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- English Word Patache Definition A tender to a fleet, formerly used for conveying men, orders, or treasure.
- English Word Patacoon Definition See Pataca.
- English Word Patagia Definition of Patagium
- English Word Patagium Definition In bats, an expansion of the integument uniting the fore limb with the body and extending between the elongated fingers to form the wing; in birds, the similar fold of integument uniting the fore limb with the body.
- English Word Patagium Definition One of a pair of small vesicular organs situated at the bases of the anterior wings of lepidopterous insects. See Illust. of Butterfly.
- English Word Patagonian Definition Of or pertaining to Patagonia.
- English Word Patagonian Definition A native of Patagonia.
- English Word Patamar Definition A vessel resembling a grab, used in the coasting trade of Bombay and Ceylon.
- English Word Patas Definition A West African long-tailed monkey (Cercopithecus ruber); the red monkey.
- English Word Patavinity Definition The use of local or provincial words, as in the peculiar style or diction of Livy, the Roman historian; -- so called from Patavium, now Padua, the place of Livy's nativity.
- English Word Patch Definition A piece of cloth, or other suitable material, sewed or otherwise fixed upon a garment to repair or strengthen it, esp. upon an old garment to cover a hole.
- English Word Patch Definition A small piece of anything used to repair a breach; as, a patch on a kettle, a roof, etc.
- English Word Patch Definition A small piece of black silk stuck on the face, or neck, to hide a defect, or to heighten beauty.
- English Word Patch Definition A piece of greased cloth or leather used as wrapping for a rifle ball, to make it fit the bore.
- English Word Patch Definition Fig.: Anything regarded as a patch; a small piece of ground; a tract; a plot; as, scattered patches of trees or growing corn.
- English Word Patch Definition A block on the muzzle of a gun, to do away with the effect of dispart, in sighting.
- English Word Patch Definition A paltry fellow; a rogue; a ninny; a fool.
- English Word Patch Definition To mend by sewing on a piece or pieces of cloth, leather, or the like; as, to patch a coat.
- English Word Patch Definition To mend with pieces; to repair with pieces festened on; to repair clumsily; as, to patch the roof of a house.
- English Word Patch Definition To adorn, as the face, with a patch or patches.