Index of English words, starting with "pa"

(1) - Pat (adv.) In a pat manner.
(2) - Pat (a.) Exactly suitable; fit; convenient; timely.
(3) - Pat (n.) A small mass, as of butter, shaped by pats.
(4) - Pat (n.) A light, quik blow or stroke with the fingers or hand; a tap.
(5) - Pat (v. t.) To strike gently with the fingers or hand; to stroke lightly; to tap; as, to pat a dog.

(1) - 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.
(2) - 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.

(1) - 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.
(2) - Patch (v. t.) To adorn, as the face, with a patch or patches.
(3) - Patch (v. t.) To mend with pieces; to repair with pieces festened on; to repair clumsily; as, to patch the roof of a house.
(4) - Patch (v. t.) To mend by sewing on a piece or pieces of cloth, leather, or the like; as, to patch a coat.
(5) - Patch (n.) A paltry fellow; a rogue; a ninny; a fool.
(6) - Patch (n.) A block on the muzzle of a gun, to do away with the effect of dispart, in sighting.
(7) - 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.
(8) - Patch (n.) A piece of greased cloth or leather used as wrapping for a rifle ball, to make it fit the bore.
(9) - Patch (n.) A small piece of black silk stuck on the face, or neck, to hide a defect, or to heighten beauty.
(10) - Patch (n.) A small piece of anything used to repair a breach; as, a patch on a kettle, a roof, etc.
(11) - 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.