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Pan
() To yield gold in, or as in, the process of panning; -- usually with out; as, the gravel panned out richly.
Pan
() To turn out (profitably or unprofitably); to result; to develop; as, the investigation, or the speculation, panned out poorly.
Panabase
() Same as Tetrahedrite.
Panacea
() A remedy for all diseases; a universal medicine; a cure-all; catholicon; hence, a relief or solace for affliction.
Panacea
() The herb allheal.
Panacean
() Having the properties of a panacea.
Panache
() A plume or bunch of feathers, esp. such a bunch worn on the helmet; any military plume, or ornamental group of feathers.
Panada
() Alt. of Panade
Panade
() Bread boiled in water to the consistence of pulp, and sweetened or flavored.
Panade
() A dagger.
Panama hat
() A fine plaited hat, made in Central America of the young leaves of a plant (Carludovica palmata).
Pan-American
() Of or pertaining to both North and South America.
Pan-Anglican
() 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
() Of or pertaining to bread or to breadmaking.
Panary
() A storehouse for bread.
Pancake
() A thin cake of batter fried in a pan or on a griddle; a griddlecake; a flapjack.
Pancarte
() A royal charter confirming to a subject all his possessions.
Pance
() The pansy.
Panch
() See Paunch.
Panchway
() A Bengalese four-oared boat for passengers.
Pancratian
() Pancratic; athletic.
Pancratiast
() One who engaged in the contests of the pancratium.
Pancratiastic
() Of or pertaining to the pancratium.
Pancratic
() 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.
Pancratic
() Alt. of Pancratical
Pancratical
() Of or pertaining to the pancratium; athletic.
Pancratist
() An athlete; a gymnast.
Pancratium
() An athletic contest involving both boxing and wrestling.
Pancratium
() 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
() 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
() Of or pertaining to the pancreas; as, the pancreatic secretion, digestion, ferments.
Pancreatin
() 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.
Pancy
() See Pansy.
Panda
() A small Asiatic mammal (Ailurus fulgens) having fine soft fur. It is related to the bears, and inhabits the mountains of Northern India.
Pandanus
() A genus of endogenous plants. See Screw pine.
Pandar
() Same as Pander.
Pandarism
() Same as Panderism.
Pandarize
() To pander.
Pandarous
() Panderous.
Pandean
() Of or relating to the god Pan.
Pandect
() A treatise which comprehends the whole of any science.
Pandect
() 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.
Pandemic
() Affecting a whole people or a number of countries; everywhere epidemic.
Pandemic
() A pandemic disease.
Pandemonium
() The great hall or council chamber of demons or evil spirits.
Pandemonium
() An utterly lawless, riotous place or assemblage.
Pander
() A male bawd; a pimp; a procurer.
Pander
() Hence, one who ministers to the evil designs and passions of another.
Pandered
() of Pander
Pandering
() of Pander