Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter P - Page 25
Patelliform (a.) Having the form of a patella.
Compare: Patella
Patella (n.) [ C ] (pl. Patellae) (Specialized) 膝蓋骨，髕骨 The bone at the front of the knee joint.
Syn: Kneecap.
Patelliform (a.) (Zool.) Resembling a limpet of the genus Patella.
Patelliform (a.) 盤狀的；杯狀的 Shaped like a dish or pan [syn: {dished}, {dish-shaped}, {patelliform}].
Patellulae (n. pl. ) of Patellula
Patellula (n.) (Zool.) A cuplike sucker on the feet of certain insects.
Paten (n.) A plate. [Obs.]
Paten (n.) (Eccl.) The place on
which the consecrated bread is placed in the Eucharist, or on which the host is
placed during the
Patena (n.) (Eccl.) A paten.
Patena (n.) A grassy expanse in the hill region of Ceylon.
Patency (n.) The condition of being open, enlarged, or spread.
Patency (n.) The state of being patent or evident.
Patency (n.) The openness (lack of obstruction) of a bodily passage or duct.
Patency (n.) The property of being easy to see and understand [syn: {obviousness}, {noticeability}, {noticeableness}, {patency}].
Patent (a.) Open; expanded; evident; apparent; unconcealed; manifest; public; conspicuous.
He had received instructions, both patent and secret. -- Motley.
Patent (a.) Open to public perusal; -- said of a document conferring some right or privilege; as, letters patent. See Letters patent, under 3d {Letter}.
Patent (a.) Appropriated or protected by letters patent; secured by official authority to the exclusive possession, control, and disposal of some person or party; patented; as, a patent right; patent medicines.
Madder . . . in King Charles the First's time, was made a patent commodity. -- Mortimer.
Patent (a.) (Bot.) Spreading; forming a nearly right angle with the steam or branch; as, a patent leaf.
Patent leather, A varnished or lacquered leather, used for boots and shoes, and in carriage and harness work.
Patent office, A government bureau for the examination of inventions and the granting of patents.
Patent right. The exclusive right to an invention, and the control of its manufacture.
Patent right. (Law) The right, granted by the sovereign, of exclusive control of some business of manufacture, or of the sale of certain articles, or of certain offices or prerogatives.
Patent rolls, The registers, or records, of patents.
Patent (n.) A letter patent, or letters patent; an official document, issued by a sovereign power, conferring a right or privilege on some person or party. Specifically:
Patent (n.) A writing securing to an invention.
Patent (n.) A document making a grant and conveyance of public lands.
Four other gentlemen of quality remained mentioned in that patent. -- Fuller.
Note: In the United States, by the act of 1870, patents for inventions are issued for seventeen years, without the privilege of renewal except by act of Congress.
Patent (n.) The right or privilege conferred by such a document; hence, figuratively, a right, privilege, or license of the nature of a patent.
If you are so fond over her iniquity, give her patent to offend. -- Shak.
Patented (imp. & p. p.) of Patent
Patenting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Patent
Patent (v. t.) To grant by patent; to make the subject of a patent; to secure or protect by patent; as, to patent an invention; to patent public lands.
Patent (a.) (Of a bodily tube or passageway) open; affording free passage; "patent ductus arteriosus".
Patent (a.) Clearly revealed to the mind or the senses or judgment; "the effects of the drought are apparent to anyone who sees the parched fields"; "evident hostility"; "manifest disapproval"; "patent advantages"; "made his meaning plain"; "it is plain that he is no reactionary"; "in plain view" [syn: apparent, evident, manifest, patent, plain, unmistakable].
Patent (n.) A document granting an inventor sole rights to an invention [syn: patent, patent of invention].
Patent (n.) An official document granting a right or privilege [syn: patent, letters patent].
Patent (v.) Obtain a patent for; "Should I patent this invention?"
Patent (v.) Grant rights to; grant a patent for.
Patent (v.) Make open to sight or notice; "His behavior has patented an embarrassing fact about him".
Patent, Prussian. () This subject will be considered by taking a view of the persons who may obtain patents; the nature of the patent; and the duration of the right.
Patent, Prussian. () Of the persons who may obtain patents. Prussian citizens or subjects are alone entitled to a patent. Foreigners can not obtain one.
Patent, Prussian. () Nature of the patents. Patents are granted in Prussia for an invention when the thing has been discovered or invented by the applicant. For an improvement, when considerable improvement has been made to a thing before known. And for importation, when the thing has been brought from a foreign country and put in use in the kingdom. Patents may extend over the whole country or only over a particular part.
Patent, Prussian. () Duration of patents. The patent may at the choice of the applicant, be for any period not less than six months nor more than fifteen years.
Patent,Roman. () The Roman patents will be considered by taking a view of the persons to whom they may be granted; the different kinds of patents; the cost of a patent; and the obligations of the patentee.
Patent,Roman. () To whom patents are granted. Every person, whether a citizen of the estates of the pope or foreigner, man or woman, adult or infant, may obtain a patent for an invention, for an improvement, or for importation, by fulfilling the conditions prescribed in order to obtain a grant of such titles. Persons who have received a patent from the Roman government may, afterwards, without any compromise of their rights or privileges, receive a patent in a foreign country.
Patent,Roman. () The different kinds of patents. In the Roman estates there are granted patents for invention, for improvements, and for importations.
Patent,Roman. () Patents for inventions are granted for, 1. A new kind of important culture. 2. A new and useful art, before unknown. 3. A new and useful process of culture or of manufacture. 4. A new natural production. 5. A new application of a means already, known.
Patent,Roman. () Patents for improvements may be granted for any useful improvement made to inventions already known and used in the Roman states.
Patent,Roman. () Patents for importations are granted in two cases, namely: 1.
For the introduction of inventions already patented in a foreign country, and the privilege of which patent yet continues. 2. For the introduction of an invention known and freely used in a foreign country, but not yet used or known in the Roman states.
Patent,Roman. () Cost of a patent. The cost of a patent is fixed at a certain sum per annum, without regard to the length of time for which it may have been granted. It varies in relation to patents for inventions and importation. It is ten Roman crowns per annum for a patent for invention and improvement, and of fifteen crowns a year for a patent for importation.
Patent,Roman. () Obligation of the patentee. He is required to bring into [?] his invention within one year after the grant of the patent, and not to suspend the supply for the space of one year during the time the privilege shall last.
Patent,Roman. () He is required to pay one half of the tax or expense of his patent on receiving his patent, and the other half during the first month of the second portion of its, duration.
Patent, () Construction. That which is open or manifest.
Patent, () This word is usually applied to ambiguities which are said to be latent, or patent.
Patent, () A patent ambiguity is one which is produced by the uncertainty, contradictoriness or deficiency of the language of an instrument, so that no discovery of facts or proof of declaration can restore the doubtful or smothered sense without adding ideas which the actual words will not of themselves sustain. Bac. Max. 99 T. Raym. R. 411; Roberts on Fr. 15.
Patent, () A latent ambiguity may be explained by parol evidence, but the rule is, different with regard to a patent ambiguity, which cannot be explained by parol proof. The following instance has been proposed by the court as a patent ambiguity: "If A B, by deed, give goods to one of the sons of J S, who has several sons, he shall not aver which was intended; for by judgment of law upon this deed, the gift is void for uncertainty, which cannot be supplied by averment." 8 Co. 155 a. And no difference exists between a deed and a will upon this subject. 2 Atk. 239.
Patent, () This rule, which allows an explanation of latent ambiguities, and which forbids the use of parol evidence to explain a patent ambiguity, is difficult of application. It is attended, in some instances, with very minute nicety of discrimination, and becomes a little unsteady in its application. When a bequest is made "to Jones, son of, Jones," or "to Mrs. B," it is not easy to show that the ambiguity which this imperfect designation creates, is not ambiguity arising upon the face of the will, and as such, an ambiguity patent, yet parol evidence is admitted to ascertain the persons intended by those ambiguous terms.
Patent, () The principle upon which parol testimony is admitted in these cases, is probably, in the first of them, a presumption of possible ignorance in the testator of the christian name of the legatee; and in the second, a similar presumption of his being in the habit of calling the person by the name of Mrs. B. Presumptions, which being raised upon the face of the will, may be confirmed and explained by extrinsic evidence. Rob' on. Fr. 15, 27; 2 Vern. 624, 5; 1 Vern. by Raithby, 31, note 2; 1 Rop. Leg. 147; 3 Stark. Ev. 1000; 3 Bro. C. C. 311 2 Atk. 239; 3 Atk. 257; 3 Ves. Jr. 547. Vide articles Ambiguity; Latent.
Patentable (a.) Suitable to be patented; capable of being patented.
Patentee (n.) One to whom a grant is made, or a privilege secured, by patent. -- Bacon.
Patentee (n.) The inventor to whom a patent is issued.
Patentee. () He to whom a patent has been granted. The term is usually applied to one who has obtained letters-patent for a new invention.
Patentee. () His rights are, 1. To make, sell and enjoy the profits, during the existence, of his rights, of the invention or discovery patented. 2. To recover damages for a violation of such rights. 3. To have an injunction to prevent any infringement of such rights.
Patentee. () His duties are to supply the public, upon reasonable terms, with the thing patented.
Patent-hammered (a.) (Stone Cutting) Having a surface dressed by cutting with a hammer the head of which consists of broad thin chisels clamped together.
Patently (adv.) Openly; evidently.
Patently (adv.) Unmistakably (`plain' is often used informally for `plainly'); "the answer is obviously wrong"; "she was in bed and evidently in great pain"; "he was manifestly too important to leave off the guest list"; "it is all patently nonsense"; "she has apparently been living here for some time"; "I thought he owned the property, but apparently not"; "You are plainly wrong"; "he is plain stubborn" [syn: obviously, evidently, manifestly, patently, apparently, plainly, plain].
Paterae (n. pl. ) of Patera
Patera (n.) A saucerlike vessel of earthenware or metal, used by the Greeks and Romans in libations and sacrificies.
Patera (n.) (Arch.) A circular ornament, resembling a dish, often worked in relief on friezes, and the like.
Paterero (n.) See Pederero. [Obs.]
Pederero (n.) (Mil.) A term formerly applied to a short piece of chambered ordnance. [Written also paterero and peterero.]
Pateresfamilias (n. pl. ) of Paterfamilias
Paterfamilias (n.) (Rom. Law) The head of a family; in a large sense, the proprietor of an estate; one who is his own master.
Paternal (a.) Of or pertaining to a father; fatherly; showing the disposition of a father; guiding or instructing as a father; as, paternal care. "Under paternal rule." -- Milton.
Paternal (a.) Received or derived from a father; hereditary; as, a paternal estate.
Their small paternal field of corn. -- Dryden.
Paternal government (Polit. Science), The assumption by the governing power of a quasi-fatherly relation to the people, involving strict and intimate supervision of their business and social concerns, upon the theory that they are incapable of managing their own affairs.
Paternal (a.) Belonging to or inherited from one's father; "spent his childhood on the paternal farm"; "paternal traits".
Paternal (a.) Characteristic of a father [ant: maternal].
Paternal (a.) Relating to or characteristic of or befitting a parent; "parental guidance" [syn: parental, maternal, paternal] [ant: filial].
Paternal (a.) Related on the father's side; "a paternal aunt" [syn: agnate, agnatic, paternal].
Paternal. () That which belongs to the father or comes from him: as, paternal power, paternal relation, paternal estate, paternal line. Vide Line.
Paternalism (n.) (Polit. Science) The theory or practice of paternal government. See Paternal government, under Paternal. -- London Times.
Paternalism (n.) The attitude (of a person or a government) that subordinates should be controlled in a fatherly way for their own good.
Paternally (adv.) In a paternal manner.
Paternally (adv.) In a paternal manner; "he behaves very paternally toward his young bride".
Paternity (n.) The relation of a father to his child; fathership; fatherhood; family headship; as, the divine paternity.
The world, while it had scarcity of people, underwent no other dominion than paternity and eldership. -- Sir W. Raleigh.
Paternity (n.) Derivation or descent from a father; male parentage; as, the paternity of a child.
Paternity (n.) Origin; authorship.
The paternity of these novels was . . . disputed. -- Sir W. Scott.
Paternity (n.) The state of being a father; "tests were conducted to determine paternity".
Paternity (n.) The kinship relation between an offspring and the father [syn: fatherhood, paternity].
Paternity (n.) The act of initiating a new idea or theory or writing; "the authorship of the theory is disputed" [syn: authorship, paternity].
Paternity, () The state or condition of a father.
Paternity, () The husband is prima facie presumed to be the father of his wife's children, born during coverture, or within a competent time afterwards pater is est quem nuptim demonstrant. 7 N. S. 553. But this presumption may be rebutted by showing circumstances which render it impossible that the husband can be the father. 6 Binn. 283; 1 Browne's R. Appx. xlvii.; Hardin's R. 479; 8 East, R. 193; Stra. 51, 940. 4 T. R; 356;. 2 M. & K. 349; 3 Paige's R. 139; I Sim. & Stu. 150; Turn. & Russ. 138; 1 Bouv. Inst. n. 302, et seq.
Paternity, () The declarations of both or one of the spouses, however, cannot affect the condition of a child born during the marriage. 7 N. S. 553; 3 Paige's R. 139. Vide Bastard;. Bastardy;, Legitimacy; Maternity; Pregnancy.
Paternoster (n.) The Lord's prayer, so called from the first two words of the Latin version.
Paternoster (n.) (Arch.) A beadlike ornament in moldings.
Paternoster (n.) (Angling) A line with a row of hooks and bead-shaped sinkers.
Paternoster (n.) (Mining) An elevator of an inclined endless traveling chain or belt bearing buckets or shelves which ascend on one side loaded, and empty themselves at the top.
Paternoster pump, Paternoster wheel, A chain pump; a noria.
Paternoster while, The space of time required for repeating a paternoster. -- Udall.
Paternoster (n.) (Roman Catholic Church) the Lord's Prayer in Latin; translates as `our father'.
Paternoster (n.) A type of lift having a chain of open compartments that move continually in an endless loop so that (agile) passengers can step on or off at each floor.
Paths (n. pl. ) of Path
Path (n.) A trodden way; a footway.
The dewy paths of meadows we will tread. -- Dryden.
Path (n.) A way, course, or track, in which anything moves or has moved; route; passage; an established way; as, the path of a meteor, of a caravan, of a storm, of a pestilence. Also used figuratively, of a course of life or action.
All the paths of the Lord are mercy and truth. -- Ps. xxv. 10.
The paths of glory lead but to the grave. -- Gray.
Pathed (imp. & p. p.) of Path
Pathing (pr.p. & vb. n.) of Path
Path (v. t.) To make a path in, or on (something), or for (some one). [R.] "Pathing young Henry's unadvised ways." -- Drayton.
Path (v. i.) To walk or go. [R.] -- Shak.
Path (n.) A course of conduct; "the path of virtue"; "we went our separate ways"; "our paths in life led us apart"; "genius usually follows a revolutionary path" [syn: way, path, way of life].
Path (n.) A way especially designed for a particular use.
Path (n.) An established line of travel or access [syn: path, route, itinerary].
Path (n.) A line or route along which something travels or moves; "the hurricane demolished houses in its path"; "the track of an animal"; "the course of the river" [syn: path, track, course].
Path (n.) A bang path or explicitly routed Internet address; a node-by-node specification of a link between two machines. Though these are now obsolete as a form of addressing, they still show up in diagnostics and trace headers occasionally (e.g. in NNTP headers).
Path (n.) [Unix] A filename, fully specified relative to the root directory (as opposed to relative to the current directory; the latter is sometimes called a relative path). This is also called a pathname.
Path (n.) [Unix and MS-DOS/Windows] The search path, an environment variable specifying the directories in which the shell (COMMAND.COM, under MS-DOS) should look for commands. Other, similar constructs abound under Unix (for example, the C preprocessor has a search path it uses in looking for # include files).
Path, () Pathname.
Path, () A bang path or explicitly routed Internet address; a node-by-node specification of a link between two machines.
Path, () The list of directories the kernel (under Unix) or the command interpreter (under MS-DOS) searches for executables. It is stored as part of the environment in both operating systems.
Other, similar constructs abound under Unix; the C preprocessor, for example, uses such a search path to locate "#include" files. [{Jargon File] (1996-11-21)
Pathematic (a.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, emotion or suffering. [R.] -- Chalmers.
Pathetic (a.) Expressing or showing anger; passionate.
Pathetic (a.) Affecting or moving the tender emotions, esp. pity or grief; full of pathos; as, a pathetic song or story. "Pathetic action." -- Macaulay.
No theory of the passions can teach a man to be pathetic. -- E. Porter.
Pathetic muscle (Anat.), The superior oblique muscle of the eye.
Pathetic nerve (Anat.), The fourth cranial, or trochlear, nerve, which supplies the superior oblique, or pathetic, muscle of the eye.
The pathetic, A style or manner adapted to arouse the tender emotions.
Pathetic (a.) Deserving or inciting pity; "a hapless victim"; "miserable victims of war"; "the shabby room struck her as extraordinarily pathetic"- Galsworthy; "piteous appeals for help"; "pitiable homeless children"; "a pitiful fate"; "Oh, you poor thing"; "his poor distorted limbs"; "a wretched life" [syn: hapless, miserable, misfortunate, pathetic, piteous, pitiable, pitiful, poor, wretched].
Pathetic (a.) Inspiring mixed contempt and pity; "their efforts were pathetic"; "pitiable lack of character"; "pitiful exhibition of cowardice" [syn: pathetic, pitiable, pitiful].
Pathetic (a.) Inspiring scornful pity; "how silly an ardent and unsuccessful wooer can be especially if he is getting on in years"- Dashiell Hammett [syn: pathetic, ridiculous, silly].
Pathetical (a.) Pathetic. [R.] -- Pa*thet"ic*al*ly, adv. -- Pa*thet"ic*al*ness, n.
Pathetism (n.) See Mesmerism. -- L. Sunderland.
Pathfinder (n.) One who discovers a way or path; one who explores untraversed regions. The cow is the true pathfinder and pathmaker. -- J. Burroughs.
Pathfinder (n.) Someone who can find paths through unexplored territory [syn: scout, pathfinder, guide].
Pathic (n.) A male who submits to the crime against nature; a catamite. [R.] -- B. Jonson.
Note: The term "crime against nature" to refer to homosexual activity is now (2002) seldom used except by religious conservatives. It was in the 1913 Webster, and is left here for historical purposes.
Pathic (a.) Passive; suffering.
Pathless (a.) Having no beaten path or way; untrodden; impenetrable; as, pathless woods.
Trough the heavens' wide, pathless way. -- Milton.
Pathless (a.) Lacking pathways; "trackless wilderness"; "roadless areas" [syn: pathless, roadless, trackless, untracked, untrod, untrodden].
Pathmaker (n.) One who, or that which, makes a way or path.
Pathogen (n.) [Medicine] 病原體 A bacterium, virus, or other microorganism that can cause disease.
‘Symptoms and signs of influenza in children are not specific and can mimic a range of other common respiratory viral pathogens.’
Pathogen, Pathogene (n.) (Biol.) 病原體 Any microorganism which causes disease; a pathogenic organism; an infectious microorganism; a bacterium, virus, or other agent which can cause disease by infection; -- opposed to zymogene. The spelling pathogene is now archaic.
Pathogen (n.) Any disease-producing agent (especially a virus or bacterium or other microorganism).
Pathogenesis (n.) (Med.) Pathogeny.
Pathogenetic (a.) (Med.) Pathogenic.
Pathogenic (a.) (Med. & Biol.) Of or pertaining to pathogeny; producting disease; as, a pathogenic organism; a pathogenic bacterium.
Pathogenic (a.) Able to cause disease; "infective agents"; "pathogenic bacteria" [syn: infective, morbific, pathogenic].
Pathogeny (n.) (Med.) The generation, and method of development, of disease; as, the pathogeny of yellow fever is unsettled.
Pathogeny (n.) (Med.) That branch of pathology which treats of the generation and development of disease.
Pathognomonic (a.) (Med.) Specially or decisively characteristic of a disease; indicating with certainty a disease; as, a pathognomonic symptom.
The true pathognomonic sign of love jealousy. -- Arbuthnot.
Pathognomy (n.) Expression of the passions; the science of the signs by which human passions are indicated. Pathologic
Pathologic (a.) Alt. of Pathological
Pathological (a.) Of or pertaining to pathology.
Pathological (a.) (Med.) caused by or due to disease; abnormal; morbid; as, pathological tissue; a pathological condition. -- Path`o*log"ic*al*ly, adv.
Pathologic (a.) Caused by or altered by or manifesting disease or pathology; "diseased tonsils"; "a morbid growth"; "pathologic tissue"; "pathological bodily processes" [syn: diseased, morbid, pathologic, pathological].
Pathologic (a.) Of or relating to the practice of pathology; "pathological laboratory" [syn: pathological, pathologic].
Pathologist (n.) One skilled in pathology; an investigator in pathology; as, the pathologist of a hospital, whose duty it is to determine the causes of the diseases.
Pathologist (n.) A doctor who specializes in medical diagnosis [syn: diagnostician, pathologist].
Pathologies (n. pl. ) of Pathology
Pathology (n.) (Med.) 病理學；病理；病狀 The science which treats of diseases, their nature, causes, progress, symptoms, etc.
Note: Pathology is general or special, according as it treats of disease or morbid processes in general, or of particular diseases; it is also subdivided into internal and external, or medical and surgical pathology. Its departments are nosology, [ae]tiology, morbid anatomy, symptomatology, and therapeutics, which treat respectively of the classification, causation, organic changes, symptoms, and cure of diseases.
Pathology (n.) (Med.) The condition of an organ, tissue, or fluid produced by disease.
Celluar pathology, A theory that gives prominence to the vital action of cells in the healthy and diseased functions of the body. -- Virchow.
-ias (n. pl. ) of Pathopoeia
Pathopoeia (n.) (Rhet.) A speech, or figure of speech, designed to move the passion. -- Smart.
Pathos (n.) That quality or property of anything which touches the feelings or excites emotions and passions, esp., that which awakens tender emotions, such as pity, sorrow, and the like; contagious warmth of feeling, action, or expression; pathetic quality; as, the pathos of a picture, of a poem, or of a cry.
The combination of incident, and the pathos of catastrophe. -- T. Warton.
Pathos (n.) The quality or character of those emotions, traits, or experiences which are personal, and therefore restricted and evanescent; transitory and idiosyncratic dispositions or feelings as distinguished from those which are universal and deep-seated in character; -- opposed to ethos.
Pathos (n.) Suffering; the enduring of active stress or affliction.
Pathway (n.) A footpath; a beaten track; any path or course. Also used figuratively. -- Shak.
In the way of righteousness is life; and in the pathway thereof is no death. -- Prov. xii. 28.
We tread the pathway arm in arm. -- Sir W. Scott.
Patible (a.) Sufferable; tolerable; endurable. [Obs.] -- Bailey.
Patibulary (a.) Of or pertaining to the gallows, or to execution. [R.] -- Carlyle.
Patibulated (a.) Hanged on a gallows. [R.]
Patience (n.) The state or quality of being patient; the power of suffering with fortitude; uncomplaining endurance of evils or wrongs, as toil, pain, poverty, insult, oppression, calamity, etc.
Strengthened with all might, . . . unto all patience and long-suffering. -- Col. i. 11.
I must have patience to endure the load. -- Shak.
Who hath learned lowliness From his Lord's cradle, patience from his cross. -- Keble.
Patience (n.) The act or power of calmly or contentedly waiting for something due or hoped for; forbearance.
Have patience with me, and I will pay thee all. -- Matt. xviii. 29.
Patience (n.) Constancy in labor or application; perseverance.
He learned with patience, and with meekness taught. -- Harte.
Patience (n.) Sufferance; permission. [Obs.] -- Hooker.
They stay upon your patience. -- Shak.
Patience (n.) (Bot.) A kind of dock ({Rumex Patientia), less common in America than in Europe; monk's rhubarb.
Patience (n.) (Card Playing) Solitaire.
Syn: Patience, Resignation.
Usage: Patience implies the quietness or self-possession of one's own spirit under sufferings, provocations, etc.; resignation implies submission to the will of another. The Stoic may have patience; the Christian should have both patience and resignation.
Compare: Monk
Monk (n.) A man who retires from the ordinary temporal concerns of the world, and devotes himself to religion; one of a religious community of men inhabiting a monastery, and bound by vows to a life of chastity, obedience, and poverty. "A monk out of his cloister." -- Chaucer.
Monks in some respects agree with regulars, as in the substantial vows of religion; but in other respects monks and regulars differ; for that regulars, vows excepted, are not tied up to so strict a rule of life as monks are. -- Ayliffe.
Monk (n.) (Print.) A blotch or spot of ink on a printed page, caused by the ink not being properly distributed. It is distinguished from a friar, or white spot caused by a deficiency of ink.
Monk (n.) A piece of tinder made of agaric, used in firing the powder hose or train of a mine.
Monk (n.) (Zool) (a) A South American monkey ({Pithecia monachus); also applied to other species, as Cebus xanthocephalus.
Monk (n.) (b) The European bullfinch
Monk bat (Zool.), A South American and West Indian bat ({Molossus nasutus); -- so called because the males live in communities by themselves.
Monk bird (Zool.), The friar bird.
Monk seal (Zool.), A species of seal ({Monachus albiventer) inhabiting the Black Sea, the Mediterranean Sea, and the adjacent parts of the Atlantic.
Monk's rhubarb (Bot.), A kind of dock; -- also called patience+({Rumex+Patientia">patience ({Rumex Patientia).
Patient (a.) Having the quality of enduring; physically able to suffer or bear.
Patient of severest toil and hardship. -- Bp. Fell.
Patient (a.) Undergoing pains, trails, or the like, without murmuring or fretfulness; bearing up with equanimity against trouble; long-suffering.
Patient (a.) Constant in pursuit or exertion; persevering; calmly diligent; as, patient endeavor.
Whatever I have done is due to patient thought. -- Sir I. Newton.
Patient (a.) Expectant with calmness, or without discontent; not hasty; not overeager; composed.
Not patient to expect the turns of fate. -- Prior.
Patient (a.) Forbearing; long-suffering.
Be patient toward all men. -- 1 Thess. v. 14.
Patient (n.) One who, or that which, is passively affected; a passive recipient.
Malice is a passion so impetuous and precipitate that it often involves the agent and the patient. -- Gov. of Tongue.
Patient (n.) A person under medical or surgical treatment; -- correlative to physician or nurse.
Like a physician, . . . seeing his patient in a pestilent fever. -- Sir P. Sidney.
In patient, A patient who receives lodging and food treatment, in a hospital or an infirmary.
Out patient, One who receives advice and medicine, or treatment, from an infirmary.
Patient (v. t.) To compose, to calm. [Obs.] "Patient yourself, madam." -- Shak.
Patiently (adv.) In a patient manner. -- Cowper. Patin
Compare: Paten
Paten (n.) A plate. [Obs.]
Paten (n.) (Eccl.) The place on which the consecrated bread is placed in the Eucharist, or on which the host is placed during the Mass. It is usually small, and formed as to fit the chalice, or cup, as a cover. [Written also patin, patine.]
Patin (n.) Alt. of Patine
Patine (n.) A plate. See Paten. "Inlaid with patines of bright gold." --Shak.
Patina (n.) A dish or plate of metal or earthenware; a patella.
Patina (n.) (Fine Arts) The color or incrustation which age gives to works of art; especially, the green rust which covers ancient bronzes, coins, and medals. -- Fairholt.
Patio (n.) (Metal) A paved yard or floor where ores are cleaned and sorted, or where ore, salt, mercury, etc., are trampled by horses, to effect intermixture and amalgamation.
Note: The patio process is used to reduce silver ores by amalgamation.
Patio (n.) In Spain, Spanish America, etc., a court or courtyard of a house or other building; esp., an inner court open to the sky.
Patio (n.) A usually paved area adjacent to a dwelling, used for outdoor lounging, dining, receptions of guests, etc.
Patly (adv.) Fitly; seasonably. -- Barrow.
Patness (n.) Fitness or appropriateness; striking suitableness; convenience.