3. (Angling)
Defn: A line with a row of hooks and bead Paternoster pump,
Paternoster wheel, a chain pump; a noria.
— Paternoster while, the space of time required for repeating a
paternoster. Udall.
PATESI
Pa*te"si, n. [Assyrian.] (Babylonian Antiq.)
Defn: A religious as well as a secular designation applied to rulers of some of the city states of ancient Chaldea, as Lagash or Shirpurla, who were conceived to be direct representatives of the tutelary god of the place.
PATH Path, n.; pl. Paths. Etym: [As. pad, G. pfad, of uncertain origin; cf. Gr. patha, path. sq. root21.]
1. A trodden way; a footway. The dewy paths of meadows we will tread. Dryden.
2. A way, course, or track, in which anything moves or has moved; route; passage; an established way; as, the path of a meteor, of a caravan, of a storm, of a pestilence. Also used figuratively, of a course of life or action. All the paths of the Lord are mercy and truth. Ps. xxv. 10. The paths of glory lead but to the grave. Gray.
PATH
Path, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Pathed; pr.p. & vb. n. Pathing.]
Defn: To make a path in, or on (something), or for (some one). [R.]
"Pathing young Henry's unadvised ways." Drayton.
PATH
Path, v. i.