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||Pa`tÈ" (?), a. (Her.) See PattÈ.

||Pa`tÈ" (?), n. [F. p‚tÈ.] 1. A pie. See Patty.

2. (Fort.) A kind of platform with a parapet, usually of an oval form, and generally erected in marshy grounds to cover a gate of a fortified place. [R.]

Pate (?), n. [Cf. LG. & Prov. G. pattkopf, patzkopf, scabby head; patt, patz, scab + kopf head.] 1. The head of a person; the top, or crown, of the head. [Now generally used in contempt or ridicule.]

His mischief shall return upon his own head, and his violent dealing shall come down upon his own pate.

Ps. vii. 16.

Fat paunches have lean pate.

Shak.

2. The skin of a calf's head.

Pat"ed (?), a. Having a pate; -- used only in composition; as, long-pated; shallow- pated.

Pa*tee" (?), n. See Pattee.

Pat`e*fac"tion (?), n. [L. patefactio, fr. patefacere to open; patere to lie open + facere to make.] The act of opening, disclosing, or manifesting; open declaration. Jer. Taylor.

||Pat"e*la (?), n. [Hind. patel.] A large flat-bottomed trading boat ||peculiar to the river Ganges; -- called also puteli.

||Pa*tel"la (?), n.; pl. PatellÊ (#). [L., a small pan, the kneepan, ||dim. of patina, patena, a pan, dish.] 1. A small dish, pan, or vase.

2. (Anat.) The kneepan; the cap of the knee.

3. (Zoˆl.) A genus of marine gastropods, including many species of limpets. The shell has the form of a flattened cone. The common European limpet (Patella vulgata) is largely used for food.

4. (Bot.) A kind of apothecium in lichens, which is orbicular, flat, and sessile, and has a special rim not a part of the thallus.

Pa*tel"lar (?), a. (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the patella, or kneepan.

Pa*tel"li*form (?), a. [Patella + form: cf. F. pattelliforme.] 1. Having the form of a patella.

2. (Zoˆl.) Resembling a limpet of the genus Patella.

||Pa*tel"lu*la (?), n.; pl. PatellulÊ (#). [NL., dim. of L. patella. ||See Patella.] (Zoˆl.) A cuplike sucker on the feet of certain ||insects.

Pat"en (?), n. [LL. patina, patena, fr. L. patina, patena, a pan; cf. L. patere to be open, E. patent, and Gr. &?; a kind of flat dish: cf. F. patËne. Cf. Patina.] 1. A plate. [Obs.]

2. (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.

||Pat"e*na (?), n. [LL.] (Eccl.) A paten.

||Pa*te"na (?), n. [Cf. Pg. patena a paten.] A grassy expanse in the ||hill region of Ceylon.

Pa"ten*cy (?), n. [See Patent.] 1. The condition of being open, enlarged, or spread.

2. The state of being patent or evident.

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