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▪ I. pate1|ˈpeɪt|
(Also 7, 9 pat.)
[In common use from c 1300: origin unknown.
Some have conjectured it to be a by-form of plate, comparing med.L. platta the clerical tonsure, and Du. and Ger. platte a shaven or bald head. But evidence is wanting.]
1. The head, the skull: more particularly applied to that part which is usually covered with hair. (In modern use, more or less ludicrous or humorous; not in serious or dignified use.)
c1305Judas 83 in E.E.P. (1862) 109 He smot him wiþ a ston behynde in þe pate Þat al þe sculle to-daschte þe brayn ful out þerate. c1394P. Pl. Crede 839 He miȝte no maistre ben kald (for Crist þat defended), Ne puten no pylion on his pild pate. c1430Lydg. Jack Hare Min. Poems (Percy Soc.) 54 Now wesseil N. unto thi jousy pate, Unthrift and thou to-gidre be mett. 1535Coverdale Ps. vii. 16 His vnhappynes shall come vpon his owne heade, and his wickednes shall fall vpon his owne pate. 1593Shakes. 2 Hen. VI, v. i. 135 He is a Traitor, let him to the Tower, And chop away that factious pate of his. a1604Hanmer Chron. Irel. (1809) 325 A foole..gave him such a blow upon the pat, that the blood ran downe his eares. 1616R. C. Times' Whistle iii. 969 Some curle their pates to make their lookes more faire. 1632Lithgow Trav. ix. 396 An Eagle taking his bald pate for a white rocke, let a shell⁓fish fall on it. 1810J. Cock Strains I. 136 (E.D.D.) Wi' powdered pats; The auld blue Bonnet's laid aside, They maun ha'e Hats. 188319th Cent. Dec. 1092 The stubbles are close shaven as a monk's pate.
2. The head as the seat of the intellect; hence put for skill, cleverness, ‘brains’, and formerly sometimes for a person possessed of such.
1610Shakes. Temp. iv. i. 244 Steale by line and leuell, is an excellent passe of pate. 1614Sylvester Bethulia's Rescue i. 109 The Able-most For Pate, Prowess, Purse. 1627–77Feltham Resolves i. xliii. 70 To lay the plot at first, well; is matter of more pate. 1630R. Johnson's Kingd. & Commw. 39 The greatest Sages of the kingdome,..and the best pates of Spaine. 1717Prior Alma iii. 355 An odd conceit, As ever enter'd Frenchman's pate. c1730Young Ep. to Pope 65 Each shallow pate, that cannot read your name, Can read your life, and will be proud to blame. 1899E. J. Chapman Drama Two Lives, Amph. & Ascid. 88 Made manifest to meanest pates.
3. The skin of a calf's head.
1687Lond. Gaz. No. 2225/4 Prohibiting the Exportation of all sorts of Linen Rags, Glovers Clippings, Parchment Shreads, Calves Pates. 1881Sci. Amer. XLIV. 408 [The hide] is sold to the salters with the pates and tails on.
b. In the fur trade, The fur from a black patch on the head of a rabbit or hare.
1878Ure's Dict. Arts IV. 381 At present hare wool is not sorted, but formerly it was divided into black back, brown back, sides, pate (useless), cheeks and tail, as in the case of rabbit wool.
▪ II. pate2 north. dial.|peɪt|
Also 7 payte, paite, 8 pait.
[Of obscure origin.
Perhaps from prec., in reference to the white top of its head, suggesting a bald pate.]
A badger. Also in Comb., pate-head.
1628Vestry Bks. (Surtees) 91 Whosoever shall take any fox, or pate, or badger, in this parish and bring the heade to the church, shall have twelve pence paid by the church-wardens. 1653Ibid. 194 To George Burne for a pate head, 6d. 1718Finghall Church-w. Acc. (MS.), For ȝ⊇ Pait Head, 1s. 1788W. Marshall Yorksh. II. Gloss. (E.D.S.), Pait, a badger. 1883T. & K. S. Macquoid About Yorksh. 126 The last pate is said to have been killed hereabouts some twenty-eight years ago.
▪ III. ‖ pate, n.5 N.Z.|paˈte|
[Maori.]
A small evergreen tree of New Zealand, Schefflera digitata, of the aralia family, with glossy leaves and soft wood which is sometimes used as tinder. See *patete n. b.
1832London Med. Gaz. 22 Sept. 794/1 Aralia polygama,..Paté of the natives of New Zealand. Ibid. 794/2 This tree is named Paté by the natives of New Zealand, and the wood is used by them for the purpose of procuring fire by friction. 1949E. C. Richards Our N.Z. Trees & Flowers (ed. 2) 45 Schefflera..digitata... It was one of the woods used by Maoris to make fire by aid of long continued rubbing with the firestick... Seven-Fingered Jack, pa-te or pa-te-te (creaking). 1978Moore & Irwin Oxford Bk. N.Z. Plants 96 Schefflera digitata, pate, seven-finger. 1986B. D. Clarkson Vegetation of Egmont National Park 13 The New Zealand Forest Service (1975) reported that in the lower altitude forests the main species depleted were Coprosma spp., pate (Schefflera digitata), karapapa (Alseuosmia macrophylla)..five-finger (Pseudopanax arboreus var. arboreus)..and hen and chicken fern. |