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<HTML> <HEAD><TITLE>PASTRYTU</TITLE></HEAD> <BODY BGCOLOR="#ffffff"> <A HREF="a.dic">A</A> <A HREF="b.dic">B</A> <A HREF="c.dic">C</A> <A HREF="d.dic">D</A> <A HREF="e.dic">E</A> <A HREF="f.dic">F</A> <A HREF="g.dic">G</A> <A HREF="h.dic">H</A> <A HREF="i.dic">I</A> <A HREF="j.dic">J</A> <A HREF="k.dic">K</A> <A HREF="l.dic">L</A> <A HREF="m.dic">M</A> <A HREF="n.dic">N</A> <A HREF="o.dic">O</A> <A HREF="p.dic">P</A> <A HREF="q.dic">Q</A> <A HREF="r.dic">R</A> <A HREF="s.dic">S</A> <A HREF="t.dic">T</A> <A HREF="u.dic">U</A> <A HREF="v.dic">V</A> <A HREF="w.dic">W</A> <A HREF="x.dic">X</A> <A HREF="y.dic">Y</A> <A HREF="z.dic">Z</A> <A NAME="pastrytube"> pastry tube,<DL COMPACT><DD> a small tube serving the same function as a pastry bag, equipped with a plunger to force out the decorative material. </DL> <A NAME="pasttense"> past tense,<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. the verbal tense expressing time gone by, or a former action or condition. The past tense is used either without reference to the duration of action (called the simple past or preterit or past absolute: Ex. He ran a mile yesterday) or as being in progress, recurring, or habitual (called past progressive or imperfect: He was running a mile when he fell). <DD> 2. a verb form or verbal phrase in this tense. </DL> <A NAME="pasturability"> pasturability, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the capability of affording pasture. </DL> <A NAME="pasturable"> pasturable, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> fit for use as pasture; affording pasture. </DL> <A NAME="pasturage"> pasturage, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. growing grass and other plants for cattle, sheep, or horses to feed on. Ex. Most livestock thrive on fresh spring pasturage. <DD> 2. =pastureland. <DD> 3. the act or right of pasturing cattle, sheep, or other grazing animals; pasturing. </DL> <A NAME="pastural"> pastural, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of or having to do with pasture. Ex. Our most common pastural ornaments, the daisy, buttercup, and primrose (Pall Mall Gazette). </DL> <A NAME="pasturalist"> pasturalist, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a keeper of flocks or herds; shepherd. Ex. The tribe were pasturalists, unlikely to surrender their nomadic ways (Manchester Guardian Weekly). </DL> <A NAME="pasture"> pasture, noun, verb, -tured, -turing.<DL COMPACT><DD>noun 1. a grassy field or hillside; grasslands on which cattle, sheep, horses, or other grazing animals can feed. Ex. To-morrow to fresh woods and pastures new (Milton). <DD> 2. the grass and other plants growing in a field or on a hillside. Ex. These lands afford good pasture. <DD> 3. any area which serves as a source of food for something. Ex. Drifting plankton pastures are as necessary for good fish nutrition as grasses and vegetation are for land animals (Science News Letter). <DD>v.t. 1. to put (cattle, sheep, horses, or other grazing animals) out to pasture. <DD> 2. (of cattle, sheep, or other grazing animals) to feed on (grass or other growing plants). <DD> 3. (of land) to supply pasturage for. <DD>v.i. 1. (of cattle, sheep, horses, or goats) to graze. Ex. There were smooth areas where sheep had pastured (W. H. Hudson). <DD> 2. (Obsolete.) to afford pasture. noun pasturer. </DL> <A NAME="pastureland"> pastureland, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> grassland used or suitable for the grazing of cattle, sheep, or horses; pasturage. </DL> <A NAME="pasturethistle"> pasture thistle,<DL COMPACT><DD> a biennial species of thistle of North America, with a purple flower. </DL> <A NAME="pasty"> pasty (1), adjective, pastier, pastiest.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. like paste, especially in texture. Ex. a pasty mixture. <DD> 2. pale; sallow. Ex. A little pasty woman with a pinched yellowish face (John Galsworthy). <DD> 3. (Figurative.) flabby. </DL> <A NAME="pasty"> pasty (2), noun, pl. -ties.<DL COMPACT><DD> a pie filled with meat, game, fish, or the like. Ex. a venison pasty. "Stary-gazy" is the Cornish word for fish pie or pasty (Punch). </DL> <A NAME="pastyfaced"> pasty-faced, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> having a pale, sallow complexion. Ex. pasty-faced stay-at-homes (Punch). </DL> <A NAME="pasystem"> P.A. system,<DL COMPACT><DD> public-address system. </DL> <A NAME="pat"> pat (1), verb, patted, patting, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD>v.t. 1. to strike or tap lightly with something flat or with the fingers or hand, especially so as to flatten or smooth. Ex. his foot patting the ground (Robert Louis Stevenson). She patted the dough into a flat cake. <DD> 2. to tap with the hand as a sign of sympathy, approval, or affection. Ex. to pat a dog. <DD>v.i. 1. to walk or run with a patting sound. <DD> 2. to strike lightly or gently. <DD>noun 1. a light stroke or tap with the hand or with something flat. Ex. a fatherly pat o' the cheek (Robert Browning). <DD> 2. the sound made by patting. Ex. the pat, pat of rain dripping from the eaves. <DD> 3. a small mass, especially of butter. Ex. a pat of butter melting on a hot potato. expr. pat on the back, <DD> a. to praise; compliment. Ex. "We have a mission to wake up the country," preaches the bushy-browed editor. "Instead of patting it on the back, we're kicking it" (Wall Street Journal). <DD> b. a word of praise; compliment. Ex. Congress gets an awful kicking around. ... I just wanted to give them a pat on the back (Hubert H. Humphrey). </DL> <A NAME="pat"> pat (2), adjective, adverb.<DL COMPACT><DD>adj. to the point; suitable; apt. Ex. a pat reply. When a Keats or an Alexander the Great is the subject, the explanation of his achievement is both too pat and too unenlightening; it is simply genius (Harper's). (SYN) appropriate, pertinent, relevant. <DD>adv. aptly; exactly; suitably. expr. have (down) pat or know pat, (Informal.) to have perfectly; know thoroughly. Ex. He ... had the whole story pat enough (Mrs. J. H. Riddell). expr. stand pat, <DD> a. (Informal.) to hold to things as they are and refuse to change. Ex. We can't just stand pat on this important issue. <DD> b. to refuse the opportunity to draw cards in poker; play the cards dealt. Ex. Holding a flush, I stood pat. adv. patly. noun patness. </DL> <A NAME="pat"> Pat, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a nickname for an Irishman. </DL> <A NAME="pat"> pat.,<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. patent. <DD> 2. patented. </DL> <A NAME="pat"> PAT (no periods),<DL COMPACT><DD> point after touchdown (in football). </DL> <A NAME="pataca"> pataca, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. a unit of Portuguese money worth 5.5 escudos, used as local currency in Macao. <DD> 2. a coin having this value. </DL> <A NAME="patacake"> pat-a-cake, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a children's game played by patting the hands together to a nursery rhyme. Also, patty-cake. </DL> <A NAME="patagial"> patagial, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of or having to do with a patagium. </DL> <A NAME="patagium"> patagium, noun, pl. -gia.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. a wing membrane, such as of a bat. <DD> 2. a fold of skin extending along the side of the body of certain gliding mammals and reptiles, as the flying squirrel. <DD> 3. the fold of skin between the upper arm and forearm of birds. <DD> 4. a small, flat sclerite above the wing base of many insects. </DL> <A NAME="patagonian"> Patagonian, adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD>adj. of or having to do with Patagonia, a region in the extreme south of South America, or its people. <DD>noun a native or inhabitant of Patagonia. </DL> <A NAME="patagoniancavy"> Patagonian cavy or hare, =mara.</DL> <A NAME="patamar"> patamar, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a lateen-rigged vessel with an upward-curving keel and considerable overhang of stern and especially stem, used in the coasting trade of western India. </DL> <A NAME="pataphysics"> pataphysics, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> an imaginary science satirizing scientific and scholarly thought and writing. Ex. Pataphysics was defined ... as a science that will 'examine the laws governing exceptions,' and describe 'a universe which can be--and perhaps should be--envisaged in the place of the traditional one' (Listener). </DL> <A NAME="patas"> patas, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a large, red, terrestrial monkey of western Africa. </DL> <A NAME="patball"> pat-ball, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the game of rounders. </DL> <A HREF="patch.dic">NEXT</A>