Pasticcio (n.) A medley; an olio.
Pasticcio (n.) A work of art imitating directly the work of another artist, or of more artists than one.
Pasticcio (n.) A falsified work of art, as a vase or statue made up of parts of original works, with missing parts supplied.
Pastil (n.) Alt. of Pastille
Pastille (n.) A small cone or mass made of paste of gum, benzoin, cinnamon, and other aromatics, -- used for fumigating or scenting the air of a room.
Pastille (n.) An aromatic or medicated lozenge; a troche.
Pastille (n.) See Pastel, a crayon.
Pastime (n.) That which amuses, and serves to make time pass agreeably; sport; amusement; diversion.
Pastime (v. i.) To sport; to amuse one's self.
Pastor (n.) A shepherd; one who has the care of flocks and herds.
Pastor (n.) A guardian; a keeper; specifically (Eccl.), a minister having the charge of a church and parish.
Pastor (n.) A species of starling (Pastor roseus), native of the plains of Western Asia and Eastern Europe. Its head is crested and glossy greenish black, and its back is rosy. It feeds largely upon locusts.
Pastorage (n.) The office, jurisdiction, or duty, of a pastor; pastorate.
Pastoral (a.) Of or pertaining to shepherds; hence, relating to rural life and scenes; as, a pastoral life.
Pastoral (a.) Relating to the care of souls, or to the pastor of a church; as, pastoral duties; a pastoral letter.
Pastoral (n.) A poem describing the life and manners of shepherds; a poem in which the speakers assume the character of shepherds; an idyl; a bucolic.
Pastoral (n.) A cantata relating to rural life; a composition for instruments characterized by simplicity and sweetness; a lyrical composition the subject of which is taken from rural life.
Pastoral (n.) A letter of a pastor to his charge; specifically, a letter addressed by a bishop to his diocese; also (Prot. Epis. Ch.), a letter of the House of Bishops, to be read in each parish.
Pastorale (n.) A composition in a soft, rural style, generally in 6-8 or 12-8 time.
Pastorale (n.) A kind of dance; a kind of figure used in a dance.
Pastorally (adv.) In a pastoral or rural manner.
Pastorally (adv.) In the manner of a pastor.
Pastorate (n.) The office, state, or jurisdiction of a pastor.
Pastorless (a.) Having no pastor.
Pastorling (n.) An insignificant pastor.
Pastorly (a.) Appropriate to a pastor.
Pastorship (n.) Pastorate.
Pastries (pl. ) of Pastry
Pastry (n.) The place where pastry is made.
Pastry (n.) Articles of food made of paste, or having a crust made of paste, as pies, tarts, etc.
Pasturable (a.) Fit for pasture.
Pasturage (n.) Grazing ground; grass land used for pasturing; pasture.
Pasturage (n.) Grass growing for feed; grazing.
Pasturage (n.) The business of feeding or grazing cattle.
Pasture (n.) Food; nourishment.
Pasture (n.) Specifically: Grass growing for the food of cattle; the food of cattle taken by grazing.
Pasture (n.) Grass land for cattle, horses, etc.; pasturage.
Pastured (imp. & p. p.) of Pasture
Pasturing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Pasture
Pasture (v. t.) To feed, esp. to feed on growing grass; to supply grass as food for; as, the farmer pastures fifty oxen; the land will pasture forty cows.
Pasture (v. i.) To feed on growing grass; to graze.
Pastureless (a.) Destitute of pasture.
Pasturer (n.) One who pastures; one who takes cattle to graze. See Agister.
Pasty (a.) Like paste, as in color, softness, stickness.
Pasties (pl. ) of Pasty
Pasty (n.) A pie consisting usually of meat wholly surrounded with a crust made of a sheet of paste, and often baked without a dish; a meat pie.
Patted (imp. & p. p.) of Pat
Patting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Pat
Pat (v. t.) To strike gently with the fingers or hand; to stroke lightly; to tap; as, to pat a dog.
Pat (n.) A light, quik blow or stroke with the fingers or hand; a tap.
Pat (n.) A small mass, as of butter, shaped by pats.
Pat (a.) Exactly suitable; fit; convenient; timely.
Pat (adv.) In a pat manner.
Pataca (n.) The Spanish dollar; -- called also patacoon.
Patache (n.) A tender to a fleet, formerly used for conveying men, orders, or treasure.
Patacoon (n.) See Pataca.
Patagia (pl. ) of Patagium
Patagium (n.) 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.
Patagium (n.) One of a pair of small vesicular organs situated at the bases of the anterior wings of lepidopterous insects. See Illust. of Butterfly.
Patagonian (a.) Of or pertaining to Patagonia.
Patagonian (n.) A native of Patagonia.
Patamar (n.) A vessel resembling a grab, used in the coasting trade of Bombay and Ceylon.
Patas (n.) A West African long-tailed monkey (Cercopithecus ruber); the red monkey.
Patavinity (n.) 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 (n.) 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.
Patch (n.) A small piece of anything used to repair a breach; as, a patch on a kettle, a roof, etc.
Patch (n.) A small piece of black silk stuck on the face, or neck, to hide a defect, or to heighten beauty.
Patch (n.) A piece of greased cloth or leather used as wrapping for a rifle ball, to make it fit the bore.
Patch (n.) Fig.: Anything regarded as a patch; a small piece of ground; a tract; a plot; as, scattered patches of trees or growing corn.
Patch (n.) A block on the muzzle of a gun, to do away with the effect of dispart, in sighting.
Patch (n.) A paltry fellow; a rogue; a ninny; a fool.
Patched (imp. & p. p.) of Patch
Patching (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Patch
Patch (v. t.) To mend by sewing on a piece or pieces of cloth, leather, or the like; as, to patch a coat.
Patch (v. t.) To mend with pieces; to repair with pieces festened on; to repair clumsily; as, to patch the roof of a house.
Patch (v. t.) To adorn, as the face, with a patch or patches.
Patch (v. t.) 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.
Patcher (n.) One who patches or botches.
Patchery (n.) Botchery; covering of defects; bungling; hypocrisy.
Patchingly (adv.) Knavishy; deceitfully.
Patchouli (n.) Alt. of Patchouly
Patchouly (n.) A mintlike plant (Pogostemon Patchouli) of the East Indies, yielding an essential oil from which a highly valued perfume is made.
Patchouly (n.) The perfume made from this plant.
Patchwork (n.) 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.
Patchy (a.) Full of, or covered with, patches; abounding in patches.
Pate (a.) See Patte.
Pate (n.) A pie. See Patty.
Pate (n.) 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.
Pate (n.) The head of a person; the top, or crown, of the head.
Pate (n.) The skin of a calf's head.
Pated (a.) Having a pate; -- used only in composition; as, long-pated; shallow-pated.
Patee (n.) See Pattee.
Patefaction (n.) The act of opening, disclosing, or manifesting; open declaration.
Patela (n.) A large flat-bottomed trading boat peculiar to the river Ganges; -- called also puteli.
Patellae (pl. ) of Patella
Patella (n.) A small dish, pan, or vase.
Patella (n.) The kneepan; the cap of the knee.
Patella (n.) 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.
Patella (n.) A kind of apothecium in lichens, which is orbicular, flat, and sessile, and has a special rim not a part of the thallus.
Patellar (a.) Of or pertaining to the patella, or kneepan.