Patience
n.- 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.
- The act or power of calmly or contentedly waiting for something due or hoped for; forbearance.
- Constancy in labor or application; perseverance.
- Sufferance; permission.
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(Bot.) A kind of dock (
Rumex Patientia ), less common in America than in Europe; monk's rhubarb. - (Card Playing) Solitaire.

