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.

A saucerlike vessel of earthenware or metal, used by the Greeks and Romans in libations and sacrifices.

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.

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.

Originally, a member of any of the families constituting the populus Romanus, or body of Roman citizens, before the development of the plebeian order; later, one who, by right of birth or by special privilege conferred, belonged to the nobility.

The rank or character of patricians.

The patrician class; the aristocracy; also, the office of patriarch.

Of or pertaining to patricide; parricidal.

The murderer of his father.

one related on the father's side.

The line of descent traced through the paternal side of the family.

tracing descent through the male line; as, a patrilineal society.

Of or pertaining to a patrimony; inherited from ancestors; as, a patrimonial estate.

By inheritance.

A right or estate inherited from one's father; or, in a larger sense, from any ancestor.

Becoming to a patriot; patriotic.

Inspired by patriotism; actuated by love of one's country; zealously and unselfishly devoted to the service of one's country; as, a patriotic statesman, vigilance.

Patriotic; that pertains to a patriot.

Love of country; devotion to the welfare of one's country; the virtues and actions of a patriot; the passion which inspires one to serve one's country.

One of a body of believers in the early church who denied the independent pre/xistent personality of Christ, and who, accordingly, held that the Father suffered in the Son; a monarchian.

One versed in patristics.

Of or pertaining to the Fathers of the Christian church.

That departnent of historical theology which treats of the lives and doctrines of the Fathers of the church.

To imitate one's father.

To support; to patronize.

The act of patrocinating or patronizing.

See Patrocination.

A going of the rounds along the chain of sentinels and between the posts, by a guard, usually consisting of three or four men, to insure greater security from attacks on the outposts. A movement, by a small body of troops beyond the line of outposts, to explore the country and gain intelligence of the enemy's whereabouts. The guard or men who go the rounds for observation; a detachment whose duty it is to patrol.

An enclosed truck used by police to transport prisoners.

See Patrol, n. v.

An individual or a member of a group that patrols an area.

The activity of going around or through an area at regular intervals for security purposes.

One who patrols; a watchman; especially, a policeman who patrols a particular precinct of a town or city.

Doing the duty of a patron; giving aid or protection; tutelary.

To act as a patron of; to maintain; to defend.

Patron; protecting; favoring.

The right or duty of a patron; patronage.

A female patron or helper.

The act of patronizing; patronage; support.

To act as patron toward; to support; to countenance; to favor; to aid.

One who patronizes.