From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Patch \Patch\ (p[a^]ch), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Patched
(p[a^]cht); p. pr. & vb. n. Patching.]
1. To mend by sewing on a piece or pieces of cloth, leather,
or the like; as, to patch a coat.
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2. To mend with pieces; to repair with pieces festened on; to
repair clumsily; as, to patch the roof of a house.
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3. To adorn, as the face, with a patch or patches.
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Ladies who patched both sides of their faces.
--Spectator.
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4. To make of pieces or patches; to repair as with patches;
to arrange in a hasty or clumsy manner; -- generally with
up; as, to patch up a truce. "If you'll patch a quarrel."
--Shak.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Patch \Patch\, n. [OE. pacche; of uncertain origin, perh. for
placche; cf. Prov. E. platch patch, LG. plakk, plakke.]
1. A piece of cloth, or other suitable material, sewed or
otherwise fixed upon a garment to repair or strengthen it,
esp. upon an old garment to cover a hole.
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Patches set upon a little breach. --Shak.
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2. Hence: A small piece of anything used to repair a breach;
as, a patch on a kettle, a roof, etc.
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3. A small piece of black silk stuck on the face, or neck, to
hide a defect, or to heighten beauty.
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Your black patches you wear variously. --Beau. & Fl.
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4. (Gun.) A piece of greased cloth or leather used as
wrapping for a rifle ball, to make it fit the bore.
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5. Fig.: Anything regarded as a patch; a small piece of
ground; a tract; a plot; as, scattered patches of trees or
growing corn.
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Employed about this patch of ground. --Bunyan.
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6. (Mil.) A block on the muzzle of a gun, to do away with the
effect of dispart, in sighting.
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7. A paltry fellow; a rogue; a ninny; a fool. [Obs. or
Colloq.] "Thou scurvy patch." --Shak.
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Patch ice, ice in overlapping pieces in the sea.
Soft patch, a patch for covering a crack in a metallic
vessel, as a steam boiler, consisting of soft material, as
putty, covered and held in place by a plate bolted or
riveted fast.
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