Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter P - Page 10

Panelation (n.) The act of impaneling a jury.

Paneless (a.) Without panes.

Paneling (n.) A forming in panels; panelwork.

Panelwork (n.) Wainscoting.

Paneulogism (n.) Eulogy of everything; indiscriminate praise.

Panfuls (pl. ) of Panful

Panful (n.) Enough to fill a pan.

Pang (n.) A paroxysm of extreme pain or anguish; a sudden and transitory agony; a throe; as, the pangs of death.

Pang (v. t.) To torture; to cause to have great pain or suffering; to torment.

Pangenesis (n.) An hypothesis advanced by Darwin in explanation of heredity.

Pangenetic (a.) Of or pertaining to pangenesis.

Pangful (a.) Full of pangs.

Pangless (a.) Without a pang; painless.

Pangolin (n.) Any one of several species of Manis, Pholidotus, and related genera, found in Africa and Asia. They are covered with imbricated scales, and feed upon ants. Called also scaly ant-eater.

Pangothic (a.) Of, pertaining to, or including, all the Gothic races.

Panhellenic (a.) Of or pertaining to all Greece, or to Panhellenism; including all Greece, or all the Greeks.

Panhellenism (n.) A scheme to unite all the Greeks in one political body.

Panhellenist (n.) An advocate of Panhellenism.

Panhellenium (n.) An assembly or association of Greeks from all the states of Greece.

Panic (n.) A plant of the genus Panicum; panic grass; also, the edible grain of some species of panic grass.

Panic (a.) Extreme or sudden and causeless; unreasonable; -- said of fear or fright; as, panic fear, terror, alarm.

Panic (a.) A sudden, overpowering fright; esp., a sudden and groundless fright; terror inspired by a trifling cause or a misapprehension of danger; as, the troops were seized with a panic; they fled in a panic.

Panic (a.) By extension: A sudden widespread fright or apprehension concerning financial affairs.

Panical (a.) See Panic, a.

Panicle (n.) A pyramidal form of inflorescence, in which the cluster is loosely branched below and gradually simpler toward the end.

Panicled (a.) Furnished with panicles; arranged in, or like, panicles; paniculate.

Panic-stricken (a.) Alt. of Panic-struck

Panic-struck (a.) Struck with a panic, or sudden fear.

Paniculate (a.) Alt. of Paniculated

Paniculated (a.) Same as Panicled.

Panicum (n.) A genus of grasses, including several hundred species, some of which are valuable; panic grass.

Panidiomorphic (a.) Having a completely idiomorphic structure; -- said of certain rocks.

Panier (n.) See Pannier, 3.

Panification (n.) The act or process of making bread.

Panim (n.) See Painim.

Panislamism (n.) A desire or plan for the union of all Mohammedan nations for the conquest of the world.

Panivorous (a.) Eating bread; subsisting on bread.

Pannade (n.) The curvet of a horse.

Pannage (n.) The food of swine in the woods, as beechnuts, acorns, etc.; -- called also pawns.

Pannage (n.) A tax paid for the privilege of feeding swine in the woods.

Pannary (a.) See Panary.

Pannel (n.) A kind of rustic saddle.

Pannel (n.) The stomach of a hawk.

Pannel (n.) A carriage for conveying a mortar and its bed, on a march.

Pannier (n.) A bread basket; also, a wicker basket (used commonly in pairs) for carrying fruit or other things on a horse or an ass

Pannier (n.) A shield of basket work formerly used by archers as a shelter from the enemy's missiles.

Pannier (n.) A table waiter at the Inns of Court, London.

Pannier (n.) A framework of steel or whalebone, worn by women to expand their dresses; a kind of bustle.

Panniered (a.) Bearing panniers.

Pannikel (n.) The brainpan, or skull; hence, the crest.

Pannikin (n.) A small pan or cup.

Pannose (a.) Similar in texture or appearance to felt or woolen cloth.

Pannus (n.) A very vascular superficial opacity of the cornea, usually caused by granulation of the eyelids.

Panoistic (a.) Producing ova only; -- said of the ovaries of certain insects which do not produce vitelligenous cells.

Panomphean (a.) Uttering ominous or prophetic voices; divining.

Panoplied (a.) Dressed in panoply.

Panoply (n.) Defensive armor in general; a full suit of defensive armor.

Panopticon (n.) A prison so contructed that the inspector can see each of the prisoners at all times, without being seen.

Panopticon (n.) A room for the exhibition of novelties.

Panorama (n.) A complete view in every direction.

Panorama (n.) A picture presenting a view of objects in every direction, as from a central point.

Panorama (n.) A picture representing scenes too extended to be beheld at once, and so exhibited a part at a time, by being unrolled, and made to pass continuously before the spectator.

Panoramic (a.) Alt. of Panoramical

Panoramical (a.) Of, pertaining to, or like, a panorama.

Panorpian (a.) Like, or pertaining to, the genus Panorpa.

Panorpian (n.) Same as Panorpid.

Panorpid (n.) Any neuropterous insect of the genus Panorpa, and allied genera. The larvae feed on plant lice.

Panpharmacon (n.) A medicine for all diseases; a panacea.

Panpresbyterian (a.) Belonging to, or representative of, those who hold Presbyterian views in all parts of the world; as, a Panpresbyterian council.

Pansclavic () Alt. of Pansclavonian

Pansclavism () Alt. of Pansclavonian

Pansclavist () Alt. of Pansclavonian

Pansclavonian () See Panslavic, Panslavism, etc.

Panshon (n.) An earthen vessel wider at the top than at the bottom, -- used for holding milk and for various other purposes.

Pansied (a.) Covered or adorned with pansies.

Panslavic (a.) Pertaining to all the Slavic races.

Panslavism (n.) A scheme or desire to unite all the Slavic races into one confederacy.

Panslavist (n.) One who favors Panslavism.

Panslavonian (a.) See Panslavic.

Pansophical (a.) All-wise; claiming universal knowledge; as, pansophical pretenders.

Pansophy (n.) Universal wisdom; esp., a system of universal knowledge proposed by Comenius (1592 -- 1671), a Moravian educator.

Panspermatist (n.) Alt. of Panspermist

Panspermist (n.) A believer in panspermy; one who rejects the theory of spontaneous generation; a biogenist.

Panspermic (a.) Of or pertaining to panspermy; as, the panspermic hypothesis.

Panspermy (n.) The doctrine of the widespread distribution of germs, from which under favorable circumstances bacteria, vibrios, etc., may develop.

Panspermy (n.) The doctrine that all organisms must come from living parents; biogenesis; -- the opposite of spontaneous generation.

Panstereorama (n.) A model of a town or country, in relief, executed in wood, cork, pasteboard, or the like.

Pansies (pl. ) of Pansy

Pansy (n.) A plant of the genus Viola (V. tricolor) and its blossom, originally purple and yellow. Cultivated varieties have very large flowers of a great diversity of colors. Called also heart's-ease, love-in-idleness, and many other quaint names.

Panted (imp. & p. p.) of Pant

Panting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Pant

Pant (v. i.) To breathe quickly or in a labored manner, as after exertion or from eagerness or excitement; to respire with heaving of the breast; to gasp.

Pant (v. i.) Hence: To long eagerly; to desire earnestly.

Pant (v. i.) To beat with unnatural violence or rapidity; to palpitate, or throb; -- said of the heart.

Pant (v. i.) To sigh; to flutter; to languish.

Pant (v. t.) To breathe forth quickly or in a labored manner; to gasp out.

Pant (v. t.) To long for; to be eager after.

Pant (n.) A quick breathing; a catching of the breath; a gasp.

Pant (n.) A violent palpitation of the heart.

Panta- () See Pan-.

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