Found 1 items, similar to Rumex Patientia.
English → English (gcide) Definition: Rumex Patientia 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. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] Strengthened with all might, . . . unto all patience and long-suffering. --Col. i. 11. [1913 Webster] I must have patience to endure the load. --Shak. [1913 Webster] Who hath learned lowliness From his Lord's cradle, patience from his cross. --Keble. [1913 Webster] 2. The act or power of calmly or contentedly waiting for something due or hoped for; forbearance. [1913 Webster] Have patience with me, and I will pay thee all. --Matt. xviii. 29. [1913 Webster] 3. Constancy in labor or application; perseverance. [1913 Webster] He learned with patience, and with meekness taught. --Harte. [1913 Webster] 4. Sufferance; permission. [Obs.] --Hooker. [1913 Webster] They stay upon your patience. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 5. (Bot.) A kind of dock (Rumex Patientia), less common in America than in Europe; monk's rhubarb. [1913 Webster] 6. (Card Playing) Solitaire. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] 3. A piece of tinder made of agaric, used in firing the powder hose or train of a mine. [1913 Webster] 4. (Zo["o]l.) (a) A South American monkey (Pithecia monachus); also applied to other species, as Cebus xanthocephalus. (b) The European bullfinch. [1913 Webster] Monk bat (Zo["o]l.), a South American and West Indian bat (Molossus nasutus); -- so called because the males live in communities by themselves. Monk bird(Zo["o]l.), the friar bird. Monk seal (Zo["o]l.), 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). [1913 Webster]