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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
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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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