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To strike gently with the fingers or hand; to stroke lightly; to tap; as, to pat a dog. Gay pats my shoulder, and you vanish quite. Pope.

The Spanish dollar; -- called also patacoon. [Obs.]

A tender to a fleet, formerly used for conveying men, orders, or treasure. [Spain & Portugal]

See Pataca.

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.

Of or pertaining to Patagonia. -- n.

vessel resembling a grab, used in the coasting trade of Bombay and Ceylon. [Written also pattemar.]

A West African long-tailed monkey (Cercopithecus ruber); the red monkey.

ords, as in the peculiar style or diction of Livy, the Roman historian; -- so called from Patavium, now Padua, the place of Livy's nativity.

ixed upon a garment to repair or strengthen it, esp. upon an old garment to cover a hole. Patches set upon a little breach. Shak.

One who patches or botches. Foxe.

Botchery; covering of defects; bungling; hypocrisy. [R.] Shak.

Knavishy; deceitfully. [Obs.]

A mintlike plant (Pogostemon Patchouli) of the East Indies, yielding an essential oil from which a highly valued perfume is made.

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. Swift.

Full of, or covered with, patches; abounding in patches.

See Patté.

Having a pate; -- used only in composition; as, long-pated; shallow-pated.

See Pattee.

The act of opening, disclosing, or manifesting; open declaration. Jer. Taylor.