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Webster's Dictionary (1865)

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Patch

Pătch, n.

noun

n. [See infra.] 1. A piece of cloth sewed on a garment to repair it.

Sense 2. Hence, any thing resembling such a piece of cloth; a small piece of any thing used to repair a breach.

Two scattered patches of cottages lay nestled among their garden. Carlyle.

Sense 3. A small piece of silk used to cover a defect on the face, or to heighten beauty.

Sense 4. A small piece of cloth or leather used as the wrapper of a rifle-ball in wadding.

Sense 5. A piece inserted in mosaic or variegated work. Locke.

Sense 6. A small piece of ground; a small detached piece; a tract; a plot. Shak.

Sense 7. A paltry fellow; a rogue; a knave. [Obs. or colloq.] “Thou scurvy patch.” Shak.

Pătch, v. t.

verbtransitive

[imp. & p. p. PATCHED (pătcht); p. pr. & vb. n. PATCHING.] [Prov. Ger. patschen, batschen. Cf. BOTCH.]

Sense 1. To mend by sewing on a piece or pieces; as, to patch a coat.

Sense 2. To mend with pieces; to repair with pieces fastened on; to repair clumsily; as, to patch the roof of a house. Shak.

Sense 3. To adorn, as the face, with a patch or with patches.

In the middle boxes were several ladies who patched both sides of their faces. Spectator.

Sense 4. To make up of pieces and shreds; hence, to put together of ill-assorted parts; to make suddenly or hastily; — generally with up; to compose in a hasty, irregular, or botching way. “If you’ll patch a quarrel.” Shak. “The patched-up idol of enlightened days.” Byron.

He had thought it best to patch up a separate negotiation for himself. W. Scott.