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  • English Word Pampiniform Definition In the form of tendrils; -- applied especially to the spermatic and ovarian veins.
  • English Word Pampre Definition An ornament, composed of vine leaves and bunches of grapes, used for decorating spiral columns.
  • English Word Pamprodactylous Definition Having all the toes turned forward, as the colies.
  • English Word Pan Definition A part; a portion.
  • English Word Pan Definition The distance comprised between the angle of the epaule and the flanked angle.
  • English Word Pan Definition A leaf of gold or silver.
  • English Word Pan Definition To join or fit together; to unite.
  • English Word Pan Definition The betel leaf; also, the masticatory made of the betel leaf, etc. See /etel.
  • English Word Pan Definition The god of shepherds, guardian of bees, and patron of fishing and hunting. He is usually represented as having the head and trunk of a man, with the legs, horns, and tail of a goat, and as playing on the shepherd's pipe, which he is said to have invented.
  • English Word Pan Definition A shallow, open dish or vessel, usually of metal, employed for many domestic uses, as for setting milk for cream, for frying or baking food, etc.; also employed for various uses in manufacturing.
  • English Word Pan Definition A closed vessel for boiling or evaporating. See Vacuum pan, under Vacuum.
  • English Word Pan Definition The part of a flintlock which holds the priming.
  • English Word Pan Definition The skull, considered as a vessel containing the brain; the upper part of the head; the brainpan; the cranium.
  • English Word Pan Definition A recess, or bed, for the leaf of a hinge.
  • English Word Pan Definition The hard stratum of earth that lies below the soil. See Hard pan, under Hard.
  • English Word Pan Definition A natural basin, containing salt or fresh water, or mud.
  • English Word Pan Definition To separate, as gold, from dirt or sand, by washing in a kind of pan.
  • English Word Pan Definition To yield gold in, or as in, the process of panning; -- usually with out; as, the gravel panned out richly.
  • English Word Pan Definition To turn out (profitably or unprofitably); to result; to develop; as, the investigation, or the speculation, panned out poorly.
  • English Word Pan- Definition Alt. of Panto-
  • English Word Pan-American Definition Of or pertaining to both North and South America.
  • English Word Pan-Anglican Definition 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.
  • English Word Panabase Definition Same as Tetrahedrite.
  • English Word Panacea Definition A remedy for all diseases; a universal medicine; a cure-all; catholicon; hence, a relief or solace for affliction.
  • English Word Panacea Definition The herb allheal.
  • English Word Panacean Definition Having the properties of a panacea.
  • English Word Panache Definition A plume or bunch of feathers, esp. such a bunch worn on the helmet; any military plume, or ornamental group of feathers.
  • English Word Panada Definition Alt. of Panade
  • English Word Panade Definition Bread boiled in water to the consistence of pulp, and sweetened or flavored.
  • English Word Panade Definition A dagger.