单词 | pate |
释义 | paten.1 1. a. The head, the skull; spec. the crown of the head, now esp. of a bald head. Also: †the hair covering the crown (obsolete rare). Now archaic and humorous. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > top of head > [noun] nolleOE mouldOE shodec1000 topa1225 patea1325 polla1325 hattrelc1330 skullc1380 foretop1382 pommelc1385 summita1425 sconce1567 vertex1634 cantle1822 a1325 Judas Iscariot (Corpus Cambr.) 83 in C. D'Evelyn & A. J. Mill S. Eng. Legendary (1956) 695 He smot him mid a ston bihinde in þe pate. a1425 Medulla Gram. (Stonyhurst) f. 33v Imeon, pate of þe hede. c1475 (a1449) J. Lydgate Minor Poems (1934) ii. 447 (MED) Wassail to Maymond and to his Iousy pate; Vnthryfft and he be to-gedre met. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Psalms vii. 16 His vnhappynes shall come vpon his owne heade, and his wickednes shall fall vpon his owne pate. c1600 (?c1395) Pierce Ploughman's Crede (Trin. Cambr. R.3.15) (1873) 839 He miȝte no maistre þen [read ben] kald..Ne puten on pylion on his pild pate. 1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. ix. 396 An Eagle taking his bald pate for a white rocke, let a shell-fish fall on it. 1709 Brit. Apollo 23–28 Sept. He only got a Broken Pate, Turn'd out to Grass from all Demisals. 1790 J. Fisher Poems Var. Subj. 71 I' the ha' right lang he sat Amang the servants, wi' bare pat. 1840 F. Marryat Poor Jack viii. 42 His pate nearly bald; but on the sides of his head the hair was long and flowing. 1883 19th Cent. Dec. 1092 The stubbles are close shaven as a monk's pate. 1905 Baroness Orczy Scarlet Pimpernel ii. 14 Portly in build, jovial in countenance and somewhat bald of pate. 1932 ‘B. Ross’ Trag. of X i. i. 57 His tattered cloth hat perched grotesquely atop his bald pate. 1967 S. Mackay Old Crow iv. 19 Comb your hair across your pate dear. 2001 J. Waterman Arctic Crossing ii. 142 The arctic terns begin swooping by..and dragging their tiny talons across my pate. b. Usually derogatory. As the second element of a compound denoting a person with a mind of a specified quality or an intellect of a particular type. Cf. muddle-pate n., addle-pate n. at addle n. and adj. Compounds. ΚΠ c1525 Bk. Mayd Emlyn sig. A.iiiv [She] Made hym a fole And called hym dodypate. 1601 A. Munday & H. Chettle Death Earle of Huntington sig. A2 I & my mates, like addle-pates, inuiting great States, to see our last play. 1730 E. Young Two Epist. to Pope ii. 30 Each shallow pate, that cannot read your name, Can read your life, and will be proud to blame. 1798 J. Baillie Tryal ii. i, in Series Plays Stronger Passions I. 214 Damn your muddle pate. 1822 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Nov. 643/1 He that produces anything like a passable duty-man out of all these dunder-pates. 1964 Listener 24 Dec. 1002/1 That complicated shallow-pate, Jean-Paul Sartre,..makes of his subjective and personal passions a sort of objective truth. 2. The intellect, intelligence; a person's mind or brain. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > understanding > intelligence, cleverness > [noun] i-witc888 anyitOE understandinga1050 ferec1175 skillwisenessa1200 quaintisec1300 brainc1325 cunning1340 reder1340 cunningnessa1400 sentencec1400 intelligence?1435 speculation1471 ingeny1474 cunningheadc1475 capacity1485 pregnancyc1487 dexterity1527 pregnance?1533 shift1542 wittiness1543 ingeniousness1555 conceitedness1576 pate1598 conceit1604 ingeniosity1607 dexterousness1622 talent1622 ingenuousness1628 solertiousnessa1649 ingenuity1651 partedness1654 brightness1655 solerty1656 prettiness1674 long head1694 long lega1705 cleverness1755 smartness1800 cleverality1828 brain power1832 knowledgeability1834 braininess1876 cerebrality1901 the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > [noun] > as seat of mind noddle1579 pate1598 the (also one's) upper storey (also storeys)1699 gourda1844 1598 W. Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost i. i. 26 Fat paunches haue leane pates: and daynty bits Make rich the ribbes, but bancrout quite the wits. 1614 J. Sylvester Bethulia's Rescue i. 109 The Able-most For Pate, Prowess, Purse. 1630 tr. G. Botero Relations Famous Kingdomes World (rev. ed.) 39 The greatest Sages of the kingdome,..and the best pates of Spaine. 1717 M. Prior Alma iii. 355 An odd conceit, As ever enter'd Frenchman's pate. 1819 W. Scott Ivanhoe I. i. 16 It is but too true doctrine, friend Wamba, however it got into thy fool's pate! 1899 E. J. Chapman Amphioxus & Ascidian in Drama Two Lives 88 Made manifest to meanest pates. 1914 L. Woolf Let. 14 Mar. (1990) 206 I am..feeling much more secure in the pate than I've done for many a long day. 1949 M. McLuhan Let. 22 Feb. (1987) 211 May my pate become a glue-pot if I don't try to get that book reprinted. a. The skin of a calf's head. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > skin or hide > [noun] > calf-skin > part of pate1673 1673 Leith Customs f. 5, in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue (at cited word) 2 matts caifes pates valued 25 d. [£1.5.0.] 1687 London Gaz. No. 2225/4 Prohibiting the Exportation of all sorts of Linen Rags, Glovers Clippings, Parchment Shreads, Calves Pates. 1881 Sci. Amer. 44 408 [The hide] is sold to the salters with the pates and tails on. 1885 A. Watt Leather Manuf. 229 Since the sweating is more rapid above than below..it would be better if the pates and butts could be suspended higher than the bellies and shoulders. b. The fur from a black patch on the head of a rabbit or hare. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > skin or hide > skin with hair attached or fur > [noun] > of rabbit > part of pate1878 1878 R. Hunt & F. W. Rudler Ure's Dict. Arts (ed. 7) 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. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). paten.2 English regional (northern). Now rare. A (European) badger. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Mustelidae (weasel, marten, otter, or badger) > [noun] > genus Meles (badger) brockc1000 bausona1375 greyc1425 das1481 badger?1523 taxus1535 barrow1552 pate1628 sand-badger1873 society > armed hostility > defence > defensive work(s) > earthwork or rampart > [noun] > parapet > ground surrounded by pate1718 1628 in J. Barmby Churchwardens' Accts. Pittington (1888) 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. 1653 in J. Barmby Churchwardens' Accts. Pittington (1888) 194 To George Burne for a pate head, 6d. 1718 Finghall Churchwardens' Accts. (MS) For ȝe Pait Head, 1s. 1788 W. Marshall Provincialisms E. Yorks. in Rural Econ. Yorks. II. 345 Pait, a badger. 1883 K. S. Macquoid About Yorksh. 126 The last pate is said to have been killed hereabouts some twenty-eight years ago. 1888 Yorks. Notes & Queries 2 16 Brocks, old name for badgers, or pates. 1928 A. E. Pease Dict. Dial. N. Riding Yorks. 92/2 Pait, a badger... Pait as a name for the badger has not been in use, as far as I know, in the N.R. since the eighteenth century. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). paten.4 New Zealand. A small evergreen forest tree of New Zealand, Schefflera digitata (family Araliaceae), with glossy leaves and soft wood sometimes used as tinder; = patete n. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > non-British trees or shrubs > Australasian trees > [noun] > evergreens pine1788 angophora1804 ohia1815 pate1832 pohutukawa1832 Moreton Bay chestnut1836 Olearia1839 horopito1847 ramarama1848 matipo1853 white pine1856 musk tree1866 manoao1867 patete1867 puka1867 rangiora1867 tawhiri1872 tarata1876 lemon-wood1879 Otago ivy-tree1883 horizontal1888 lehua1888 inanga1889 mountain pine1889 puka1889 Queensland kauri1889 sheep-bush1889 wilga1889 mutton-bird tree1891 tree-daisy1926 1832 London Med. Gaz. 22 Sept. 794/1 Aralia polygama,..Paté of the natives of New Zealand. 1838 J. S. Polack New Zealand II. 400 Paté..trunk slender, and pithy, grows to twenty feet. 1844 J. B. Williams N.Z. Jrnl. (1956) 107 The Pate tree is by no means handsome as a tree or shrub. 1949 E. 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). 1988 J. Dawson Forest Vines to Snow Tussocks 103 Other common shrubs are the..kanono..and pate. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.1a1325n.21628n.41832 |
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