Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (n.) A piece of cloth, or other suitable material, sewed or otherwise fixed upon a garment to repair or strengthen it, esp. upon an old garment to cover a hole. 2. (n.) A small piece of anything used to repair a breach; as, a patch on a kettle, a roof, etc. 3. (n.) A small piece of black silk stuck on the face, or neck, to hide a defect, or to heighten beauty. 4. (n.) A piece of greased cloth or leather used as wrapping for a rifle ball, to make it fit the bore. 5. (n.) Fig.: Anything regarded as a patch; a small piece of ground; a tract; a plot; as, scattered patches of trees or growing corn. 6. (n.) A block on the muzzle of a gun, to do away with the effect of dispart, in sighting. 7. (n.) A paltry fellow; a rogue; a ninny; a fool. 8. (v. t.) To mend by sewing on a piece or pieces of cloth, leather, or the like; as, to patch a coat. 9. (v. t.) To mend with pieces; to repair with pieces fastened on; to repair clumsily; as, to patch the roof of a house. 10. (v. t.) To adorn, as the face, with a patch or patches. 11. (v. t.) To make of pieces or patches; to repair as with patches; to arrange in a hasty or clumsy manner; -- generally with up; as, to patch up a truce.

Multi-Version Concordance Patch (5 Occurrences) Matthew 9:16 No one puts a piece of unshrunk cloth on an old garment; for the patch would tear away from the garment, and a worse hole is made. (WEB WEY DBY YLT NAS RSV NIV) Mark 2:21 No one sews a piece of unshrunk cloth on an old garment, or else the patch shrinks and the new tears away from the old, and a worse hole is made. (WEB WEY DBY YLT NAS RSV NIV) Luke 5:36 He also spoke in figurative language to them. "No one," He said, "tears a piece from a new garment to mend an old one. Otherwise he would not only spoil the new, but the patch from the new would not match the old. (WEY YLT NIV) Proverbs 15:19 The way of the sluggard is like a thorn patch, but the path of the upright is a highway. (WEB) Jeremiah 10:5 They are like a palm tree, of turned work, and don't speak: they must be carried, because they can't go. Don't be afraid of them; for they can't do evil, neither is it in them to do good." (See NIV)