Patacoon
(Pa`ta*coon") n. [Sp.] See Pataca.
Patagium
(||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. (Zoöl.) One of a pair of small vesicular organs situated at the bases of the anterior wings of lepidopterous
insects. See Illust. of Butterfly.
Patagonian
(Pat`a*go"ni*an) a. Of or pertaining to Patagonia. — n. A native of Patagonia.
Patamar
(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.]
Patas
(Pa*tas") n. (Zoöl.) A West African long-tailed monkey (Cercopithecus ruber); the red monkey.
Patavinity
(Pat`a*vin"i*ty) n. [L. patavinitas, fr. Patavium: cf. F. patavinité] 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.
Patch
(Patch) n. [OE. pacche; of uncertain origin, perh. for placche; cf. Prov. E. platch patch, LG.
plakk, plakke.]
1. A piece of cloth, or other suitable material, sewed or otherwise fixed upon a garment to repair or
strengthen it, esp. upon an old garment to cover a hole.
Patches set upon a little breach.
Shak. 2. Hence: A small piece of anything used to repair a breach; as, a patch on a kettle, a roof, etc.
3. A small piece of black silk stuck on the face, or neck, to hide a defect, or to heighten beauty.
Your black patches you wear variously.
Beau. & Fl. 4. (Gun.) A piece of greased cloth or leather used as wrapping for a rifle ball, to make it fit the bore.
5. Fig.: Anything regarded as a patch; a small piece of ground; a tract; a plot; as, scattered patches of
trees or growing corn.
Employed about this patch of ground.
Bunyan. 6. (Mil.) A block on the muzzle of a gun, to do away with the effect of dispart, in sighting.
7. A paltry fellow; a rogue; a ninny; a fool. [Obs. or Colloq.] "Thou scurvy patch." Shak.
Patch ice, ice in overlapping pieces in the sea. — Soft patch, a patch for covering a crack in a metallic
vessel, as a steam boiler, consisting of soft material, as putty, covered and held in place by a plate bolted
or riveted fast.
Patch
(Patch) v. t. [imp. & p. p. Patched ; p. pr. & vb. n. Patching.]
1. To mend by sewing on a piece or pieces of cloth, leather, or the like; as, to patch a coat.
2. To mend with pieces; to repair with pieces festened on; to repair clumsily; as, to patch the roof of a
house.
