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.

Showing condescending favor; assuming the manner of airs of a superior toward another.

Destitute of a patron.

That branch of knowledge which deals with personal names and their origin; the study of patronymics.

A modification of the father's name borne by the son; a name derived from that of a parent or ancestor; as, Pelides, the son of Peleus; Johnson, the son of John; Macdonald, the son of Donald; Paulowitz, the son of Paul; also, the surname of a family; the family name.

Same as Patronymic.

One of the proprietors of certain tracts of land with manorial privileges and right of entail, under the old Dutch governments of New York and New Jersey.

The office of a patroon.

Narrow at the inner, and very broad at the other, end, or having its arms of that shape; -- said of a cross. See Illust. (8) of Cross.

See Patamar.

A clog or sole of wood, usually supported by an iron ring, worn to raise the feet from the wet or the mud.

Wearing pattens.

A quick succession of slight sounds; as, the patter of rain; the patter of little feet.

One who patters, or talks glibly; specifically, a street peddler.

To make or design (anything) by, from, or after, something that serves as a pattern; to copy; to model; to imitate.

A technique in automated data analysis, usually performed on a computer, by which a group of characteristic properties of an unknown object is compared with the comparable groups of characteristics of a set of known objects, to discover the idenity or proper classification of the unknown object.

Having describable patterns, especially patterns of colors.

resembling a pattern or shape or outline.

Someone who makes patterns (as for sewing or carpentery or metalworking).

A little pie.

A pan for baking patties.

Open; expanded; slightly spreading; having the parts loose or dispersed; as, a patulous calyx; a patulous cluster of flowers.

See Pah.

Uttering few words; brief in speech.

Brevity in speech.

Having few spirals, or whorls; as, a paucispiral operculum or shell.

Fewness; smallness of number; scarcity; rarity.

The scup. See Porgy, and Scup.

The menhaden; -- called also poghaden.

An Italian silver coin. See Paolo.

A piece of armor covering the shoulder at the junction of the body piece and arm piece.

A follower of Paul of Samosata, a bishop of Antioch in the third century, who was deposed for denying the divinity of Christ.

See Tarpaulin.

Of or pertaining to the apostle Paul, or his writings; resembling, or conforming to, the writings of Paul; as, the Pauline epistles; Pauline doctrine.

A member of The Institute of the Missionary Priests of St. Paul the Apostle, founded in 1858 by the Rev. I. T. Hecker of New York. The majority of the members were formerly Protestants.

A genus of trees of the order Scrophulariace/, consisting of one species, Paulownia imperialis.

To palm off by fraud; to cheat at cards.

The pansy.

To pierce or rip the belly of; to eviscerate; to disembowel.

Pot-bellied.

A kind of bread. See Pone.

A very poor person; one without any means of support, especially one dependent on private or public charity. Also used adjectively; as, pauper immigrants, pauper labor.

The state of being a pauper; the state of indigent persons requiring support from the community.

The act or process of reducing to pauperism.

To reduce to pauperism; as, to pauperize the peasantry.

An order of small myriapods having only nine pairs of legs and destitute of trache/.

To cause to stop or rest; -- used reflexively.

One who pauses.

With pauses; haltingly.

A curassow (Ourax pauxi), which, in South America, is often domesticated.

See Paviage.

A stately and formal Spanish dance for which full state costume is worn; -- so called from the resemblance of its movements to those of the peacock.

To lay or cover with stone, brick, or other material, so as to make a firm, level, or convenient surface for vehicles, horses, carriages, or persons on foot, to travel on; to floor with brick, stone, or other solid material; as, to pave a street; to pave a court.

covered with a firm surface; -- of pathways or roadways.

To furnish with a pavement; to pave.

See Pavan.

One who paves; one who lays a pavement.

A canvas screen, formerly sometimes extended along the side of a vessel in a naval engagement, to conceal from the enemy the operations on board.

Pavise.

A contribution or a tax for paving streets or highways.

See Pavan.

Timid; fearful.

Timidity.

A paver.

A glucoside found in species of the genus Pavia of the Horse-chestnut family.

To furnish or cover with, or shelter in, a tent or tents.

See Pavan.

The act or process of laying a pavement, or covering some place with a pavement.

One who paves; a paver.

See pavior{2}.

A large heavy oblong shield covering the whole body, carried by a pavisor, who sometimes also screened an archer with it. It was originally carried but sometimes set up in permanent position

A soldier who carried a pavise.

Of or pertaining to Ivan Pavlov, or the principles of conditioned responses that he investigated; as, a Pavlovian response.

A genus of birds, including the peacocks.

A small triangular flag, esp. one attached to a knight's lance; a pennon.

A peacock.

Of or pertaining to a peacock.

Like, or pertaining to, the genus Pavo.

To pass the paw over; to stroke or handle with the paws; hence, to handle fondly or rudely.

A small lobster.

Arch; cunning; sly.

To stop with a pawl; to drop the pawls off.

To give or deposit in pledge, or as security for the payment of money borrowed; to put in pawn; to pledge; as, to pawn one's watch.

Capable of being pawned.

One who makes a business of lending money on the security of personal property pledged or deposited in his keeping.

The business of a pawnbroker.

One or two whom a pledge is delivered as security; one who takes anything in pawn.

A tribe of Indians (called also Loups) who formerly occupied the region of the Platte river, but now (1890) live mostly in the Indian Territory (Oklahoma). The term is often used in a wider sense to include also the related tribes of Rickarees and Wichitas. Called also Pani.

One who pawns or pledges anything as security for the payment of borrowed money or of a debt.

Same as Papaya.

The kiss of peace; also, the embrace in the sanctuary now substituted for it at High Mass in Roman Catholic churches.

Resembling a little stake.