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An American Dictionary of the English Language

by Noah Webster

Revised and enlarged (Goodrich & Porter)

Springfield, Mass. · G. & C. Merriam · 1865

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  1. Pān'dōor, n.p. 943See PANDOUR.
  2. Pan-dō'rap. 943(Myth.) A woman fabled to have been made by Vulcan, and upon whom all the gods and goddesses bestowed gifts to make her more complete. Pandora's box, a box containing innumerable evils, fabled to…
  3. Pān'do-ran, n.p. 943A pandore.
  4. Pan-dōre' or Pān'dōre, n.p. 943An ancient instrument of music of the lute kind; a bandore. Drayton.
  5. Pān'dour, n.p. 943A Hungarian foot-soldier in the Austrian service. [Written also pandoor.] When leagued oppression poured to northern wars Her whiskered pandours and her fierce hussars. Campbell.
  6. Pan-dow'dy, n.p. 943A baked pudding made of sliced bread and apples in alternate layers. Simmonds.
  7. Păn'du-rate or Pan-dū'rī-fōrm, a.p. 943(Bot.) Obovate, with a concavity in each side, like the body of a fiddle or violin; fiddle-shaped.
  8. Pāne, n.p. 943A distinct patch, piece, or compartment; a limited part of a surface. 2. Especially, a plate of glass; one of the pieces of glass inserted in a door, a sash, and the like. 3. A square piece of silk…
  9. Pāned, a.p. 943Having panes or small squares of silk, &c. “Paned hose.” Massinger.
  10. Păn'e-gy̆r'ic, n.p. 943An oration or eulogy in praise of some distinguished person or achievement; a formal or elaborate encomium; a laudatory discourse; encomium. Burke. Syn.—Eulogy; encomium. See EULOGY.
  11. Păn'e-gy'rie or Păn'e-gy'rie-al, a.p. 943Containing praise or eulogy; encomiastic.
  12. Pān'e-ǧyr'īe-al-ly, adv.p. 943In a panegyrical manner; by way of praise.
  13. Pa-nĕg'y-ris, n.p. 943A festival; a public meeting. [Obs.] Milton.
  14. Păn'e-ġy̆r'ist, n.p. 943One who bestows praise; a eulogist; an encomiast, either by writing or speaking. Camden.
  15. Păn'e-ġy-rīze, v. t.p. 943To praise highly; to write or pronounce a eulogy upon.
  16. Păn'e-ġy-rīze, v. i.p. 943To bestow praises. Mitford.
  17. Păn'e-ġy̆r'y, n.p. 943A panegyric. [Obs.] Milton.
  18. Păn'el, n.p. 943(Arch.) A compartment with raised margins, molded or otherwise, as in ceilings, wainscotings, and the like. 2. (Joinery.) A board having its edges inserted in the groove of a surrounding frame; as…
  19. Pān'el, v. t.p. 943To form with panels; as, to panel a wainscot.
  20. Pān'el-ā'tion, n.p. 943The act of impaneling a jury. [Obs.] A. Wood.
  21. Pān'el-gāme, n.p. 943A mode of stealing or extorting money, as in a panel-house. See PANEL-HOUSE.
  22. Pān'el-house, n.p. 943A house of ill-fame to which persons are enticed by a woman sent out for the purpose; after which a man (usually pretending to be the woman's husband) suddenly enters the room by some secret passage…
  23. Pān'el-ing, n.p. 943The laying out in panels; panel-work.
  24. Pāne'less, a.p. 943Without panes of glass. Shenstone.
  25. Păn'el-săw, n.p. 943A saw having very fine teeth, for cutting out panels. Tomlinson.
  26. Pān'el-thiēf, n.p. 943One who extorts money by threats of violence in a panel-house. See PANEL-HOUSE.
  27. Pān'el-work, n.p. 943Wainscoting.
  28. Pan-eu'lo-gĭsm, n.p. 943Eulogism of every thing; indiscriminate praise. With all its excellencies, — and they are many, — her book has a trace of the cant of paneulogism. National Rev.
  29. Păn'ful, n.p. 943The quantity that a pan will hold; enough to fill a pan.
  30. Pāng, n.p. 943A paroxysm of extreme distress; a momentary and violent pain; a transitory or recurring attack of agony; a throe. I saw the hoary traitor Grin in the pangs of death, and bite the ground. Addison.…
  31. Pāng, v. t.p. 943To torture; to give extreme pain to; to torment. [Rare.] Shak.
  32. Pāṅ'go-lin, n.p. 943The same as MANIS.
  33. Pān'/hel-lēn'ic, a.p. 943Pertaining to all Greece.
  34. Pan-hĕl'len-īsm, n.p. 943A scheme of forming one political body of all the Greeks.
  35. Pan-hēl'len-ist, n.p. 943One in favor of panhellenism.
  36. Pān'hel-lē'ni-ūm, n.p. 943(Gr. Antiq.) The national council or congress of Greece. Anderson.
  37. Pān'ic, n.p. 943A sudden fright; especially, a sudden fright without real cause, or terror inspired by a trifling cause or misapprehension of danger; as, the troops were seized with a panic; they fled in a panic.
  38. Pān'ic, a.p. 943Extreme or sudden, imaginary, and causeless;—said of fear or fright; as, panic fear.
  39. Pān'ic, n.p. 943(Bot.) A plant of the genus Panicum; panic-grass; also, the grain of the panic-grass.
  40. Pān'ic-al, a.p. 943Pertaining to, or resembling, a panic; filled with sudden and groundless fear; panic. [Obs.]
  41. Pān'ic-ful, a.p. 943Filled with panic fear; panical. [Obs.]
  42. Pān'ic-grāss, n.p. 943(Bot.) A plant of the genus Panicum; oatmeal.
  43. Păn'i-ele, n.p. 943(Bot.) A form of inflorescence, in which the cluster is much and irregularly branched, in a branched raceme, as in oats and some of the grasses. The panicle is of various kinds, as the dense or…
  44. Păn'i-cled, a.p. 943(Bot.) Furnished with panicles; arranged in, or like, panicles.
  45. Păn'ic-strĭck'en or Păn'ic-strŭck, a.p. 943Struck with a panic, or sudden fear.
  46. Pa-nĭc'ū-late or Pa-nĭc'ū-lā'ted, a.p. 943(Bot.) Furnished with, arranged in, or like panicles.
  47. Păn'i-cŭm, n.p. 943(Bot.) A genus of grasses, including many species, some of which are valuable; panic-grass.
  48. Păn'ier, n.p. 943One who waits at table in the society of the Temple, London. [Written also pannier.]
  49. Pa-nĭv'o-roŭs, a.p. 943Eating bread; subsisting on bread.
  50. Pan-nāde', n.p. 943The curvet of a horse.
  51. Păn'nage, n.p. 943The food of swine in the woods, as beech-nuts, acorns, &c.; called also pawns; also, a duty paid for the privilege of feeding swine in the woods. Cowell. Fleta.
  52. Păn'na-ry, a.p. 943Pertaining to, or producing, bread; used in making bread, or capable of being so used. [Rare.] Loudon.
  53. Păn'nel, n.p. 943A kind of rustic saddle. Tusser. 2. The stomach of a hawk. Ainsworth.
  54. Păn'ni-cle, n.p. 943(Bot.) Panic grass.
  55. Păn'nier, n.p. 943A bread-basket; hence, a wicker-basket used for carrying fruit or other things on a horse. 2. (Arch.) The same as CORBEL. See CORBEL. 3. A shield of basket-work formerly used by archers, who set them…
  56. Păn'ni-kel, n.p. 943The brain-pan or skull; hence, the crest. [Obs.] “He smote him so rudely on the pannikel.” Spenser.
  57. Păn'ni-kĭn, n.p. 943A small pan or cup. Marryatt.
  58. Păn'om-phē'an, a.p. 943Uttering ominous or prophetic voices; divining; — an epithet of Jupiter. We want no half-gods, panomphean Joves. E. B. Browning.
  59. Păn'o-plied, a.p. 943Dressed in panoply; completely armed.
  60. Păn'o-ply, n.p. 943Complete armor or defense; armament; a full suit of defensive armor. We had need to take the Christian panoply, to put on the whole armor of God. Ray.