pach)

and a. [ with lo of medial 1 (as also prob. in patl patel ), for platch: see platch. In this view the G. dial. (Swi ) batschen, patschen, patsch, batsch, a patch,, is not related. It. pezza, a patch, piece, is a diff. word: see piece.] I. n. 1. Any piece Piece of material used to repair a defective place in some fabric or construction, as a piece of cloth sewed on a garment where it is torn or worn, a bit of masonry, mosaic, tiling, or the like, used to repair a defect in old work, or a sod or sods employed to make good an injured spot in a lawn. We, that mocke euerie Nation for keeping one fashion, yet steale patches from euerie one of them, to peece out our pride. Dekker, Seven Deadly Sins, p. 37. 2. A piece of cloth cut into some regular shape, to be sewed with others into patchwork.-3. A small piece of silk or court-plaster used on the face, with the apparent purpose of heightening the complexion by contrast. In the seventeenth century patches were used cut not merely in squares and triangles, but in various extraordinary forms and of considerable size; they were even cut into groups of figures several inches long and elaborate in outline. In the eighteenth century, and especially at the court of France, the fashion of wearing patches came again into vogue, and it has been deemed an e ential accompaniment to powdered hair, reappearing fitfully whenever the use of powder has been reintroduced. Patches received special names according to the place where they were applied, as the coquette when on the lips, the effrontée or bold when on the nose, etc. Patches as worn on the face about 1740. 'Tis not a face I only am in love with;... Nor your black patches you wear variously, Some cut like stars, some in half-moons, some lozenges; All which but show you still a younger brother. ing. [Colloq.] Soldier, you are too late. He is not a patch on you for looks; but then - he has loved me so long. C. Reade, Cloister and Hearth, xxxvii. ( Davies .) Methought I had - but man is but a patched fool, if he will offer to say what methought I had. Shak., M. N. D., iv. 1. 215. patchedade of patches, patched quiltched (pach'ed-li), manner; with patches. J. Udall . patcher (pach'er), n. [ patcheries (-iz). [ patch tch + Bungling work; botchery; gro , bungling hypocrisy. Peyer's patches. Same as agminate glands or glands (which see, under gland ). II. a . Arranged in patches, or separate squares, or the like. These dots [impre ed upon prehistoric pottery] are so arranged as to form simply patch ornaments. Jewitt, Ceramic Art, I. 27. patch (pach), v. [ In the town there are not above two three hundred In habitants, who dwell here and there in the patcht up ruines. Sandys, Travailes, p. 160. With bits of wreck I patch the boat shall bear Me to that unexhausted Otherwhere. Lowell, to G. W. Curtis (P. S.). Especially-(a) To sew a piece of cloth upon garment) IMG:content-2452.png:[blocks in formation] filling interstices and fractures with new mortar or the like. (c) To substitute new work for, as for defaced or Partly destroyed in mosaic nying 2. To serve as a patch on. That that earth which kept the world in awe Should patch a wall. Shak . , Hamlet, v. 1. 239. 3. To adorn by putting a patch or patches on the face; also, to adorn with patches, as the face. But that which I did see, and wonder at with reason, was to find Pegg Pen in a new coach, with only her husband's pretty sister with her, both patched and very fine. Pepys , Diary, III. 120. Madam, who patch'd you to day? - Let me see-It is the hardest thing in dre - I may say without vanity - I know a little of it - That so low on the cheek pulps the flesh too much. Steele , Lying Lover, iii. 1. 4. To form of odd pieces or shreds; construct of ill-a orted parts or elements; hence, to make or mend hastily or without regard to forms: usually with up: as, to patch up a peace; to patch up a quarrel. If you'll patch a quarrel, As matter whole you have not to make it with, It must not be with this. Shak., A. and C., ii. 2. 52. It is many years since I learned it [a song]; and, having forgotten a part of it, I was forced to patch it up by the help of mine own invention, who am not excellent at poetry. I. Walton, Complete Angler, p. 176. They hate one another, but I will try to patch it up. Swift, Journal to Stella, lv. Thus Uncle Venner was a miscellaneous old gentleman, partly himself, but, in good measure, somebody else; patched together, too, of different epochs; an epitome of Hawthorne, Seven Gables, iv. times and fashions. 5. To fit or adjust with a patch or wad of leather, etc.: said of a rifle-ball. If the bullet is the right size and properly patched . Sportsman's Gazetteer , p. 545. Patching up plates, in printing , affixing overlays in proper places to remedy the defects of uneven plates. II. in trans. To form patches, as snow on a mountain-side, vegetation on a ruin, etc. Fletcher (and another ), Elder Brother, iii. 5. time I had given her leave to weare a black patch . Pepys , Diary, I. 120. 3. A small piece of leather, greased canvas, pasteboard, or the like, used as the wadding for Capable of being patched. Not patched or patchable any longer. Carlyle, in Froude. IMG:content-2453.jpg:[blocks in formation] or of being made up of patches. The movement, therefore, gives the impre ion of patch ine , despite the beauty of the melodies. Athenæum, No. 3188, p. 743. patching (pach'ing), n. [Verbal n. of patch , v.] 1. The act of mending by the addition of a patch or patches.-2. A patch, or patches collectively; a patched place. Leat the il favoured sight of the patching be hidden. J. Udall , On Luke v. 3. Wadding for a rifle-ball. Bob poured a large charge of powder into his gun, and, taking a bullet from his pouch, he felt in his pocket for the patching . E. Eggleston, The Graysons, xiii. 4. Patchery; hypocrisy. Blacks ton, being reproued for his false patching, fell in a quaking and shaking. Foxe, Martyrs, p. 1863, an. 1557. patchingly (pach'ing-li), (pach'ing-li), adv. In a patching, or bungling or hypocritical, manner. Others, though not so willing lie admitting them, did yet di embling lie and patching lie vse some part of them. Foxe , Martyrs, p. 1184, an. 1548. patchockt (pach'ok), n. [ patch + -ock .] A clown; a mean or paltry fellow. Some in Leinster and Ulster are degenerate, and growen to be as very patchockes as the wild Irish. Spenser , State of Ireland.