pattern, patarne, patterne

[French patron =(1) a patron, (2) a pattern.] [PATRON.] I. Ordinary Language : 1. A model proposed or prepared for imitation; that which is to be copied or imitated. 2. An example to be followed or imitated; a model, an exemplar. dent. "Our ancestry, a gallant Christian race, Patterns of every virtue, every grace, Confe ed a God." Cowper : Table Talk , 373. 3. Something resembling something else; a prece"We could find some patterns of our shame." Shakesp.: King John , iii. 4. 4. Something of supreme excellence, and fit to serve as a model or example. "[He] spoke abrupt: Farewell to thee, Pattern of old fidelity!" Scott: Lady of the Lake, ii. 37. 5. Something made after a model; a copy. 6. An instance, an example. 7. A part showing the nature or quality of the whole; a sample, a specimen. 8. A figure, plan, or style of ornamental execution; an ornamental design. "The pattern grows, the well-depicted flower, Wrought patiently into the snowy lawn." Cowper : Task , iv. 151. 9. A piece of paper, card-board, sheet-metal, or thin plank corresponding in outline to an object that is to be cut out or fabricated, and serving as a guide for determining its exact shape and dimensions, [TEMPLATE.) Pattern-pieces or gauges are largely used in making special machinery, in which all the parts are made separately by gauges, and then put together. 10. A feast or merrymaking in honor of a patron saint; festivities, merry-making. (Irish.) "At wake or pattern she had all the best boys at her command." -Mrs . Hall : Sketches of Irish Character, p. 58. II. Technically : 1. Fabric : A design of figures, woven in cloth or printed thereon. 2. Founding: The counterpart of a casting in wood or metal from which the mold in the sand is made. pattern-box, 8. Weaving: 1. A box in a loom holding a number of shuttles, either of which may be projected along the shed. The shuttles are operated in due sequence by a pattern-cylinder or pattern-chain (q. v.). 2. The box perforated for the cards in the Jacquard figure-loom. [PATTERN-CARD.] pattern-card, s. Weaving: One of the cards perforated in a Jacquard loom through which the needles pa . Tho pattern is determined by the perforations. pattern-chain, s. IMG:content-0760.png:[blocks in formation] patterns.