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- English Word Patella Definition A small dish, pan, or vase.
- English Word Patella Definition The kneepan; the cap of the knee.
- English Word Patella Definition 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.
- English Word Patella Definition A kind of apothecium in lichens, which is orbicular, flat, and sessile, and has a special rim not a part of the thallus.
- English Word Patellae Definition of Patella
- English Word Patellar Definition Of or pertaining to the patella, or kneepan.
- English Word Patelliform Definition Having the form of a patella.
- English Word Patelliform Definition Resembling a limpet of the genus Patella.
- English Word Patellula Definition A cuplike sucker on the feet of certain insects.
- English Word Patellulae Definition of Patellula
- English Word Paten Definition A plate.
- English Word Paten Definition 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.
- English Word Patena Definition A paten.
- English Word Patena Definition A grassy expanse in the hill region of Ceylon.
- English Word Patency Definition The condition of being open, enlarged, or spread.
- English Word Patency Definition The state of being patent or evident.
- English Word Patent Definition Open; expanded; evident; apparent; unconcealed; manifest; public; conspicuous.
- English Word Patent Definition Open to public perusal; -- said of a document conferring some right or privilege; as, letters patent. See Letters patent, under 3d Letter.
- English Word Patent Definition Appropriated or protected by letters patent; secured by official authority to the exclusive possession, control, and disposal of some person or party; patented; as, a patent right; patent medicines.
- English Word Patent Definition Spreading; forming a nearly right angle with the steam or branch; as, a patent leaf.
- English Word Patent Definition A letter patent, or letters patent; an official document, issued by a sovereign power, conferring a right or privilege on some person or party.
- English Word Patent Definition A writing securing to an invention.
- English Word Patent Definition A document making a grant and conveyance of public lands.
- English Word Patent Definition The right or privilege conferred by such a document; hence, figuratively, a right, privilege, or license of the nature of a patent.
- English Word Patent Definition To grant by patent; to make the subject of a patent; to secure or protect by patent; as, to patent an invention; to patent public lands.
- English Word Patent-hammered Definition Having a surface dressed by cutting with a hammer the head of which consists of broad thin chisels clamped together.
- English Word Patentable Definition Suitable to be patented; capable of being patented.
- English Word Patented Definition of Patent
- English Word Patentee Definition One to whom a grant is made, or a privilege secured, by patent.
- English Word Patenting Definition of Patent