patamar, pattemar

A kind of native ve el used by Bombay merchants and others for coasting voyages to and from that port. One of the larger kind is about 76 feet long, 21 feet broad, and 12 feet deep, with a burden of about 200 tons. It has two masts, with lateen sails. Smaller ones have but a single mast. They are grab-built, that is, have a prow-stem the same length as the keel. They are the best native ve els in India. pat-and, pat-in, subst. [Etym. doubtful.] The bottom plate or sill of a partition of a screen. păt-a-ra, s. [Tahitian.] Bot.: An excellent timber, probably Dioscorea pentaphylla . Păt-ar-i-ni, s . pl . [PATER IN I.] pat-a-vin-i-ty, subst . [Lat. pat a vin it as , from Patavium, now Padua, a city in north Italy; Fr. patavinité ; Ital. patavinità .] A term used to expre the peculiar style of Livy, the Roman historian, IMG:content-0743.png:[blocks in formation] "Patches, set upon a little breach, Discredit more, in hiding of the fault, Than did the fault before it was so patch'd." Shakesp.: King John, iv. 2. 2. A small piece of anything used to repair a breach. 3. A greased piece of cloth wrapped around a rifle bullet. 4. A strengthening piece on a fabric at a point of wear, or around a hole or eyelet. 5. A piece inserted in mosaic or other work. "They suffer their minds to appear in a piebald livery of coarse patches and borrowed shreds."-Locke. 6. A small piece or spot of black silk used to cover a defect on the face or to add a charm. (The custom was very prevalent in the early part of the eight eenth century.) "From patches justly placed they borrow graces." Gay: To W. Poultney, Esq. 7. An additional or substitute piece in the covering or sheathing of a structure. 8. A block on the muzzle of a gun to do away with the effect of dispart; making the line of bore and line of sight parallel. 9. A small piece of ground; a plot. "For above these sixteen hundred years employed about this patch of ground."-Bunyan: Pilgrim's Progre , pt. i. *10. A paltry fellow; a ninny, an idiot, a fool. "What a pied ninny's this! thou scurvy patch!"Shakesp.: Tempest , iii. 2. Not to be a patch on some person or thing: Not fit to be compared to him or it. ( Slang .) "He is not a patch on you for looks."-C. Reade: Cloister and Hearth, ch. xxxvii. *patch-box, s . A box formerly employed to keep patches in. [PATCH, 8., 6.] "Thrice from thy trembling hand the patch - box fell." Pope: Rape of the Lock, iv. 162.