Pat"tern, n. (Gun.) A
diagram showing the distribution of the pellets of a shotgun on a
vertical target perpendicular to the plane of fire.
Pat"tern (?), n. [OE. patron, F.
patron, a patron, also, a pattern. See Patron.]
1. Anything proposed for imitation; an archetype;
an exemplar; that which is to be, or is worthy to be, copied or
imitated; as, a pattern of a machine.
I will be the pattern of all
patience.
Shak.
2. A part showing the figure or quality of the
whole; a specimen; a sample; an example; an instance.
He compares the pattern with the whole
piece.
Swift.
3. Stuff sufficient for a garment; as, a dress
pattern.
4. Figure or style of decoration; design; as,
wall paper of a beautiful pattern.
5. Something made after a model; a copy.
Shak.
The patterns of things in the
heavens.
Heb. ix. 23.
6. Anything cut or formed to serve as a guide
to cutting or forming objects; as, a dressmaker's
pattern.
7. (Founding) A full-sized model around
which a mold of sand is made, to receive the melted metal. It is
usually made of wood and in several parts, so as to be removed from
the mold without injuring it.
Pattern box, chain, or
cylinder (Figure Weaving), devices, in a
loom, for presenting several shuttles to the picker in the proper
succession for forming the figure. -- Pattern
card. (a) A set of samples on a
card. (b) (Weaving) One of the
perforated cards in a Jacquard apparatus. -- Pattern
reader, one who arranges textile patterns. --
Pattern wheel (Horology), a count-
wheel.
Pat"tern, v. t. [imp. & p.
p. Patterned (?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Patterning.] 1. To make or design
(anything) by, from, or after, something that serves as a pattern; to
copy; to model; to imitate. Milton.
[A temple] patterned from that which Adam reared
in Paradise.
Sir T. Herbert.
2. To serve as an example for; also, to
parallel.
To pattern after, to imitate; to
follow.
Pat"tern, n. (Gun.) A
diagram showing the distribution of the pellets of a shotgun on a
vertical target perpendicular to the plane of fire.
