PAT 
PATTEN-MAKER,/ One that makes pattens. 
PAT'TENSBERG, a town of Virginia, on James 
River: 156 miles weft of Richmond. 
PAT'TENSEN, a town of Weftphalia, in the princi¬ 
pality of Calenberg, formerly furrounded with walls, 
moats, and ramparts : fix miles fouth of Hanover. 
To PATTER, v. n. [from patte, Fr. the foot.] To 
make a noife like the quick fteps of many feet: 
The pat t'ring hail comes pouring on the main, 
When Jupiter defcends in harden’d rain. Dryden. 
The dealing fhower is fcarce to patter heard 
By fucli as wander through the foreft walks. Thomfon. 
To PAT'TER, v. a. [derived by Mr. Tyrwhitt from 
pater-nnjier, fuppofing that the word originally meant to 
repeat the Lord’s prayer; but rather perhaps in ridicule 
of the Latin prayers of the Romanifts; as we have made 
hocus pocus out of hoc eft corpus. The word is ufed in 
Scotland; and in fome places of England, Dr. Jamiefon 
obferves, they yet fay, in derifory language, “ to patter 
out prayers.”] To recite or repeat haftily.—The people 
pattre and prai. Chaucer's Rom. R. 
PAT'TERGAUT, a town of Hindooftan, in the fu- 
bah of Delhi: twenty miles weft of Coel. 
PATTERGOT'TA, a town of Hindooftan, in Ben¬ 
gal : ten miles eaft of Pucculoe. 
PATTERGOT'TA, a town of AlTam : fifteen miles 
eaft of Gentiah. 
PATTERGOT'TA, a town of Bengal : twenty-two 
miles fouth-weft of Dinagepour. 
PATTERGOT'TA, a town of Bengal : eighteen 
miles eaft of Boglipour. 
PATTERGUR', a town of Hindoofton, in the dr¬ 
ear of Sumbul : four miles north-eaft of Nidjibabad. 
PAT'TERN, f. \palron, Fr. patroon, Dutch.] The 
original propofed to imitation; the archetype; that 
which is to be copied ; an exemplar.— Patterns to rule 
by are to be fought for out of good, not loofe, reigns. 
Duvenant.— Chriitianity commands us to aft after a no¬ 
bler pattern than the virtues even of the raoft perfeft men. 
Rogers. 
Take pattern by our fifter ftar, 
Delude at once and blefs our fight; 
When you are feen, be feen from far, 
And chiefly chufe to fhine by night. Swift. 
A fpecimen ; a part fliown as a fample of the reft.—A 
gentleman fends to my fhop for a patte)n of fluff; if he 
like it, he compares the pattern with the whole piece, and 
probably we bargain. Swift. —An inftance ; an example. 
—What God did command touching Canaan, the fame 
concerneth not us otherwife than only as a fearful pat¬ 
tern of his juft difpleafure againft finful nations. Hooker. 
—Any thing cut out in paper to direft the cutting of 
cloth. 
To PAT'TERN, v.a. To make an imitation of fome- 
thing; to copy.—The fbape [of the temple] they fay 
was revealed to Abraham out of heaven,- patterned from 
that which Adam reared in paradife. Sir T. Herbert's 
Travels. 
Ay, fuch a place there is, where we did hunt, 
Pattern'd by that the poet here deferibes. Shaliefpeare. 
To ferve as an example to be followed. Neither fenfe is 
now much in ufe.— That way of patterning a common¬ 
wealth, was mod abfolute ; though he [fir Thomas More] 
hath not fo abfolutely performed it. Sidney's Def. of 
Poefy. 
When I that cenfure him do fo offend, 
Let mine own judgment pattern out my death, 
And nothing come in partial. Sliakefpeare. 
PATTERPUR'RA, a town of Bengal: forty-feven 
miles fouth-weft of Burdwan. 
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PATTER'RA, a town of Bengal: five miles eaft of 
Midnapour. 
PATTERSON, a town of New Jerfey, on the Paflaic : 
fifteen miles north-north-weft of New York. 
PAT'TERSORT, a town of Pruflia, in the circle of 
Natangen : lix miles fouth-weft of Brandenburg. 
PAT'TER WALDT, a town of Pruflia, in the circle 
of Natangen : twenty-four miles eaft-fouth-eaft of Ko- 
nigfberg. 
PATTI, Pati, or Piatti, a feaport town of Sicily, 
in the valley of Demona, fituated on the north coaft, in 
a bay or gulf to which it gives name, built on the ruins 
of Tindaro, It is the fee of a bifhop, fuffragan of Mef- 
fina: thirty-two miles weft of Medina, and forty north 
of Catania. Lat. 38.10. N. Ion. 15. a. E. 
PATTI, a river of Sicily, which runs into the fea 
one mile eaft of Patu. 
PATTIAD', atownof Hindooftan, in Guzerat: thir¬ 
ty-five miles north-weft of Gogo. 
PATTIA'RY, a town of Hindooftan, in Oude: fifty- 
five miles eaft-north-eaft of Agra, and fifty-five north-weft 
of Canoge. Lat. 27. 35. N. Ion. 79. 26. E. 
PATTICAU'T, a town of Hindooftan, in Cochin : 
thirty-eight miles eaft-north-eaft Cranganore. 
PATTIGAM', a town of Hindooftan, in Orifla : thir¬ 
ty miles north of Orifla, and thirty fouth-eaft of Jaypoui. 
PAT'TINGHAM, a village in Staftordf’nire, to the 
weft of Wolverhampton; w'here, in the year 1700, was 
found a large torques of fine gold, two feet long, three 
pounds two ounces weight, in fliape of a bow of a tea¬ 
kettle, and fo flexible that it could be wrapped round the 
arm, and be eafily extended again to its own form. 
Thefe torquefes were worn by the ancient Britons, as 
well as the Romans. Wilkes''s Briti/h Directory. 
PAT'TISON (William), an Englilh poet of genius, 
but whofe imprudence made his life miferable, and his 
deceafe premature, dying of want and the fmall-pox at 
twenty years of age, 1726. He was born at Peafmarfh in 
Stiflex, 1706. Jones's Biog. Did. 
PATTISON’s CREE'K, a river of Virginia, which 
runs into the Potomack in lat. 39. 32. N. Ion. 78. 46. W. 
PATT'MES, a town of Bavaria : ten miles eaft-fouth- 
eaft of Rain, and eight north of Aicha. 
PATTON, a townfhip of Centre-county, in Pennfyl- 
vania, having 297 perfons. 
PAT'TSCHOW, or Patzow, a town of Bohemia, in 
the circle of Bechin : twenty-three miles eaft-north-eaft 
of Bechin, and thirty-eight fouth of Prague. Lat. 49. 
30. N, Ion. 14. 50. E. 
PAT'TUN. See Puttan. 
PATTUNGA'H, a town of Hindooftan, in Orifla : 
eighteen miles north of Sonnepour. 
PATTY,/. [phti, Fr.] A little pie; as, a veal patty. 
It fhould b epaty, but it is ufually pronounced patty. 
PATTY-PAN, J\ A pan to bake a little pie in. 
PATTYA'H, a town of Hindooftan, in Oude : twen¬ 
ty-two miles fouth-fouth-weft of Canoge. 
PATTYPOU'R, a town of Hindooftan in Bahar: fifty- 
two miles fouth-fouth-weft of Patna. 
PATUCK'ET, a village of North America, about four 
miles north-eaft of Providence, in Rhode-ifland; a place 
of confiderable trade and manufactures. Through this 
village runs Patucket or Pawtucket river, which empties 
into Seekhonk river at this place. The river Patucket, 
called in its more northerly courfe Blackllone’s River, 
has a beautiful fall of water, diredtly over which has 
been built a bridge on the line, which divides the com¬ 
monwealth of Maflacluifetts from the (late of Rhode 
Ifland ; diftant about forty miles fouth by weft from 
Bolton. 
PATUL'CIUS, a furname of Janus, which he received 
a pateo, becaufe the doors of his temple were always 
“open” in the time of war. Some fup-pofe that he re¬ 
ceived it becaufe he prefided over gates, or becaufe the 
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