pate > define

noun

• Liver or meat or fowl finely minced or ground and variously seasoned.
• The top of the head.
  • synonyms: poll, crown

• (n.) A pie. See Patty.
• (a.) See Patte.
• (n.) The skin of a calf's head.
• (n.) The head of a person; the top or crown, of the head.
• (n.) 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.