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pate

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pate  (pt)
n.
1. The human head, especially the top of the head: a bald pate.
2. The mind or brain.

[Middle English.]

pated (ptd) adj.

pate [peɪt]
n
(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Anatomy) the head, esp with reference to baldness or (in facetious use) intelligence
[of unknown origin]
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.patepate - liver or meat or fowl finely minced or ground and variously seasoned
paste, spread - a tasty mixture to be spread on bread or crackers or used in preparing other dishes
duck pate - a pate made from duck liver
foie gras, pate de foie gras - a pate made from goose liver (marinated in Cognac) and truffles
2.pate - the top of the head
human head - the head of a human being
tonsure - the shaved crown of a monk's or priest's head
top side, upper side, upside, top - the highest or uppermost side of anything; "put your books on top of the desk"; "only the top side of the box was painted"
Translations
pate (o.f.) [peɪt] Nmollera f, testa f
bald patecalva f
pate [ˈpeɪt] n
a bald pate → un crâne chauve, un crâne dégarni
pate
nRübe f (inf), → Birne f (inf); bald patePlatte f (inf), → Glatze f
pate [peɪt] n a bald pateuna testa pelata
pate [peɪt] n a bald pateuna testa pelata


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A Fly came up and kept buzzing about his bald pate, and stinging him from time to time.
Now by the bright eyes of Nan o' the Mill, and by mine own name and that's Wat o' the Crabstaff, and by mine own mother's son, and that's myself, will I, even I, Wat o' the Crabstaff, meet this same sturdy rogue, and gin he mind not the seal of our glorious sovereign King Harry, and the warrant of the good Sheriff of Nottinghamshire, I will so bruise, beat, and bemaul his pate that he shall never move finger or toe again
' said the friar; ``wait but till have changed this grey gown for a green cassock, and if I make not a quarter-staff ring twelve upon thy pate, I am neither true clerk nor good woodsman.
 
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