Patience

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun Sufferance; permission.

II. Patience ·noun Solitaire.

III. Patience ·noun Constancy in labor or application; perseverance.

IV. Patience ·noun A kind of dock (Rumex Patientia), less common in America than in Europe; monk's rhubarb.

V. Patience ·noun The act or power of calmly or contentedly waiting for something due or hoped for; forbearance.

VI. Patience ·noun 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.