The quality of being past.

A shepherd; one who has the care of flocks and herds.

The office, jurisdiction, or duty, of a pastor; pastorate.

A poem describing the life and manners of shepherds; a poem in which the speakers assume the character of shepherds; an idyl; a bucolic.

A composition in a soft, rural style, generally in 6-8 or 12-8 time.

In a pastoral or rural manner.

The office, state, or jurisdiction of a pastor.

A parsonage; -- so called in some Baptist churches.

Having no pastor.

An insignificant pastor.

Appropriate to a pastor.

Pastorate.

A highly seasoned cut of smoked beef.

The place where pastry is made.

Fit for pasture.

Grazing ground; grass land used for pasturing; pasture.

To feed on growing grass; to graze.

A field covered with grass or herbage and suitable for grazing by livestock; pasture.

Destitute of pasture.

One who pastures; one who takes cattle to graze. See Agister.

A pie consisting usually of meat wholly surrounded with a crust made of a sheet of paste, and often baked without a dish; a meat pie.

In a pat manner.

The Spanish dollar; -- called also patacoon.

A tender to a fleet, formerly used for conveying men, orders, or treasure.

See Pataca.

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.

Of or pertaining to Patagonia. A native of Patagonia.

A vessel resembling a grab, used in the coasting trade of Bombay and Ceylon.

A West African long-tailed monkey (Cercopithecus ruber); the red monkey.

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.

To mend by sewing on a piece or pieces of cloth, leather, or the like; as, to patch a coat.

To mend by patching; to patch; -- also used figuratively; as, to patch up frayed relations bewteen parties.

A circuit board where circuits are completed and modified by making connections with patchcords.

A conducting cord with a plug at each end, used to make connections between circuit terminals at a patchboard.

Mended, usually clumsily by covering a hole with a patch; as, patched jeans.

One who patches or botches.

Botchery; covering of defects; bungling; hypocrisy.

Unevenness in quality or performance.

The act of mending a hole in a garment by sewing a patch over it.

Knavishly; deceitfully.

A small shrubby mintlike plant (Pogostemon cablin syn. Pogostemon Patchouli) of the East Indies, yielding an essential oil from which a highly valued perfume is made.

Work composed of pieces sewed together, esp. pieces of various colors and figures; hence, anything put together of incongruous or ill-adapted parts; something irregularly or clumsily composed; a thing patched up.

Full of, or covered with, patches; abounding in patches.

The head of a person; the top, or crown, of the head.

Having a pate; -- used only in composition; as, long-pated; shallow-pated.

See Pattee.

The act of opening, disclosing, or manifesting; open declaration.

A large flat-bottomed trading boat peculiar to the river Ganges; -- called also puteli.

A small dish, pan, or vase.

Of or pertaining to the patella, or kneecap.

Having the form of a patella.

A cuplike sucker on the feet of certain insects.

A plate.

A grassy expanse in the hill region of Ceylon.

The condition of being open, enlarged, or spread.

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.

Having a surface dressed by cutting with a hammer the head of which consists of broad thin chisels clamped together.

Suitable to be patented; capable of being patented.

One to whom a grant is made, or a privilege secured, by patent.

Openly; evidently.

See Pederero.

The head of a family; in a large sense, the proprietor of an estate; one who is his own master.

Of or pertaining to a father; fatherly; showing the disposition of a father; guiding or instructing as a father; as, paternal care.

The theory or practice of paternal government. See Paternal government, under Paternal.

Benevolent but sometimes intrusive; -- used often of governments and the administration of large organizations. See paternal government.

In a paternal manner.

The relation of a father to his child; fathership; fatherhood; family headship; as, the divine paternity.

The Lord's prayer, so called from the first two words of the Latin version.

A religious as well as a secular designation applied to rulers of some of the city states of ancient Chaldea, as Lagash or Shirpurla, who were conceived to be direct representatives of the tutelary god of the place.

A trodden way; a footway.

To walk or go.

A native or inhabitant of Afghanistan, especially of the Pashtun tribes of southern Afghanistan.

Of, pertaining to, or designating, emotion or suffering.

Expressing or showing anger; passionate.

Pathetic.

See Mesmerism.

One who discovers a way or path; one who explores untraversed regions.

Passive; suffering.

Having no beaten path or way; untrodden; impenetrable; as, pathless woods.

One who, or that which, makes a way or path.

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.

Pathogeny.

Pathogenic.

Of or pertaining to pathogeny; producting disease; as, a pathogenic organism; a pathogenic bacterium.

The generation, and method of development, of disease; as, the pathogeny of yellow fever is unsettled. That branch of pathology which treats of the generation and development of disease.

Specially or decisively characteristic of a disease; indicating with certainty a disease; as, a pathognomonic symptom.

Expression of the passions; the science of the signs by which human passions are indicated.

Of or pertaining to pathology.

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.

The science which treats of diseases, their nature, causes, progress, symptoms, etc.

A speech, or figure of speech, designed to move the passion.

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.

A footpath; a beaten track; any path or course. Also used figuratively.

Sufferable; tolerable; endurable.

Of or pertaining to the gallows, or to execution.

Hanged on a gallows.

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.

To compose, to calm.

In a patient manner.

A dish or plate of metal or earthenware; a patella.

to coat with a patina; to patinize.

A plate. See Paten.

to coat with a patina.

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.

Pastry.

Fitly; seasonably.

Fitness or appropriateness; striking suitableness; convenience.

A dialect peculiar to the illiterate classes; a provincial form of speech.

An American Indian game analogous to dice, probably originally a method of divination.

Having the arms growing broader and floriated toward the end; -- said of a cross. See Illust. 9 of Cross.

Derived from the name of a country, and designating an inhabitant of the country; gentile; -- said of a noun. A patrial noun. Thus Romanus, a Roman, and Troas, a woman of Troy, are patrial nouns, or patrials.

The father and ruler of a family; one who governs his family or descendants by paternal right; -- usually applied to heads of families in ancient history, especially in Biblical and Jewish history to those who lived before the time of Moses.

Of or pertaining to a patriarch or to patriarchs; possessed by, or subject to, patriarchs; as, patriarchal authority or jurisdiction; a patriarchal see; a patriarchal church.

The office, dignity, or jurisdiction of a patriarch.

The office or jurisdiction of a patriarch; patriarchate.

Patriarchal.

Government by a patriarch, or the head of a family.

A patriarchate.

The jurisdiction of a patriarch; patriarchship.

centered upon the father.