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PAT'ENT, a. [L. patens, from pateo, to open.]

1. In botany, spreading; forming an acute angle with the stem or branch; as a patent leaf. [See Letter.]

2. Open to the perusal of all; as letters patent. [See Letter.]

3. Appropriated by letters patent.

Madder--in the time of Charles the first, was made a patent commodity.

4. Apparent; conspicuous.

PAT'ENT, n. A writing given by the proper authority and duly authenticated, granting a privilege to some person or persons. By patent, or letters patent, that is, open letters, the king of Great Britain grants lands, honors and franchises.

PAT'ENT, v.t. To grant by patent.

1. To secure the exclusive right of a thing to a person; as, to patent an invention or an original work to the author.



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PAT'ENT, a. [L. patens, from pateo, to open.]

1. In botany, spreading; forming an acute angle with the stem or branch; as a patent leaf. [See Letter.]

2. Open to the perusal of all; as letters patent. [See Letter.]

3. Appropriated by letters patent.

Madder--in the time of Charles the first, was made a patent commodity.

4. Apparent; conspicuous.

PAT'ENT, n. A writing given by the proper authority and duly authenticated, granting a privilege to some person or persons. By patent, or letters patent, that is, open letters, the king of Great Britain grants lands, honors and franchises.

PAT'ENT, v.t. To grant by patent.

1. To secure the exclusive right of a thing to a person; as, to patent an invention or an original work to the author.

PAT'ENT, a. [Fr. from L. patens, from pateo, to open; Gr. πεταω, Ch. פסה, to open, dilate or expand; Syr. and Sam. id. Class Bd, No. 63, 64, 65.]

  1. Open; spread; expanded.
  2. In botany, spreading; forming an acute angle nearly approaching to a right angle with the stem or branch; as, a patent leaf. – Martyn.
  3. Open to the perusal of all; as, letters patent. [See Letter.]
  4. Appropriated by letters patent. Madder … in the time of Charles the First, was made a patent commodity. – Mortimer.
  5. Apparent; conspicuous. – Horsley.

PAT'ENT, n.

A writing given by the proper authority and duly authenticated, granting a privilege to some person or persons. By patent, or letters patent, that is, open letters, the king of Great Britain grants lands, honors and franchises.


PAT'ENT, v.t.

  1. To grant by patent.
  2. To secure the exclusive right of a thing to a person; as, to patent an invention or an original work to the author.

Pat"ent
  1. Open; expanded; evident; apparent; unconcealed; manifest; public; conspicuous.

    He had received instructions, both patent and secret. Motley.

  2. A letter patent, or letters patent; an official document, issued by a sovereign power, conferring a right or privilege on some person or party.

    Specifically: (a)
  3. To grant by patent] to make the subject of a patent; to secure or protect by patent; as, to patent an invention; to patent public lands.
  4. Open to public perusal; -- said of a document conferring some right or privilege; as, letters patent. See Letters patent, under 3d Letter.
  5. The right or privilege conferred by such a document; hence, figuratively, a right, privilege, or license of the nature of a patent.

    If you are so fond over her iniquity, give her patent to offend. Shak.

  6. Appropriated or protected by letters patent; secured by official authority to the exclusive possession, control, and disposal of some person or party; patented; as, a patent right; patent medicines.

    Madder . . . in King Charles the First's time, was made a patent commodity. Mortimer.

  7. Spreading; forming a nearly right angle with the steam or branch; as, a patent leaf.

    Patent leather, a varnished or lacquered leather, used for boots and shoes, and in carriage and harness work. -- Patent office, a government bureau for the examination of inventions and the granting of patents. -- Patent right. (a) The exclusive right to an invention, and the control of its manufacture. (b) (Law) The right, granted by the sovereign, of exclusive control of some business of manufacture, or of the sale of certain articles, or of certain offices or prerogatives. -- Patent rolls, the registers, or records, of patents.

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patent

PAT'ENT, a. [L. patens, from pateo, to open.]

1. In botany, spreading; forming an acute angle with the stem or branch; as a patent leaf. [See Letter.]

2. Open to the perusal of all; as letters patent. [See Letter.]

3. Appropriated by letters patent.

Madder--in the time of Charles the first, was made a patent commodity.

4. Apparent; conspicuous.

PAT'ENT, n. A writing given by the proper authority and duly authenticated, granting a privilege to some person or persons. By patent, or letters patent, that is, open letters, the king of Great Britain grants lands, honors and franchises.

PAT'ENT, v.t. To grant by patent.

1. To secure the exclusive right of a thing to a person; as, to patent an invention or an original work to the author.

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importance

IMPORT'ANCE, n.

1. Weight; consequence; a bearing on some interest; that quality of any thing by which it may affect a measure, interest or result. The education of youth is of great importance to a free government. A religious education is of infinite importance to every human being.

2. Weight or consequence in the scale of being.

Thy own importance know.

Nor bound thy narrow views to things below.

3. Weight or consequence in self-estimation.

He believes himself a man of importance.

4. Thing implied; matter; subject; importunity. [In these senses, obsolete.]

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without

WITHOUT, prep.

1. Not with; as without success.

2. In a state of destitution or absence from.

There is no living with thee nor without thee.

3. In a state of destitution or absence from.

There is no living with thee nor without thee.

4. Beyond; not within.

Eternity, before the world and after, is without our reach.

5. Supposing the negation or omission of.

Without the separation of the two monarchies, the most advantageous terms from the French must end in our destruction.

6. Independent of; not by the use of. Men like to live without labor.

Wise men will do it without a law.

7. On the outside of; as without the gate; without doors.

8. With exemption from. That event cannot happen without great damage to our interests.

9. Unless; except.

Without, when it precedes a sentence or member of a sentence, has been called a conjunction. This is a mistake. You will not enjoy health, without you use much exercise. In this sentence, without is a preposition still, but followed by a member of a sentence, instead of a single noun. It has no property of a connective or conjunction, and does not fall within the definition. You will not enjoy health, this fact following being removed, or not taking place; you use exercise. This use of without, is nearly superseded by unless and except, among good writers and speakers; but is common in popular discourse or parlance.

WITHOUT, adv.

1. Not on the inside; not within.

These were from without the growing miseries.

2. Out of doors.

3. Externally; not in the mind.

Without were fightings, within were fears. 2 Corinthians 7.

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