Bible Dictionaries
Patch

Webster's Dictionary

(1):

(n.) Fig.: Anything regarded as a patch; a small piece of ground; a tract; a plot; as, scattered patches of trees or growing corn.

(2):

(v. t.) To adorn, as the face, with a patch or patches.

(3):

(v. t.) To make of pieces or patches; to repair as with patches; to arrange in a hasty or clumsy manner; - generally with up; as, to patch up a truce.

(4):

(n.) A piece of cloth, or other suitable material, sewed or otherwise fixed upon a garment to repair or strengthen it, esp. upon an old garment to cover a hole.

(5):

(n.) A small piece of anything used to repair a breach; as, a patch on a kettle, a roof, etc.

(6):

(n.) A small piece of black silk stuck on the face, or neck, to hide a defect, or to heighten beauty.

(7):

(v. t.) To mend by sewing on a piece or pieces of cloth, leather, or the like; as, to patch a coat.

(8):

(v. t.) To mend with pieces; to repair with pieces festened on; to repair clumsily; as, to patch the roof of a house.

(9):

(n.) A block on the muzzle of a gun, to do away with the effect of dispart, in sighting.

(10):

(n.) A paltry fellow; a rogue; a ninny; a fool.

(11):

(n.) A piece of greased cloth or leather used as wrapping for a rifle ball, to make it fit the bore.

Bibliography Information
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Patch'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​p/patch.html. 1828.