Emily Dickinson Lexicon

PAS'TRY, n. [from paste.]

1. Things in general which are made of paste, or of which paste constitutes; a principal ingredient, as pies, tarts, cake and the like.
2. The place where pastry is made. – Shak.

PAS'TRY-COOK, n.

One whose occupation is to make and sell articles made of paste. – Arbuthnot.

PAS'TUR-A-BLE, a. [from pasture.]

Fit for pasture.

PAS'TUR-AGE, n. [Fr. pâturage. See Pasture.]

1. The business of feeding or grazing cattle. – Spenser.
2. Grazing ground; land appropriated to grazing. Addison.
3. Grass for feed. – Arbuthnot.

PAS'TURE, n. [Fr. pâture, for pasture, from L. pasco, pastum, to feed, Gr. βοσκω.]

1. Grass for the food of cattle; the food of cattle taken by grazing. – Brown.
2. Ground covered with grass appropriated for the food of cattle. The farmer has a hundred acres of pasture. It is sometimes called pasture-land.
3. Human culture; education. [Not used.] Dryden. Common of pasture, is the right of feeding cattle on another's ground.

PAS'TURE, v.i.

To graze; to take food by eating grass! from the ground. – Milton.

PAS'TURE, v.t.

To feed on grass or to supply grass for food. We apply the word to persons, as the farmer pastures fifty oxen; or to ground, as the land will pasture fifty oxen.

PAS'TUR-ED, pp.

Fed on grass.

PAS'TURE-LESS, a.

Destitute of pasture.

PAS'TUR-ING, ppr.

Supplying with grass for food.

PAS'TY, a.

Like paste; of the consistence of paste. – Cooper.

PAS'TY, n. [from paste.]

A pie made of paste and baked without a dish. – Pope. King.

PAT, a. [G. pass; D. pas. See Fit and Pass.]

Fit; convenient; exactly suitable either as to time or place. [Not an elegant word, admissible in burlesque.] – Atterbury. Swift.

PAT, adv.

Fitly; conveniently. – Shak.

PAT, n. [W. fat, a blow; fatiaw, to strike lightly, to pat. Qu. Fr. patte.]

A light quick blow or stroke with the fingers or hand.

PAT, v.t.

To strike gently with the fingers or hand; to tap. Gay pats my shoulder and you vanish quite. – Pope.

PA-TA'CA, or PAT-A-COON', n. [from the Sp.]

A Spanish coin of the value of 4s. 8d. sterling, or about $1.04 cents. – Sp. Dict.

PA-TACHE', n. [Sp.]

A tender or small vessel employed in conveying men or orders from one ship or place to another. Sp. Dict.

PAT-A-VIN'I-TY, n.

The use of local words, or the peculiar style or diction of Livy, the Roman historian; so denominated from Patavium or Padua, the place of his nativity. – Encyc. Lempriere.

PATCH, n. [It. pezza, a piece, Fr. pièce, Arm. pez, Sp. pieza. Qu.]

1. A piece of cloth sewed on a garment to repair it. Dryden.
2. A small piece of any thing used to repair a breach.
3. A small piece of silk used to cover a defect on the face, or to add a charm.
4. A piece inserted in mosaic or variegated work. – Locke.
5. A small piece of ground, or a small detached piece. – Shak.
6. A paltry fellow. This use is sometimes heard in vulgar language; as, a cross-patch.

PATCH, v.t.

1. To mend by sewing on a piece or pieces; as, to patch a coat.
2. To adorn with a patch or with patches. In the middle boxes were several ladies who patched both sides of their faces. – Spectator.
3. To mend with pieces; to repair clumsily. – Shak.
4. To repair with pieces fastened on; as, to patch the roof of a house.
5. To make up of pieces and shreds. – Ralegh.
6. To dress in a party-colored coat. Shak.
7. To make suddenly or hastily; to make without regard to forms; as, to patch up a piece.

PATCH'ED, pp.

Mended with a patch or patches; mended clumsily.

PATCH'ER, n.

One that patches or botches.

PATCH'ER-Y, n.

Bungling work; botchery; forgery. – Shak.

PATCH'ING, ppr.

Mending with a piece or pieces; botching.