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Webster's Dictionary (1865)

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Pan

Păn, n.

noun

n. [A-S. & O. Sax. panne, D. pan, Icel., Sw., & L. Lat. panna, O. H. Ger. panna, phanna, N. H. Ger. pfanne.]

  1. A shallow, open dish or vessel, used for setting milk, and other domestic purposes; also, any similar vessel.
  2. The part of a flint-lock which holds the priming that communicates with the charge.
  3. The skull, considered as a vessel containing the brain; the upper part of the head; the brain-pan; the cranium.
  4. The hard stratum of earth that lies below the soil, and holds the water; hard pan.
  5. A masticatory which is extensively used in some Asiatic countries instead of opium and tobacco. It consists of slices of the areca nut wrapped in the fresh leaves of the betel-pepper vine, with a small quantity of quicklime. See ARECA and BETEL. Simmonds.
  6. A leaf of gold or silver. Simmonds.

Păn, v. t.

verbtransitive

v. t. [Cf. A-S. pan, a piece, plait, hem, allied to Lat. pannus, a cloth, rag; Fr. pan, a skirt, lappet. Cf. W. panu, to fur, to full.] To join; to close together. [Obs.] Bailey.

Păn, n.

noun

Păn, n. [Lat. Pan, Gr. Πάν.] (Myth.) The god of shepherds, guardian of bees, and patron of fishing and fowling. He is usually represented as combining the form of a man with that of a beast, having the body of a man, a red face with a flat nose, horns upon his head, and the legs, thighs, tail, and feet of a goat.

A drawing of Pan, depicted as a horned, goat-legged figure playing a panpipe while seated among grasses.
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