Chapter 1098

Pan , v. t. & i. [Cf. F. pan skirt, lappet, L. pannus a cloth, rag, W. panu to fur, to full.] To join or fit together; to unite. [Obs.]

Halliwell.

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Pan (?) , n. [Hind. p\'ben , Skr. parna leaf.] The betel leaf; also, the masticatory made of the betel leaf, etc. See <?/etel .

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Pan (?) , n. [L., fr. Gr. <?/.] (Gr. Myth.) The god of shepherds, guardian of bees, and patron of fishing and hunting. He is usually represented as having the head and trunk of a man, with the legs, horns, and tail of a goat, and as playing on the shepherd's pipe, which he is said to have invented.

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Pan , n. [OE. panne , AS. panne ; cf. D. pan , G. pfanne , OHG. pfanna , Icel., Sw., LL., & Ir. panna , of uncertain origin; cf. L. patina , E. paten .] 1. A shallow, open dish or vessel, usually of metal, employed for many domestic uses, as for setting milk for cream, for frying or baking food, etc.; also employed for various uses in manufacturing. "A bowl or a pan ."

Chaucer.

2. (Manuf.) A closed vessel for boiling or evaporating. See Vacuum pan , under Vacuum .

3. The part of a flintlock which holds the priming.

4. The skull, considered as a vessel containing the brain; the upper part of the head; the brainpan; the cranium.

Chaucer.

5. (C<?/rp.) A recess, or bed, for the leaf of a hinge.

6. The hard stratum of earth that lies below the soil. See Hard pan , under Hard .

7. A natural basin, containing salt or fresh water, or mud.

Flash in the pan . See under Flash . -- To savor of the pan , to suggest the process of cooking or burning; in a theological sense, to be heretical.

Ridley. Southey.

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Pan , v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Panned (?) ; p. pr. & vb. n. Panning .] (Mining) To separate, as gold, from dirt or sand, by washing in a kind of pan. [U. S.]

We . . . witnessed the process of cleaning up and panning out, which is the last process of separating the pure gold from the fine dirt and black sand. Gen. W. T. Sherman.

Pan <Xpage=1035>

Pan , v. i. 1. (Mining) To yield gold in, or as in, the process of panning; -- usually with out ; as, the gravel panned out richly .

2. To turn out (profitably or unprofitably); to result; to develop; as, the investigation, or the speculation, panned out poorly . [Slang, U. S.]

<-- Pan v.t. & i., to scan (a movie camera), usu. in a horizontal direction, to obtain a panoramic effect; also, to move the camera so as to keep the subject in view. 2. to criticise (a drama or literary work) harshly. -->

Panabase <Xpage=1035>

Pan"a*base (?) , n. [ Pan- + base . So called in allusion to the number of metals contained in it.] (Min.) Same as Tetrahedrite .

Panacea <Xpage=1035>

Pan`a*ce"a (?) , n. [L., fr. Gr. <?/, fr. <?/ all-healing; <?/, <?/, all + <?/ to heal.]

1. A remedy for all diseases; a universal medicine; a cure-all; catholicon; hence, a relief or solace for affliction.

2. (Bot.) The herb allheal.

Panacean <Xpage=1035>

Pan`a*ce"an (?) , a. Having the properties of a panacea. [R.] " Panacean dews."

Whitehead.

Panache <Xpage=1035>

Pa*nache" (?) , n. [F., fr. L. penna a feather. See Pen a feather.] A plume or bunch of feathers, esp. such a bunch worn on the helmet; any military plume, or ornamental group of feathers.

A panache of variegated plumes. Prescott.

Panada, Panade <Xpage=1035>

Pa*na"da (?) , Pa*nade" (?) , n. [Sp. panada , fr. L. panis bread: cf. F. panade . See Pantry .] Bread boiled in water to the consistence of pulp, and sweetened or flavored. [Written also panado .]

Panade <Xpage=1035>

Pa*nade" (?) , n. A dagger. [Obs.]

Chaucer.

Panama hat <Xpage=1035>

Pan`a*ma" hat` (?) . A fine plaited hat, made in Central America of the young leaves of a plant ( Carludovica palmata ).

Pan-American <Xpage=1035>

Pan`-A*mer"i*can (?) , a. [See Pan- .] Of or pertaining to both North and South America.

Pan-Anglican <Xpage=1035>

Pan`-An"gli*can (?) , a. [ Pan- + Anglican .] (Eccl.) Belonging to, or representing, the whole Church of England; used less strictly, to include the Protestant Episcopal Church of the United States; as, the Pan-Anglican Conference at Lambeth, in 1888 .

Panary <Xpage=1035>

Pan"a*ry (?) , a. [L. panis bread.] Of or pertaining to bread or to breadmaking.

Panary <Xpage=1035>

Pan"a*ry , n. A storehouse for bread.

Halliwell.

Pancake <Xpage=1035>

Pan"cake` (?) , n. A thin cake of batter fried in a pan or on a griddle; a griddlecake; a flapjack. "A pancake for Shrove Tuesday."

Shak.

Pancarte <Xpage=1035>

Pan"carte` (?) , n. [F., fr. LL. pancharta . See Pan- , and Carte .] A royal charter confirming to a subject all his possessions. [Obs.]

Holinshed.

Pance <Xpage=1035>

Pance (?) , n. (Bot.) The pansy. [Also paunce .]

Panch <Xpage=1035>

Panch (?) , n. (Naut.) See Paunch .

Panchway <Xpage=1035>

Panch"way (?) , n. [Hind. pan<?/oi .] (Naut.) A Bengalese four-oared boat for passengers. [Written also panshway and paunchwas .]

Malcom.

Pancratian <Xpage=1035>

Pan*cra"tian (?) , a. Pancratic; athletic.

Pancratiast <Xpage=1035>

Pan*cra"ti*ast (?) , n. One who engaged in the contests of the pancratium.

Pancratiastic <Xpage=1035>

Pan*cra`ti*as"tic (?) , a. Of or pertaining to the pancratium.

G. West.

Pancratic <Xpage=1035>

Pan*crat"ic (?) , a. [Gr. <?/ all-powerful.] (Opt.) Having all or many degrees of power; having a great range of power; -- said of an eyepiece made adjustable so as to give a varying magnifying power.

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Pan*crat"ic (?) , Pan*crat"ic*al (?) , a. [See Pancratium .] Of or pertaining to the pancratium; athletic.

Sir T. Browne

Pancratist <Xpage=1035>

Pan"cra*tist (?) , n. An athlete; a gymnast.

Pancratium <Xpage=1035>

Pan*cra"ti*um (?) , n. [L., fr. Gr. <?/ a complete contest, fr. <?/ all-powerful; <?/, <?/, all + <?/ strength.]

1. (Gr. Antiq.) An athletic contest involving both boxing and wrestling.

2. (Bot.) A genus of Old World amaryllideous bulbous plants, having a funnel-shaped perianth with six narrow spreading lobes. The American species are now placed in the related genus Hymenocallis .

Pancreas <Xpage=1035>

Pan"cre*as (?) , n. [NL., fr. Gr. <?/; <?/, <?/, all + <?/ flesh, meat: cf. F. pancr\'82as .] (Anat.) The sweetbread, a gland connected with the intestine of nearly all vertebrates. It is usually elongated and light-colored, and its secretion, called the pancreatic juice, is discharged, often together with the bile, into the upper part of the intestines, and is a powerful aid in digestion. See Illust . of Digestive apparatus .

Pancreatic <Xpage=1035>

Pan`cre*at"ic (?) , a. [Cf. F. pancr\'82atique .] (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the pancreas; as, the pancreatic secretion, digestion, ferments .

Pancreatic juice (Physiol.) , a colorless alkaline fluid secreted intermittently by the pancreatic gland. It is one of the most important of the digestive fluids, containing at least three distinct ferments, trypsin, steapsin and an amylolytic ferment, by which it acts upon all three classes of food stuffs. See Pancreas .

Pancreatin <Xpage=1035>

Pan"cre*a*tin (?) , n. [See Pancreas .] (Physiol. Chem.) One of the digestive ferments of the pancreatic juice; also, a preparation containing such a ferment, made from the pancreas of animals, and used in medicine as an aid to digestion.

&hand; By some the term pancreatin is restricted to the amylolytic ferment of the pancreatic juice, by others it is applied to trypsin, and by still others to steapsin .

Pancy <Xpage=1035>

Pan"cy (?) , n. See Pansy . [Obs.]

Dryden.

Panda <Xpage=1035>

Pan"da (?) , n. (Zo\'94l.) A small Asiatic mammal ( Ailurus fulgens ) having fine soft fur. It is related to the bears, and inhabits the mountains of Northern India.

Pandanus <Xpage=1035>

Pan*da"nus (?) , n. [NL., fr. Malay pandan .] (Bot.) A genus of endogenous plants. See Screw pine .

Pandar <Xpage=1035>

Pan"dar (?) , n. Same as Pander . "Seized by the pandar of Appius."

Macaulay.

Pandarism <Xpage=1035>

Pan"dar*ism (?) , n. Same as Panderism .

Swift.

Pandarize <Xpage=1035>

Pan"dar*ize (?) , v. i. To pander. [Obs.]

Pandarous <Xpage=1035>

Pan"dar*ous (?) , a. Panderous. [Obs.]

Pandean <Xpage=1035>

Pan*de"an , a. [From 4th Pan .] Of or relating to the god Pan.

Pandean pipes , a primitive wind instrument, consisting of a series of short hollow reeds or pipes, graduated in length by the musical scale, and fastened together side by side; a syrinx; a mouth organ; -- said to have been invented by Pan. Called also Pan's pipes and Panpipes . <-- also, pipes of Pan -->

Pandect <Xpage=1035>

Pan"dect (?) , n. [L. pandecta , pandectes , Gr. <?/ all-receiving, all-containing; <?/, <?/, all + <?/ to receive: cf. F. pandectes , pl.] 1. A treatise which comprehends the whole of any science.

[Thou] a pandect mak'st, and universal book. Donne.

2. pl. The digest, or abridgment, in fifty books, of the decisions, writings, and opinions of the old Roman jurists, made in the sixth century by direction of the emperor Justinian, and forming the leading compilation of the Roman civil law.

Kent.

Pandemic <Xpage=1035>

Pan*dem"ic (?) , a. [L. pandemus , Gr. <?/, <?/; <?/, <?/, all + <?/ the people: cf. F. pand\'82mique .] Affecting a whole people or a number of countries; everywhere epidemic. -- n. A pandemic disease.

Harvey.

Pandemonium <Xpage=1035>

Pan`de*mo"ni*um (?) , n. [NL., from Gr. <?/, <?/, all + <?/ a demon.] 1. The great hall or council chamber of demons or evil spirits.

Milton.

2. An utterly lawless, riotous place or assemblage.

Pander <Xpage=1035>

Pan"der (?) , n. [From Pandarus , a leader in the Trojan army, who is represented by Chaucer and Shakespeare as having procured for Troilus the possession of Cressida.]

1. A male bawd; a pimp; a procurer.

Thou art the pander to her dishonor. Shak.

2. Hence, one who ministers to the evil designs and passions of another.

Those wicked panders to avarice and ambition. Burke.

Pander <Xpage=1035>

Pan"der , v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Pandered (?) ; p. pr. & vb. n. Pandering .] To play the pander for.

<-- pander to (base emotions), to achieve one's purpose by appealing to a person's base emotions (less noble desires), as lust, prejudice, hate; to exploit base emotions -->

Pander <Xpage=1035>

Pan"der , v. i. To act the part of a pander.

Panderage <Xpage=1035>

Pan"der*age (?) , n. The act of pandering.

Panderism <Xpage=1035>

Pan"der*ism (?) , n. The employment, arts, or practices of a pander.

Bp. Hall.

Panderly <Xpage=1035>

Pan"der*ly , a. Having the quality of a pander. "O, you panderly rascals."

Shak.

Pandermite <Xpage=1035>

Pan*der"mite (?) , n. [From Panderma , a port on the Black Sea from which it is exported.] (Min.) A hydrous borate of lime, near priceite.

Panderous <Xpage=1035>

Pan"der*ous (?) , Of or relating to a pander; characterizing a pander.

Pandiculated <Xpage=1035>

Pan*dic"u*la`ted (?) , a. [See Pandiculation .] Extended; spread out; stretched.

Pandiculation <Xpage=1035>

Pan*dic`u*la"tion (?) , n. [L. pandiculari to stretch one's self, fr. pandere to spread out.] A stretching and stiffening of the trunk and extremities, as when fatigued and drowsy.

Pandit <Xpage=1035>

Pan"dit (?) , n. See Pundit .

Pandoor <Xpage=1035>

Pan"door (?) n. Same as Pandour .

Pandora <Xpage=1035>

Pan*do"ra (?) , n. [L., fr. Gr. Pandw`ra ; pa^s , pa^n , all + dw^ron a gift.] 1. (Class. Myth.) A beautiful woman ( all-gifted ), whom Jupiter caused Vulcan to make out of clay in order to punish the human race, because Prometheus had stolen the fire from heaven. Jupiter gave Pandora a box containing all human ills, which, when the box was opened, escaped and spread over the earth. Hope alone remained in the box. Another version makes the box contain all the blessings of the gods, which were lost to men when Pandora opened it.

2. (Zo\'94l.) A genus of marine bivalves, in which one valve is flat, the other convex.

Pandore <Xpage=1035>

Pan"dore (?) , n. [F. See Bandore .] An ancient musical instrument, of the lute kind; a bandore. [Written also pandoran .] <-- a bandura? -->

Pandour <Xpage=1035>

Pan"dour (?) , n. One of a class of Hungarian mountaineers serving in the Austrian army; -- so called from Pandur , a principal town in the region from which they originally came. [Written also pandoor .]

Her whiskered pandours and her fierce hussars. Campbell.

Pandowdy <Xpage=1035>

Pan*dow"dy (?) , n. A deep pie or pudding made of baked apples, or of sliced bread and apples baked together, with no bottom crust.

Pandurate, Panduriform <Xpage=1035>

Pan"du*rate , Pan*du"ri*form (?) , a. [L. pandura a pandore + -form : cf. F. panduriforme .] Obovate, with a concavity in each side, like the body of a violin; fiddle-shaped; as, a panduriform leaf; panduriform color markings of an animal.

Pane <Xpage=1035>

Pane (?) , n. [F. panne .] The narrow edge of a hammer head. See Peen .

Pane <Xpage=1035>

Pane , n. [OE. pan part, portion of a thing, F. pan a skirt, lappet, part or piece of a wall, side, fr. L. pannus a cloth, fillet, rag; akin to E. vane . See Vane , and cf. Panel , Pawn pledge.] 1. A division; a distinct piece, limited part, or compartment of any surface; a patch; hence, a square of a checkered or plaided pattern.

2. One of the openings in a slashed garment, showing the bright colored silk, or the like, within; hence, the piece of colored or other stuff so shown.

3. (Arch.) (a) A compartment of a surface, or a flat space; hence, one side or face of a building; as, an octagonal tower is said to have eight panes . (b) Especially, in modern use, the glass in one compartment of a window sash.

4. In irrigating, a subdivision of an irrigated surface between a feeder and an outlet drain.

5. (a) One of the flat surfaces, or facets, of any object having several sides. (b) One of the eight facets surrounding the table of a brilliant cut diamond.

Paned <Xpage=1035>

Paned (?) , a. 1. Having panes; provided with panes; also, having openings; as, a paned window; paned window sash. " Paned hose."

Massinger.

2. (Mach.) Having flat sides or surfaces; as, a six<?/ paned nut .

Panegyric <Xpage=1035>

Pan`e*gyr"ic (?) , n. [L. panegyricus , Gr. panhgyrico`s : cf. F. pan\'82gyrique . See Panegyric , a. ] An oration or eulogy in praise of some person or achievement; a formal or elaborate encomium; a laudatory discourse; laudation. See Synonym of Eulogy .

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Pan`e*gyr"ic (?) , Pan`e*gyr"ic*al (?) , a. [L. panegyricus , Gr. panhgyrico`s , from <?/ an assembly of the people, a high festival; pa^ , pa^n all + <?/, an assembly.] Containing praise or eulogy; encomiastic; laudatory. " Panegyric strains." Pope . -- Pan`e*gyr"ic*al*ly , adv.

Some of his odes are panegyrical . Dryden.

Panegyris <Xpage=1035>

Pa*neg"y*ris (?) , n. [NL., fr. Gr. <?/. See Panegyric .] A festival; a public assembly. [Obs.]

S. Harris.

Panegyrist <Xpage=1035>

Pan"e*gyr`ist (?) , n. [L. panegyrista , Gr. <?/ one who attends a <?/: cf. <?/ to celebrate or attend a public festival, to make a set speech, esp. a panegyric, in a public assembly. See Panegyric .] One who delivers a panegyric; a eulogist; one who extols or praises, either by writing or speaking.

If these panegyrists are in earnest. Burke.

Panegyrize <Xpage=1035>

Pan"e*gy*rize (?) , v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Panegyrized (?) ; p. pr. & vb. n. Panegyrizing (?) .] [Gr. <?/. See Panegyrist .] To praise highly; to extol in a public speech; to write or deliver a panegyric upon; to eulogize.

Panegyrize <Xpage=1035>

Pan"e*gy*rize , v. i. To indulge in panegyrics.

Mitford.

Panegyry <Xpage=1035>

Pan"e*gyr`y (?) , n. A panegyric. [Obs.]

Milton.

Panel <Xpage=1035>

Pan"el (?) , n. [Orig., a little piece; OF. panel , pannel , F. panneau , dim. of pan skirt, lappet, part or piece of a wall, side. See 2d Pane .] 1. (Arch.) A sunken compartment with raised margins, molded or otherwise, as in ceilings, wainscotings, etc.

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2. (Law) (a) A piece of parchment or a schedule, containing the names of persons summoned as jurors by the sheriff; hence, more generally, the whole jury. Blackstone . (b) (Scots Law) A prisoner arraigned for trial at the bar of a criminal court. Burrill .

3. Formerly, a piece of cloth serving as a saddle; hence, a soft pad beneath a saddletree to prevent chafing.

4. (Joinery) A board having its edges inserted in the groove of a surrounding frame; as, the panel of a door .

5. (Masonry) One of the faces of a hewn stone.

Gwilt.

6. (Painting) A slab or plank of wood upon which, instead of canvas, a picture is painted.

7. (Mining) (a) A heap of dressed ore. (b) One of the districts divided by pillars of extra size, into which a mine is laid off in one system of extracting coal.