patience

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. The capacity, quality, or fact of being patient.
2. n. Chiefly British The game solitaire.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. The quality of being patient. The power or capacity of physical endurance; ability to bear up against what affects the physical powers: as, patience of heat or of toil.
2. n. The character or habit of mind that enables one to suffer afflictions, calamity, provocation, or other evil, with a calm unruffled temper; endurance without murmuring or fretfulness; calmness; composure.
3. n. Quietness or calmness in waiting for something to happen; the cast or habit of mind that enables one to wait without discontent.
4. n. Forbearance; leniency; indulgence; long-suffering.
5. n. Constancy in labor or exertion; perseverance.
6. n. Sufferance; permission.
7. n. A plant, the patience dock. See dock
8. n. A card-game: same as solitaire.
9. n. Synonyms Patience, Fortitude., Endurance, Resignation. Patience is by derivation a virtue of suffering, but it is also equally an active virtue, as patience in industry, application, teaching. Passively, it is gentle, serene, self-possessed, without yielding its ground or repining; actively, it adds to so much of this spirit as may be appropriate to the situation a steady, watchful, untiring industry and faithfulness. Fortitude is the passive kind of patience, joined with notable courage. In endurance attention is directed to the fact of bearing labor, pain, contumely, etc., without direct implication as to the moral qualities required or shown. Resignation implies the voluntary submission of the will to a personal cause of affliction or loss; it is a high word, generally looking up to God as the controller of human life. Resignation is thus generally a submission or meekness, giving up or resigning personal desires to the will of God.

Wiktionary

1. n. The quality of being patient.
2. n. solitaire.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. 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.
2. n. The act or power of calmly or contentedly waiting for something due or hoped for; forbearance.
3. n. Constancy in labor or application; perseverance.
4. n. Sufferance; permission.
5. n. A kind of dock (Rumex Patientia), less common in America than in Europe; monk's rhubarb.
6. n. Solitaire.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. a card game played by one person
2. n. good-natured tolerance of delay or incompetence