Word Meanings - PAT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To strike gently with the fingers or hand; to stroke lightly; to tap; as, to pat a dog. Gay pats my shoulder, and you vanish quite. Pope.

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• STROKER
  One who strokes; also, one who pretends to cure by stroking. Cures worked by Greatrix the stroker. Bp. Warburton.
• SHOULDER
  The joint, or the region of the joint, by which the fore limb is connected with the body or with the shoulder girdle; the projection formed by the bones and muscles about that joint. 2. The flesh and muscles connected with the shoulder joint; the
• SHOULDER-SHOTTEN
  Sprained in the shoulder, as a horse. Shak.
• SHOULDERED
  Having shoulders; -- used in composition; as, a broad- shouldered man. "He was short-shouldered." Chaucer.
• STRIKE
  Strucken ; p. pr. & vb. n. Striking. Struck is more commonly proceed, flow, AS. strican to go, proceed, akin to D. strijken to rub, stroke, strike, to move, go, G. streichen, OHG. strihhan, L. stringere to touch lightly, to graze, to strip off
• VANISHMENT
  A vanishing.
• STROKESMAN
  The man who rows the aftermost oar, and whose stroke is to be followed by the rest. Totten.
• VANISH
  esvanuïr, F. s'évanouir; fr. L. vanus empty, vain; cf. L. vanescere, 1. To pass from a visible to an invisible state; to go out of sight; to disappear; to fade; as, vapor vanishes from the sight by being dissipated; a ship vanishes from the sight
• STRIKER
  1. One who, or that which, strikes; specifically, a blacksmith's helper who wieds the sledge. 2. A harpoon; also, a harpooner. Wherever we come to an anchor, we always send out our strikers, and put out hooks and lines overboard, to try
• GENTLY
  In a gentle manner. My mistress gently chides the fault I made. Dryden.
• STROKE
  Struck.
• QUITE
  See CHAUCER
• VANISHING
  a. & n. from Vanish, v. Vanishing fraction , a fraction which reduces to the form Math. Dict. -- Vanishing line , the intersection of the parallel of any original plane and picture; one of the lines converging to the vanishing point. -- Vanishing
• LIGHTLY
  1. With little weight; with little force; as, to tread lightly; to press lightly. Yet shall thy grave with rising flowers be drest, And the green turf lie lightly on thy breast. Pope. Him thus intent Ithuriel with his spear Touched lightly. Milton.
• HUMP-SHOULDERED
  Having high, hunched shoulders. Hawthorne.
• SESQUITERTIAL
  Sesquitertian.
• SESQUITERTIAN; SESQUITERTIANAL
  Having the ratio of one and one third to one .
• CRAWL STROKE
  A racing stroke, in which the swimmer, lying flat on the water with face submerged, takes alternate overhand arm strokes while moving his legs up and down alternately from the knee.
• BY-STROKE
  An accidental or a slyly given stroke.
• MESQUITE BEAN
  The pod or seed of the mesquite.
• NEGLIGENTLY
  In a negligent manner.
• MESQUITE; MESQUIT
  A name for two trees of the southwestern part of North America, the honey mesquite, and screw-pod mesquite. Honey mesquite. See Algaroba . -- Screw-pod mesquite, a smaller tree , having spiral pods used as fodder and sometimes as food
• SPLIT SHOT; SPLIT STROKE
  In croquet, etc., a shot or stroke in which one drives in different directions one's own and the opponent's ball placed in contact.
• INTELLIGENTLY
  In an intelligent manner; with intelligence.
• EQUITES
  An order of knights holding a middle place between the senate and the commonalty; members of the Roman equestrian order.
• EQUITEMPORANEOUS
  Contemporaneous. Boyle.
• INDULGENTLY
  In an indulgent manner; mildly; favorably. Dryden.
• SQUITEE
  The squeteague; -- called also squit.