Panacea (n.) The herb allheal.
Panacean (a.) Having the properties of a panacea.
Panache (n.) A plume or bunch of feathers, esp. such a bunch worn on the helmet; any military plume, or ornamental group of feathers.
Panada (n.) Alt. of Panade
Panade (n.) Bread boiled in water to the consistence of pulp, and sweetened or flavored.
Panade (n.) A dagger.
Panama hat () A fine plaited hat, made in Central America of the young leaves of a plant (Carludovica palmata).
Pan-American (a.) Of or pertaining to both North and South America.
Pan-Anglican (a.) 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 (a.) Of or pertaining to bread or to breadmaking.
Panary (n.) A storehouse for bread.
Pancake (n.) A thin cake of batter fried in a pan or on a griddle; a griddlecake; a flapjack.
Pancarte (n.) A royal charter confirming to a subject all his possessions.
Pance (n.) The pansy.
Panch (n.) See Paunch.
Panchway (n.) A Bengalese four-oared boat for passengers.
Pancratian (a.) Pancratic; athletic.
Pancratiast (n.) One who engaged in the contests of the pancratium.
Pancratiastic (a.) Of or pertaining to the pancratium.
Pancratic (a.) 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 (a.) Alt. of Pancratical
Pancratical (a.) Of or pertaining to the pancratium; athletic.
Pancratist (n.) An athlete; a gymnast.
Pancratium (n.) An athletic contest involving both boxing and wrestling.
Pancratium (n.) 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 (n.) 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 (a.) Of or pertaining to the pancreas; as, the pancreatic secretion, digestion, ferments.
Pancreatin (n.) 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 (n.) See Pansy.
Panda (n.) A small Asiatic mammal (Ailurus fulgens) having fine soft fur. It is related to the bears, and inhabits the mountains of Northern India.
Pandanus (n.) A genus of endogenous plants. See Screw pine.
Pandar (n.) Same as Pander.
Pandarism (n.) Same as Panderism.
Pandarize (v. i.) To pander.
Pandarous (a.) Panderous.
Pandean (a.) Of or relating to the god Pan.
Pandect (n.) A treatise which comprehends the whole of any science.
Pandect (n.) 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 (a.) Affecting a whole people or a number of countries; everywhere epidemic.
Pandemic (n.) A pandemic disease.
Pandemonium (n.) The great hall or council chamber of demons or evil spirits.
Pandemonium (n.) An utterly lawless, riotous place or assemblage.
Pander (n.) A male bawd; a pimp; a procurer.
Pander (n.) Hence, one who ministers to the evil designs and passions of another.
Pandered (imp. & p. p.) of Pander
Pandering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Pander
Pander (v. t.) To play the pander for.
Pander (v. i.) To act the part of a pander.
Panderage (n.) The act of pandering.
Panderism (n.) The employment, arts, or practices of a pander.
Panderly (a.) Having the quality of a pander.
Pandermite (n.) A hydrous borate of lime, near priceite.
Panderous (a.) Of or relating to a pander; characterizing a pander.
Pandiculated (a.) Extended; spread out; stretched.
Pandiculation (n.) A stretching and stiffening of the trunk and extremities, as when fatigued and drowsy.
Pandit (n.) See Pundit.
Pandoor (n.) Same as Pandour.
Pandora (n.) 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.
Pandora (n.) A genus of marine bivalves, in which one valve is flat, the other convex.
Pandore (n.) An ancient musical instrument, of the lute kind; a bandore.
Pandour (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.
Pandowdy (n.) A deep pie or pudding made of baked apples, or of sliced bread and apples baked together, with no bottom crust.
Pandurate (a.) Alt. of Panduriform
Panduriform (a.) 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 (n.) The narrow edge of a hammer head. See Peen.
Pane (n.) A division; a distinct piece, limited part, or compartment of any surface; a patch; hence, a square of a checkered or plaided pattern.
Pane (n.) 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.
Pane (n.) 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.
Pane (n.) Especially, in modern use, the glass in one compartment of a window sash.
Pane (n.) In irrigating, a subdivision of an irrigated surface between a feeder and an outlet drain.
Pane (n.) One of the flat surfaces, or facets, of any object having several sides.
Pane (n.) One of the eight facets surrounding the table of a brilliant cut diamond.
Paned (a.) Having panes; provided with panes; also, having openings; as, a paned window; paned window sash.
Paned (a.) Having flat sides or surfaces; as, a six/paned nut.
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.
Panegyric (a.) Alt. of Panegyrical
Panegyrical (a.) Containing praise or eulogy; encomiastic; laudatory.
Panegyris (n.) A festival; a public assembly.
Panegyrist (n.) One who delivers a panegyric; a eulogist; one who extols or praises, either by writing or speaking.
Panegyrized (imp. & p. p.) of Panegyrize
Panegyrizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Panegyrize
Panegyrize (v. t.) To praise highly; to extol in a public speech; to write or deliver a panegyric upon; to eulogize.
Panegyrize (v. i.) To indulge in panegyrics.
Panegyry (n.) A panegyric.
Panel (n.) A sunken compartment with raised margins, molded or otherwise, as in ceilings, wainscotings, etc.
Panel (n.) A piece of parchment or a schedule, containing the names of persons summoned as jurors by the sheriff; hence, more generally, the whole jury.
Panel (n.) A prisoner arraigned for trial at the bar of a criminal court.
Panel (n.) Formerly, a piece of cloth serving as a saddle; hence, a soft pad beneath a saddletree to prevent chafing.
Panel (n.) A board having its edges inserted in the groove of a surrounding frame; as, the panel of a door.
Panel (n.) One of the faces of a hewn stone.
Panel (n.) A slab or plank of wood upon which, instead of canvas, a picture is painted.
Panel (n.) A heap of dressed ore.
Panel (n.) One of the districts divided by pillars of extra size, into which a mine is laid off in one system of extracting coal.
Panel (n.) A plain strip or band, as of velvet or plush, placed at intervals lengthwise on the skirt of a dress, for ornament.
Panel (n.) A portion of a framed structure between adjacent posts or struts, as in a bridge truss.
Paneled (imp. & p. p.) of Panel
Panelled () of Panel
Paneling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Panel
Panelling () of Panel
Panel (v. t.) To form in or with panels; as, to panel a wainscot.