pate /ˈpet/
 頭,腦袋,頭腦
 Pa·té a. Her. See Patté.
 Pa·té n.
 1. A pie. See Patty.
 2. Fort. A kind of platform with a parapet, usually of an oval form, and generally erected in marshy grounds to cover a gate of a fortified place. [R.]
 Pate n.
 1. The head of a person; the top, or crown, of the head. [Now generally used in contempt or ridicule.]
    His mischief shall return upon his own head, and his violent dealing shall come down upon his own pate.   --Ps. vii. 16.
    Fat paunches have lean pate.   --Shak.
 2. The skin of a calf's head.
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 pate
      n 1: liver or meat or fowl finely minced or ground and variously
           seasoned
      2: the top of the head [syn: poll, crown]