
the fin ; as in the famous cafe of Adonibezek, Judg. i. 7. 
Goodman's Wint. Ev. Conference. —Zuinglius dreamed of 
a text, which he found very pat to his doctrine of the 
Eucharilt. Alterbury. 
They never faw two things fo pat 
In all refpefts as this and that. Hudibras. 
PAT, adv. Fitly; conveniently; in a way exactly 
fuitable either as to time or place.—Touching opinion, 
fo various are the intelleftuals of human creatures, 
that one can hardly find out two who jump pat in one. 
Howell's Letters. 
He was forely put to’t at the end of a verfe, 
Becaufe he could find no word to come put in. Swift. 
PAT, /, [putte, Fr. is a foot, and thence pat may be 
a blow’ with the foot. Dr. Johnjbn. Others derive it from 
the Fr. bat, a blow ; and that from the very ancient word 
buta, as Serenius obferves, to ftrike. It may, by a meta- 
thefis, however, be no other than the word tap, a gentle 
blow. Todd.'] A light quick blow’; a tap.—The leaft 
noife is enough to dilturb the operation of his brain ; the 
put of a (huttle-cock, or the creaking of a jack, will do. 
Collier on Human Reafin. — Small lump of matter beat 
into ffiape ; as, a pat of butter. 
To PAT, v. a. To ftrike lightly; to tap.—Children 
prove, whether they can rub upon the bread: with one 
hand, and pat upon the forehead with another; and 
ftraightways they put with both. Bacon’s Nat. Hiji. 
PA'TA, a town on the north coaft of the ifland of 
Lugon. Lat. 18. 15. N. Ion. 121. zo. E. 
PA'TA, a frnall ifland in the Sooloo Archipelago. 
Lat. 5. 45. N. Ion. 121.10. E. 
PATABE'A,/. [derivation unknown.] In botany, a 
genus of the clals tetrandia, order monogynia, natural 
order rubiacete, Juff. Generic characters—Calyx: peri- 
anthium fuperior, of one leaf, turbinate, with fouracute 
little teeth. Corolla: of one petal; tube oblong, in- 
ferted into the difk, above the germen ; limb cloven 
into four oblong acute lobes. Stamina : filaments four, 
fhort, inferred into the tube at its throat; antheraj ob¬ 
long, two-celled. Piftillum: germen'inferior, firmly 
united to the bottom of the calyx, crowned by the dilk ; 
ftyle oblong, cloven ; ftigmas two, obtufe. Pericarpium 
and feeds unknow'n.'— Efjhitial Charader. Calyx four¬ 
toothed; flowers in little heads, which are fcaly on the 
outfide; corolla tubular, four cleft; antherae nearly fef- 
file. 
Patabea coccinea, a Angle fpecies. It is a native of 
woods and forefts in Guiana, particularly at Orapu, where 
it flowers in the month of June. The Item of this ftirub 
is four or five feet in height, furnilhed with numerous 
branches even to its fummit, fcattered in all directions; 
the fmaller ones knobbed and oppofite. Leaves oppofite, 
(talked, oval, fmooth, pointed^ paler beneath. Flowers 
red, in a terminal head, feparated from each other by lit¬ 
tle (bales. Aublet, t. 43. 
PATACA', f. Coins of Brafil of 600 and 640 rees va¬ 
lue, current only in that country, and whofe intrinfic 
value is 10 per cent, lefs than that of the Portugal coins. 
The Spaniffi patacas, or dollars, are reckoned in Lifbon at 
830 rees, more or lefs. The old pataca of Brafil, of 640 
rees, is in (terling value 3s. i|d. The pataca of 600 rees 
(1755) is worth 2s. io|d. The impreflion on the pataca 
is the arms of Portugal, with 640 on the fide, and the 
date near the top; legend, the name and title of the 
reigning fovereign, with the addition of eras. d. Bra- 
4 flirt 
