pate Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun liver or meat or fowl finely minced or ground and variously seasoned
  2. noun the top of the head
    crown; poll.

WordNet

Pa`té" adjective (Also<
  • Pate
  • Paté
)
Definitions
  1. (Her.) See Patté.
Pa`té" noun (Also<
  • Pate
  • Paté
)
Etymology
F. pâté.
Definitions
  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. R.
Pate noun
Etymology
Cf. LG. & Prov. G. pattkopf, patzkopf, scabby head; patt, patz, scab + kopf head.
Definitions
  1. The head of a person; the top, or crown, of the head. Now generally used in contempt or ridicule. esp., bald pate
    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.

Webster 1913