Patelliform (a.) Having the form of a patella.
Patelliform (a.) Resembling a limpet of the genus Patella.
Patellulae (pl. ) of Patellula
Patellula (n.) A cuplike sucker on the feet of certain insects.
Paten (n.) A plate.
Paten (n.) 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.
Patena (n.) A paten.
Patena (n.) A grassy expanse in the hill region of Ceylon.
Patency (n.) The condition of being open, enlarged, or spread.
Patency (n.) The state of being patent or evident.
Patent (a.) Open; expanded; evident; apparent; unconcealed; manifest; public; conspicuous.
Patent (a.) Open to public perusal; -- said of a document conferring some right or privilege; as, letters patent. See Letters patent, under 3d Letter.
Patent (a.) 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.
Patent (a.) Spreading; forming a nearly right angle with the steam or branch; as, a patent leaf.
Patent (a.) A letter patent, or letters patent; an official document, issued by a sovereign power, conferring a right or privilege on some person or party.
Patent (a.) A writing securing to an invention.
Patent (a.) A document making a grant and conveyance of public lands.
Patent (a.) The right or privilege conferred by such a document; hence, figuratively, a right, privilege, or license of the nature of a patent.
Patented (imp. & p. p.) of Patent
Patenting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Patent
Patent (v. t.) 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.
Patentable (a.) Suitable to be patented; capable of being patented.
Patentee (n.) One to whom a grant is made, or a privilege secured, by patent.
Patent-hammered (a.) Having a surface dressed by cutting with a hammer the head of which consists of broad thin chisels clamped together.
Patently (adv.) Openly; evidently.
Paterae (pl. ) of Patera
Patera (n.) A saucerlike vessel of earthenware or metal, used by the Greeks and Romans in libations and sacrificies.
Patera (n.) A circular ornament, resembling a dish, often worked in relief on friezes, and the like.
Paterero (n.) See Pederero.
Pateresfamilias (pl. ) of Paterfamilias
Paterfamilias (n.) The head of a family; in a large sense, the proprietor of an estate; one who is his own master.
Paternal (a.) Of or pertaining to a father; fatherly; showing the disposition of a father; guiding or instructing as a father; as, paternal care.
Paternal (a.) Received or derived from a father; hereditary; as, a paternal estate.
Paternalism (n.) The theory or practice of paternal government. See Paternal government, under Paternal.
Paternally (adv.) In a paternal manner.
Paternity (n.) The relation of a father to his child; fathership; fatherhood; family headship; as, the divine paternity.
Paternity (n.) Derivation or descent from a father; male parentage; as, the paternity of a child.
Paternity (n.) Origin; authorship.
Paternoster (n.) The Lord's prayer, so called from the first two words of the Latin version.
Paternoster (n.) A beadlike ornament in moldings.
Paternoster (n.) A line with a row of hooks and bead/shaped sinkers.
Paths (pl. ) of Path
Path (n.) A trodden way; a footway.
Path (n.) A way, course, or track, in which anything moves or has moved; route; passage; an established way; as, the path of a meteor, of a caravan, of a storm, of a pestilence. Also used figuratively, of a course of life or action.
Pathed (imp. & p. p.) of Path
Pathing (pr.p. & vb. n.) of Path
Path (v. t.) To make a path in, or on (something), or for (some one).
Path (v. i.) To walk or go.
Pathematic (a.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, emotion or suffering.
Pathetic (a.) Expressing or showing anger; passionate.
Pathetic (a.) Affecting or moving the tender emotions, esp. pity or grief; full of pathos; as, a pathetic song or story.
Pathetical (a.) Pathetic.
Pathetism (n.) See Mesmerism.
Pathfinder (n.) One who discovers a way or path; one who explores untraversed regions.
Pathic (n.) A male who submits to the crime against nature; a catamite.
Pathic (a.) Passive; suffering.
Pathless (a.) Having no beaten path or way; untrodden; impenetrable; as, pathless woods.
Pathmaker (n.) One who, or that which, makes a way or path.
Pathogene (n.) One of a class of virulent microorganisms or bacteria found in the tissues and fluids in infectious diseases, and supposed to be the cause of the disease; a pathogenic organism; a pathogenic bacterium; -- opposed to zymogene.
Pathogenesis (n.) Pathogeny.
Pathogenetic (a.) Pathogenic.
Pathogenic (a.) Of or pertaining to pathogeny; producting disease; as, a pathogenic organism; a pathogenic bacterium.
Pathogeny (n.) The generation, and method of development, of disease; as, the pathogeny of yellow fever is unsettled.
Pathogeny (n.) That branch of pathology which treats of the generation and development of disease.
Pathognomonic (a.) Specially or decisively characteristic of a disease; indicating with certainty a disease; as, a pathognomonic symptom.
Pathognomy (n.) Expression of the passions; the science of the signs by which human passions are indicated.
Pathologic (a.) Alt. of Pathological
Pathological (a.) Of or pertaining to pathology.
Pathologist (n.) One skilled in pathology; an investigator in pathology; as, the pathologist of a hospital, whose duty it is to determine the causes of the diseases.
Pathologies (pl. ) of Pathology
Pathology (n.) The science which treats of diseases, their nature, causes, progress, symptoms, etc.
-ias (pl. ) of Pathopoela
Pathopoela (n.) A speech, or figure of speech, designed to move the passion.
Pathos (n.) That quality or property of anything which touches the feelings or excites emotions and passions, esp., that which awakens tender emotions, such as pity, sorrow, and the like; contagious warmth of feeling, action, or expression; pathetic quality; as, the pathos of a picture, of a poem, or of a cry.
Pathway (n.) A footpath; a beaten track; any path or course. Also used figuratively.
Patible (a.) Sufferable; tolerable; endurable.
Patibulary (a.) Of or pertaining to the gallows, or to execution.
Patibulated (a.) Hanged on a gallows.
Patience (n.) The state or quality of being patient; the power of suffering with fortitude; uncomplaining endurance of evils or wrongs, as toil, pain, poverty, insult, oppression, calamity, etc.
Patience (n.) The act or power of calmly or contentedly waiting for something due or hoped for; forbearance.
Patience (n.) Constancy in labor or application; perseverance.
Patience (n.) Sufferance; permission.
Patience (n.) A kind of dock (Rumex Patientia), less common in America than in Europe; monk's rhubarb.
Patience (n.) Solitaire.
Patient (a.) Having the quality of enduring; physically able to suffer or bear.
Patient (a.) Undergoing pains, trails, or the like, without murmuring or fretfulness; bearing up with equanimity against trouble; long-suffering.
Patient (a.) Constant in pursuit or exertion; persevering; calmly diligent; as, patient endeavor.
Patient (a.) Expectant with calmness, or without discontent; not hasty; not overeager; composed.
Patient (a.) Forbearing; long-suffering.
Patient (n.) ONe who, or that which, is passively affected; a passive recipient.
Patient (n.) A person under medical or surgical treatment; -- correlative to physician or nurse.
Patient (v. t.) To compose, to calm.
Patiently (adv.) In a patient manner.
Patin (n.) Alt. of Patine
Patine (n.) A plate. See Paten.
Patina (n.) A dish or plate of metal or earthenware; a patella.
Patina (n.) The color or incrustation which age gives to works of art; especially, the green rust which covers ancient bronzes, coins, and medals.
Patio (n.) A paved yard or floor where ores are cleaned and sorted, or where ore, salt, mercury, etc., are trampled by horses, to effect intermixture and amalgamation.
Patly (adv.) Fitly; seasonably.
Patness (n.) Fitness or appropriateness; striking suitableness; convenience.