Definition of "pate"

For his vnhappynes ſhall come vpon his owne heade, ⁊ his wickednes ſhall fall vpon his owne pate.

1535 October 14 (Gregorian calendar), Myles Coverdale, transl., Biblia: The Byble, […] (Coverdale Bible), [Cologne or Marburg: Eucharius Cervicornus and J. Soter?], Psalm vij:, folio xiij, recto, column 2

The whole benighted, blooming crew,The Puddin'-thieves, the Usher too,Are being beaten black and blueWith bottles on the pate.

1918, Norman Lindsay, The Magic Pudding, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 167

I am reſolued, tis but a thee yeeres faſt:The minde ſhall banquet, though the body pine,Fat paunches haue leane pates: and daynty bitsMake rich the ribbes, but banerout quite the wits.

c. 1595–1596 (date written), W. Shakespere [i.e., William Shakespeare], A Pleasant Conceited Comedie Called, Loues Labors Lost. […] (First Quarto), London: […] W[illiam] W[hite] for Cut[h]bert Burby, published 1598; republished as Shakspere’s Loves Labours Lost (Shakspere-Quarto Facsimiles; no. 5), London: W[illiam] Griggs, […], [Act I, scene i]

I thank thee for that ieſt; heer’s a garment for’t:Wit ſhall not goe vn-rewarded while I am King of thisCountry: Steale by line and leuell, is an excellent paſſeof pate: there’s another garment for’t.

1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act IV, scene i], page 16, column 1