Definition of Pate

a.1.(Her.) See Patté.
n.1.A pie. See Patty.
2.(Fort.) A kind of platform with a parapet, usually of an oval form, and generally erected in marshy grounds to cover a gate of a fortified place.
1.The head of a person; the top, or crown, of the head.
His mischief shall return upon his own head, and his violent dealing shall come down upon his own pate.
- Ps. vii. 16.
Fat paunches have lean pate.
- Shak.
2.The skin of a calf's head.


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