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Pamphlet (pămflĕt), v. i. To write a pamphlet or pamphlets. [R.] Howell.
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Pamphleteer (pămflĕtēr), n. A writer of pamphlets; a scribbler. Dryden. Macaulay.
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Pamphleteer, v. i. To write or publish pamphlets.
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By pamphleteering we shall not win. C. Kingsley.
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Pampiniform (?), a. [L. pampinus a tendril + -form.] (Anat.) In the form of tendrils; -- applied especially to the spermatic and ovarian veins.
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Pampre (?), n. [F. pampre a vine branch, L. pampinus.] (Sculp.) An ornament, composed of vine leaves and bunches of grapes, used for decorating spiral columns.
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Pamprodactylous (?), a. [Pan- + Gr. � forward + daktylos finger.] (Zoöl.) Having all the toes turned forward, as the colies.
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{ Pan- (?), Panta- (?), Panto- (?) }. [Gr. �, m., �, neut., gen. �, all.] Combining forms signifying all, every; as, panorama, pantheism, pantagraph, pantograph. Pan- becomes pam- before b or p, as pamprodactylous.
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Pan, n. [OE. See 2d .] 1. A part; a portion.
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2. (Fort.) The distance comprised between the angle of the epaule and the flanked angle.
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3. [Perh. a different word.] A leaf of gold or silver.
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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. pān, Skr. parna leaf.] The betel leaf; also, the masticatory made of the betel leaf, etc. See .
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Pan (?), prop. 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 (also called the pipes of Pan), 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.
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2. (Manuf.) A closed vessel for boiling or evaporating. See Vacuum pan, under .
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3. The part of a flintlock which holds the priming.
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4. The skull, considered as a vessel containing the brain; the upper part of the head; the brainpan; the cranium. Chaucer.
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5. (Carp.) A recess, or bed, for the leaf of a hinge.
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6. The hard stratum of earth that lies below the soil. See Hard pan, under .
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7. A natural basin, containing salt or fresh water, or mud.
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Coloq. Flash in the pan . See under . -- Coloq. 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.] 1. (Mining) To separate, as gold, from dirt or sand, by washing in a kind of pan. [U. S.]
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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.
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2. To criticise (a drama or literary work) harshly.
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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.
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2. To turn out (profitably or unprofitably); to result; to develop; as, the investigation, or the speculation, panned out poorly. [Slang, U. S.]
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Pan, v. t. & i. (Cinematography) 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.
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Panabase (?), n. [Pan- + base. So called in allusion to the number of metals contained in it.] (Min.) Same as .
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Panacea (?), n. [L., fr. Gr. panakeia fr. panakhs all-healing; pa^s pa^n, all + 'akei^sqai to heal.]
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1. A remedy for all diseases; a universal medicine; a cure-all; catholicon; hence, a relief or solace for affliction.
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2. (Bot.) The herb allheal.
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Panacean (?), a. Having the properties of a panacea. [R.] “Panacean dews.” Whitehead.
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Panache (?), n. [F., fr. L. penna a feather. See a feather.] 1. A plume or bunch of feathers, esp. such a bunch worn on the helmet; any military plume, or ornamental group of feathers.
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A panache of variegated plumes. Prescott.
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2. A pleasingly flamboyant style or manner; flair{4}; verve.
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{ Panada (?), Panade (?), } n. [Sp. panada, fr. L. panis bread: cf. F. panade. See .] Bread boiled in water to the consistence of pulp, and sweetened or flavored. [Written also panado.]
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Panade (?), n. A dagger. [Obs.] Chaucer.
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Panama hat (?). A fine plaited hat, made in Central America of the young leaves of a plant (Carludovica palmata).
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Panamanian (?), a. Of or pert. to Panama. -- n. A native or citizen of Panama.
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Pan-American (?), a. [See .] Of or pertaining to both North and South America.
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Pan-American Congress. Any of several meetings of delegates from various American states; esp.: (a) One held in 1889-90 in the United States, at which all the independent states except Santo Domingo were represented and of which the practical result was the establishment of the Bureau of American Republics for the promotion of trade relations. (b) One held in Mexico in 1901-1902. (c) One held at Rio de Janeiro in 1906.
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Pan-Americanism, n. The principle or advocacy of a political alliance or union of all the states of America.
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panamica n. A low stingless nettle (Pilea involucrata) of Central and South America having velvety brownish-green toothed leaves and clusters of small green flowers.
Syn. -- friendship plant, panamiga, Pilea involucrata.
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panamiga n. Same as .
Syn. -- friendship plant, panamica, Pilea involucrata.
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Pan-Anglican (?), 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.
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Panary (?), a. [L. panis bread.] Of or pertaining to bread or to breadmaking.
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Panary, n. A storehouse for bread. Halliwell.
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panatela, panatella, panetella (pănĭtĕllȧ), n. A long slender cigar.
Syn. -- panetela.
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Panathenæa (?), n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. �; pa^s pa^n, all + � Athena.] The most ancient and important festival of Athens, celebrated in honor of Athena, the tutelary goddess of the city.
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Panax n. A genus of perennial herbs of eastern North America and Asia having aromatic tuberous roots: ginseng.
Syn. -- genus Panax.
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Pancake (pănkāk), n. A thin cake of batter fried in a pan or on a griddle; a griddlecake; a flapjack. “A pancake for Shrove Tuesday.” Shak.
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Pancarte (?), n. [F., fr. LL. pancharta. See , and .] A royal charter confirming to a subject all his possessions. [Obs.] Holinshed.
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Pance (?), n. (Bot.) The pansy. [Also paunce.]
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Panch (?), n. (Naut.) See .
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Panchway (?), n. [Hind. pançoi.] (Naut.) A Bengalese four-oared boat for passengers. [Written also panshway and paunchwas.] Malcom.
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Pancratian (?), a. Pancratic; athletic.
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Pancratiast (?), n. One who engaged in the contests of the pancratium.
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Pancratiastic (?), a. Of or pertaining to the pancratium. G. West.
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Pancratic (?), a. [Gr. pagkraths 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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{ Pancratic (?), Pancratical (?), } a. [See .] Of or pertaining to the pancratium; athletic. Sir T. Browne
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Pancratist (?), n. An athlete; a gymnast.
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Pancratium (?), n. [L., fr. Gr. pagkration a complete contest, fr. pagkraths all-powerful; pa^s, pa^n, all + kratos strength.]
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1. (Gr. Antiq.) An athletic contest involving both boxing and wrestling.
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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.
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Pancreas (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. �; pa^s, pa^n, all + kreas flesh, meat: cf. F. pancréas.] (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.
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Pancreatic (?), a. [Cf. F. pancréatique.] (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the pancreas; as, the pancreatic secretion, digestion, ferments.
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Coloq. 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 enzymes, trypsin, steapsin (lipase) and an amylase, by which it acts upon all three classes of food stuffs. See .
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pancreatin (?), n. [See .] (Physiol. Chem.) One of the digestive enzymes of the pancreatic juice.
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☞ By some the term pancreatin is restricted to the amylolytic ferment of the pancreatic juice (amylase), by others it is applied to trypsin, and by still others to steapsin (the lipase of pancreatic juice).
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2. A preparation of pancreatic juice, usually obtained from the ox or hog, containing the three main digestive enzymes trypsin, amylase, and lipase, and used in medicine as an aid to digestion.
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pancy (?), n. See . [Obs.] Dryden.
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panda (păndȧ), n. (Zoöl.) 1. A small Asiatic mammal (Ailurus fulgens) having fine soft fur, which inhabits the mountains of Northern India. It was once thought to be related to the bears, but is now believed to be more closely related to raccoons. It has reddish-brown fur on the back and sides, and black fur on the legs and underside. Called also the lesser panda.
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2. The giant panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca), a bearlike black-and white mammal now found wild only in the central forests of China, which lives mainly on on bamboo. It is an endangered species, and is a popular attraction in the few zoos which have bveen able to obtain specimens.
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Pandanaceae prop. n. A natural family of woody plants including the pandanus tree (the screw pine) and freycinetia.
Syn. -- family Pandanaceae, screw-pine family.
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Pandanales prop. n. An order of plants including the families Typhaceae; Sparganiaceae; and Pandanaceae.
Syn. -- order Pandanales.
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Pandanus (?), prop. n. [NL., fr. Malay pandan.] (Bot.) A genus of endogenous plants, native to tropical lands from Africa to Polynesia. See Screw pine.
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2. Fiber from leaves of the pandanus tree; used for woven articles (such as mats). [wns16=1]
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3. Any of various Old World tropical palmlike trees having huge prop roots and pineapplelike leaves and edible conelike fruits; also called the screw pine. [wns16=2]
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Pandar (?), n. Same as . “Seized by the pandar of Appius.” Macaulay.
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Pandarism (?), n. Same as . Swift.
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Pandarize (?), v. i. To pander. [Obs.]
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Pandarous (?), a. Panderous. [Obs.]
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Pandean, a. [From 4th .] Of or relating to the god Pan.
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Pandean pipes, n. pl., 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 the god Pan. Called also pipes of Pan, Pan's pipes and Panpipes.
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Pandect (?), n. [L. pandecta, pandectes, Gr. � all-receiving, all-containing; pa^s, pa^n, all + � to receive: cf. F. pandectes, pl.] 1. A treatise which comprehends the whole of any science.
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[Thou] a pandect mak'st, and universal book. Donne.
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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.
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Pandemic (?), a. [L. pandemus, Gr. �, �; pa^s, pa^n, all + � the people: cf. F. pandémique.] Affecting a whole people or a number of countries; everywhere epidemic. -- n. A pandemic disease. Harvey.
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Pandemonium (?), n. [NL., from Gr. pa^s, pa^n, all + daimwn a demon.] 1. The great hall or council chamber of demons or evil spirits. Milton.
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2. An utterly lawless, riotous place or assemblage.
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3. A condition of unrestrained disorder and chaotic, riotous uproar.
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Pander (?), 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.]
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1. A male bawd; a pimp; a procurer.
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Thou art the pander to her dishonor. Shak.
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2. Hence, one who ministers to the evil designs and passions of another.
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Those wicked panders to avarice and ambition. Burke.
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Pander, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Pandered (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Pandering.] To play the pander for.
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Coloq. to pander to v. t. To appeal to (base emotions or less noble desires), so as to achieve one's purpose; to exploit (base emotions, such as lust, prejudice, or hate).
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Pander, v. i. To act the part of a pander.
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Panderage (?), n. The act of pandering.
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Panderism (?), n. The employment, arts, or practices of a pander. Bp. Hall.
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Panderly, a. Having the quality of a pander. “O, you panderly rascals.” Shak.
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Pandermite (?), n. [From Panderma, a port on the Black Sea from which it is exported.] (Min.) A hydrous borate of lime, near priceite.
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Panderous (?), a. Of or relating to a pander; characterizing a pander.
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Pandiculated (?), a. [See .] Extended; spread out; stretched.
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Pandiculation (?), 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.
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Pandit (?), n. Same as .
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Pandoor (?), n. Same as .
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Pandora (?), prop. n. [L., fr. Gr. Pandwra; 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.
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2. (Zoöl.) A genus of marine bivalves, in which one valve is flat, the other convex.
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pandore (păndōr or păndōr), n. [F. See .] An ancient musical instrument, of the lute kind; a bandore. [Written also pandora, pandoura. pandure, and pandoran.]
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Pandour (?), n. 1. One of a class of Hungarian mountaineers serving in the Austrian army that served as local militia in Croatia; -- so called from Pandur, a principal town in the region from which they originally came. They were noted for their ruthlessness. [Written also pandoor.]
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Her whiskered pandours and her fierce hussars. Campbell.
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2. Hence: A brutal soldier.
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pandoura (?), n. See .
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Pandowdy (?), n. A deep pie or pudding made of baked apples, or of sliced bread and apples baked together, with no bottom crust.
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{ Pandurate, Panduriform (?), } a. [L. pandura a pandore + -form: cf. F. panduriforme.] 1. 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.
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2. (Bot.) Shaped like a fiddle; -- of a leaf.
Syn. -- fiddle-shaped.
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panduriform adj. (Bot.) Same as .
Syn. -- pandurate, fiddle-shaped.
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Pane (?), n. [F. panne.] The narrow edge of a hammer head. See .
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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 , and cf. , 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.
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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.
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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; a windowpane.
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4. In irrigating, a subdivision of an irrigated surface between a feeder and an outlet drain.
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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.
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Paned (?), a. 1. Having panes; provided with panes; also, having openings; as, a paned window; paned window sash. “Paned hose.” Massinger.
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2. (Mach.) Having flat sides or surfaces; as, a six-paned nut.
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Panegyric (?), n. [L. panegyricus, Gr. panhgyricos: cf. F. panégyrique. See , a.] An oration or eulogy in praise of some person or achievement; a formal or elaborate encomium; a laudatory discourse; laudation. See Synonym of .
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{ Panegyric (?), Panegyrical (?), } a. [L. panegyricus, Gr. panhgyricos, from panhgyris an assembly of the people, a high festival; pa^, pa^n all + 'agyris, 'agora, an assembly.] Containing praise or eulogy; encomiastic; laudatory. “Panegyric strains.” Pope. -- Panegyrically, adv.
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Some of his odes are panegyrical. Dryden.
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Panegyris (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. �. See .] A festival; a public assembly. [Obs.] S. Harris.
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Panegyrist (?), n. [L. panegyrista, Gr. panhgyrisths, one who attends a panhgyris: cf. panhgyrizein to celebrate or attend a public festival, to make a set speech, esp. a panegyric, in a public assembly. See .] One who delivers a panegyric; a eulogist; one who extols or praises, either by writing or speaking.
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If these panegyrists are in earnest. Burke.
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Panegyrize (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Panegyrized (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Panegyrizing (?).] [Gr. �. See .] To praise highly; to extol in a public speech; to write or deliver a panegyric upon; to eulogize.
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Panegyrize, v. i. To indulge in panegyrics. Mitford.
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Panegyry (?), n. A panegyric. [Obs.] Milton.
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Panel (?), n. [Orig., a little piece; OF. panel, pannel, F. panneau, dim. of pan skirt, lappet, part or piece of a wall, side. See 2d .] 1. (Arch.) A sunken compartment with raised margins, molded or otherwise, as in ceilings, wainscotings, etc.
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