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Pas"ture, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Pastured (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Pasturing.] To feed, esp. to feed on growing grass; to supply grass as food for; as, the farmer pastures fifty oxen; the land will pasture forty cows.

Pas"ture, v. i. To feed on growing grass; to graze.

Pas"ture*less, a. Destitute of pasture. Milton.

Pas"tur*er (?), n. One who pastures; one who takes cattle to graze. See Agister.

Pas"ty (?), a. Like paste, as in color, softness, stickness. "A pasty complexion." G. Eliot.

Pas"ty, n.; pl. Pasties (#). [OF. pastÈ, F. p‚tÈ. See Paste, and cf. Patty.] 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. "If ye pinch me like a pasty." Shak. "Apple pasties." Dickens.

A large pasty baked in a pewter platter.

Sir W. Scott.

Pat (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Patted (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Patting.] [Cf. G. patschen, Prov. G. patzen, to strike, tap.] To strike gently with the fingers or hand; to stroke lightly; to tap; as, to pat a dog.

Gay pats my shoulder, and you vanish quite.

Pope.

Pat, n. 1. A light, quik blow or stroke with the fingers or hand; a tap.

2. A small mass, as of butter, shaped by pats.

It looked like a tessellated work of pats of butter.

Dickens.

Pat, a. [Cf. pat a light blow, D. te pas convenient, pat, where pas is fr. F. passer to pass.] Exactly suitable; fit; convenient; timely. "Pat allusion." Barrow.

Pat, adv. In a pat manner.

I foresaw then 't would come in pat hereafter.

Sterne.

||Pa*ta"ca (?), n. [Sp.] The Spanish dollar; -- called also patacoon. ||[Obs.]

||Pa`tache" (?), n. [F. & Sp. patache, P. patacho.] (Naut.) A tender to ||a fleet, formerly used for conveying men, orders, or treasure. [Spain ||& Portugal]

Pa`ta*coon" (?), n. [Sp.] See Pataca.

||Pa*ta"gi*um (?), n.; pl. Patagia (#). [L., an edge or border.] 1. ||(Anat.) 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.

2. (Zoˆl.) One of a pair of small vesicular organs situated at the bases of the anterior wings of lepidopterous insects. See Illust. of Butterfly.

Pat`a*go"ni*an (?), a. Of or pertaining to Patagonia. -- n. A native of Patagonia.

Pat"a*mar (?), n. [From the native name.] (Naut.) A vessel resembling a grab, used in the coasting trade of Bombay and Ceylon. [Written also pattemar.]

Pa*tas" (?), n. (Zoˆl.) A West African long-tailed monkey (Cercopithecus ruber); the red monkey.

Pat`a*vin"i*ty (?), n. [L. patavinitas, fr. Patavium: cf. F. patavinitÈ] 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.