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Protection; patronage and care; guidance. Which by his auspice they will nobler make. Dryden.

The person who has a right to present to a benefice; the patron; an advowee. See Advowson.

An advocate; a patron; a patron saint. [Obs.] Let God alone be our avowry. Latimer.

e whose occupation it is to shave or trim the beard, and to cut and dress the hair of his patrons. Barber's itch. See under Itch.

A restaurant or café at which the patrons serve themselves with food kept at a counter, taking the food to small tables to eat. [U. S.]

ut himself under the protection of a man of distinction and influence, who was called his patron.

The clients or dependents of a nobleman of patron.

Condition of a client; state of being under the protection of a patron. Dryden.

To present and institute in a benefice, when the person presenting is both the patron and the ordinary; -- followed by to.

Passing or held by collation; -- said of livings of which the bishop and the patron are the same person.

prize, or as where two or more persons are engaged in the same business and each seeking patronage; -- followed by for before the object sought, and with before the person or thing competed with. Competition to the crown there is none, nor can be. Bacon. A portrait, with which one of Titian's could not come in competi…

Without conscience; indifferent to conscience; unscrupulous. Conscienceless and wicked patrons. Hookre.

itted lusts. Shak. To cool the heels, to dance attendance; to wait, as for admission to a patron's house. [Colloq.] Dryden.

A shoemaker; -- jocularly so called from the patron sant of the craft.

To inscribe or address, as to a patron. He complied ten elegant books, and dedicated them to the Lord Burghley. Peacham.

An address to a patron or friend, prefixed to a book, testifying respect, and often recommending the work to his special protection and favor.

One who dedicates; more especially, one who inscribes a book to the favor of a patron, or to one whom he desires to compliment.

The patron of a church; an officer having charge of the temporal affairs of a church.

the disadvantage of being unknown by sight to any of you. Burke. Abandoned by their great patron, the faction henceforward acted at disadvantage. Palfrey.

To talk to; to confer with. [Obs.] I have spoken to my brother, who is the patron, to discourse the minister about it. Evelyn.