| Patness | n. Fitness or appropriateness; striking suitableness; convenience. [ 1913 Webster ] The description with equal patness may suit both. Barrow. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Payne's process | A process for preserving timber and rendering it incombustible by impregnating it successively with solutions of sulphate of iron and calcium chloride in vacuo. -- |
| payne |
| payne's grey | (n) any pigment that produces a greyish to dark greyish blue, Syn. Payne's gray |