Patroon
(Pa*troon") n. [D. patroon a patron, a protector. See Patron.] 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.
Patroonship
(Pa*troon"ship), n. The office of a patroon. Irving.
Patté
(||Pat`té" Pat*tee") a. [F. patté, fem. pattée, fr. patte paw, foot. Cf. Patten.] (Her.) 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. [Written also paté, patee.]
Pattemar
(Pat"te*mar) n. See Patamar.
Patten
(Pat"ten) n. [F. patin a high- heeled shoe, fr. patte paw, foot. Cf. Panton, Patté.]
1. A clog or sole of wood, usually supported by an iron ring, worn to raise the feet from the wet or the
mud.
The patten now supports each frugal dame.
Gay. 2. A stilt. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.
Pattened
(Pat"ten*ed) a. Wearing pattens. "Some pattened girl." Jane Austen.
Patter
(Pat"ter) v. i. [imp. & p. p. Pattered ; p. pr. & vb. n. Pattering.] [Freq. of pat to strike gently.]
1. To strike with a quick succession of slight, sharp sounds; as, pattering rain or hail; pattering feet.
The stealing shower is scarce to patter heard.
Thomson. 2. To mutter; to mumble; as, to patter with the lips. Tyndale. [In this sense, and in the following, perh.
from paternoster.]
3. To talk glibly; to chatter; to harangue. [Colloq.]
I've gone out and pattered to get money.
Mayhew. Patter
(Pat"ter), v. t.
1. To spatter; to sprinkle. [R.] "And patter the water about the boat." J. R. Drake.
2. [See Patter, v. i., 2.] To mutter; as prayers.
[The hooded clouds] patter their doleful prayers.
Longfellow. To patter flash, to talk in thieves' cant. [Slang]
Patter
(Pat"ter), n.
1. A quick succession of slight sounds; as, the patter of rain; the patter of little feet.
2. Glib and rapid speech; a voluble harangue.
3. The cant of a class; patois; as, thieves's patter; gypsies' patter.
