rumex patientia

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rumex patientia - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Parella \Pa*rel"la\, Parelle \Pa`relle\, n. [Cf. F. parelle.]
     (Bot.)
     (a) A name for two kinds of dock (Rumex Patientia and
         Rumex Hydrolapathum).
     (b) A kind of lichen (Lecanora parella) once used in dyeing
         and in the preparation of litmus.
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  Patience \Pa"tience\ (p[=a]"shens), n. [F. patience, fr. L.
     patientia. See Patient.]
     1. The state or quality of being patient; the power of
        suffering with fortitude; uncomplaining endurance of evils
        or wrongs, as toil, pain, poverty, insult, oppression,
        calamity, etc.
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              Strengthened with all might, . . . unto all patience
              and long-suffering.                   --Col. i. 11.
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              I must have patience to endure the load. --Shak.
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              Who hath learned lowliness
              From his Lord's cradle, patience from his cross.
                                                    --Keble.
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     2. The act or power of calmly or contentedly waiting for
        something due or hoped for; forbearance.
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              Have patience with me, and I will pay thee all.
                                                    --Matt. xviii.
                                                    29.
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     3. Constancy in labor or application; perseverance.
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              He learned with patience, and with meekness taught.
                                                    --Harte.
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     4. Sufferance; permission. [Obs.] --Hooker.
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              They stay upon your patience.         --Shak.
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     5. (Bot.) A kind of dock (Rumex Patientia), less common in
        America than in Europe; monk's rhubarb.
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     6. (Card Playing) Solitaire.
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     Syn: Patience, Resignation.
  
     Usage: Patience implies the quietness or self-possession of
            one's own spirit under sufferings, provocations, etc.;
            resignation implies submission to the will of another.
            The Stoic may have patience; the Christian should have
            both patience and resignation.
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  Monk \Monk\, n. [AS. munuc, munec, munc, L. monachus, Gr. ?, fr.
     mo`nos alone. Cf. Monachism.]
     1. A man who retires from the ordinary temporal concerns of
        the world, and devotes himself to religion; one of a
        religious community of men inhabiting a monastery, and
        bound by vows to a life of chastity, obedience, and
        poverty. "A monk out of his cloister." --Chaucer.
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              Monks in some respects agree with regulars, as in
              the substantial vows of religion; but in other
              respects monks and regulars differ; for that
              regulars, vows excepted, are not tied up to so
              strict a rule of life as monks are.   --Ayliffe.
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     2. (Print.) A blotch or spot of ink on a printed page, caused
        by the ink not being properly distributed. It is
        distinguished from a friar, or white spot caused by a
        deficiency of ink.
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     3. A piece of tinder made of agaric, used in firing the
        powder hose or train of a mine.
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     4. (Zool.)
        (a) A South American monkey (Pithecia monachus); also
            applied to other species, as Cebus xanthocephalus.
        (b) The European bullfinch.
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     Monk bat (Zool.), a South American and West Indian bat
        (Molossus nasutus); -- so called because the males live
        in communities by themselves.
  
     Monk bird(Zool.), the friar bird.
  
     Monk seal (Zool.), a species of seal (Monachus  albiventer
        ) inhabiting the Black Sea, the Mediterranean
        Sea, and the adjacent parts of the Atlantic.
  
     Monk's rhubarb (Bot.), a kind of dock; -- also called
        patience (Rumex Patientia).
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