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Goods of any quality or material of the pattern of a plaid or tartan; a checkered cloth or pattern.

A plat; a plan; a sketch; a model; a pattern. Used also figuratively. [Obs.] Bacon.

-ax with a long handle; later, an ax or hatchet with a short handle, and a head variously patterned; -- used by soldiers, and also by sailors in boarding a vessel.

f my cause, I see The portraiture of his. Shak. Divinity maketh the love of ourselves the pattern; the love of our neighbors but the portraiture. Bacon.

Lace whose pattern includes one or more representations of baskets or bowls from which flowers spring.

Charcoal dust, or some other colored powder for making patterns through perforated designs, -- used by embroiderers, lace makers, etc. Pounce box, a box for sprinkling pounce. -- Pounce paper, a transparent paper for tracing.

of by puncturing; to trace or form by pricking; to mark by punctured dots; as, to prick a pattern for embroidery; to prick the notes of a musical composition. Cowper.

To stamp or impress with colored figures or patterns; as, to print calico.

An original or model after which anything is copied; the pattern of anything to be engraved, or otherwise copied, cast, or the like; a primary form; exemplar; archetype. They will turn their backs on it, like their great precursor and prototype. Burke.

An adjustable pattern used by tailors. Knight.

To stitch or sew in lines or patterns.

The act of stitching or running in patterns, as in making a quilt.

A road or way consisting of one or more parallel series of iron or steel rails, patterned and adjusted to be tracks for the wheels of vehicles, and suitably supported on a bed or substructure.

To free (a pattern) in a mold by light blows on the pattern, so as to facilitate its removal.

The enlargement of a molt caused by rapping the pattern.

To make investigation or search, as by picking out the threads of a woven pattern. [Obs.] The humor of raveling into all these mystical or entangled matters. Sir W. Temple.

Slashed or striped in patterns. [Obs.] "Two Provincial roses on my razed shoes." Shak.

The process of applying additional colors, by applications of printing blocks, to patterns already partly colored.

That which is repeated; as, the repeat of a pattern; that is, the repetition of the engraved figure on a roller by which an impression is produced (as in calico printing, etc.).

Formed in relief, as a pattern on metal.