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  • English Word Patch Definition 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.
  • English Word Patch Definition A small piece of anything used to repair a breach; as, a patch on a kettle, a roof, etc.
  • English Word Patch Definition A small piece of black silk stuck on the face, or neck, to hide a defect, or to heighten beauty.
  • English Word Patch Definition A piece of greased cloth or leather used as wrapping for a rifle ball, to make it fit the bore.
  • English Word Patch Definition Fig.: Anything regarded as a patch; a small piece of ground; a tract; a plot; as, scattered patches of trees or growing corn.
  • English Word Patch Definition A block on the muzzle of a gun, to do away with the effect of dispart, in sighting.
  • English Word Patch Definition A paltry fellow; a rogue; a ninny; a fool.
  • English Word Patch Definition To mend by sewing on a piece or pieces of cloth, leather, or the like; as, to patch a coat.
  • English Word Patch Definition To mend with pieces; to repair with pieces festened on; to repair clumsily; as, to patch the roof of a house.
  • English Word Patch Definition To adorn, as the face, with a patch or patches.
  • English Word Patch Definition To make of pieces or patches; to repair as with patches; to arrange in a hasty or clumsy manner; -- generally with up; as, to patch up a truce.
  • English Word Patched Definition of Patch
  • English Word Patcher Definition One who patches or botches.
  • English Word Patchery Definition Botchery; covering of defects; bungling; hypocrisy.
  • English Word Patching Definition of Patch
  • English Word Patchingly Definition Knavishy; deceitfully.
  • English Word Patchouli Definition Alt. of Patchouly
  • English Word Patchouly Definition A mintlike plant (Pogostemon Patchouli) of the East Indies, yielding an essential oil from which a highly valued perfume is made.
  • English Word Patchouly Definition The perfume made from this plant.
  • English Word Patchwork Definition Work composed of pieces sewed together, esp. pieces of various colors and figures; hence, anything put together of incongruous or ill-adapted parts; something irregularly clumsily composed; a thing putched up.
  • English Word Patchy Definition Full of, or covered with, patches; abounding in patches.
  • English Word Pate Definition See Patte.
  • English Word Pate Definition A pie. See Patty.
  • English Word Pate Definition 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.
  • English Word Pate Definition The head of a person; the top, or crown, of the head.
  • English Word Pate Definition The skin of a calf's head.
  • English Word Pated Definition Having a pate; -- used only in composition; as, long-pated; shallow-pated.
  • English Word Patee Definition See Pattee.
  • English Word Patefaction Definition The act of opening, disclosing, or manifesting; open declaration.
  • English Word Patela Definition A large flat-bottomed trading boat peculiar to the river Ganges; -- called also puteli.