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- English Word Panama hat Definition A fine plaited hat, made in Central America of the young leaves of a plant (Carludovica palmata).
- English Word Panary Definition Of or pertaining to bread or to breadmaking.
- English Word Panary Definition A storehouse for bread.
- English Word Pancake Definition A thin cake of batter fried in a pan or on a griddle; a griddlecake; a flapjack.
- English Word Pancarte Definition A royal charter confirming to a subject all his possessions.
- English Word Pance Definition The pansy.
- English Word Panch Definition See Paunch.
- English Word Panchway Definition A Bengalese four-oared boat for passengers.
- English Word Pancratian Definition Pancratic; athletic.
- English Word Pancratiast Definition One who engaged in the contests of the pancratium.
- English Word Pancratiastic Definition Of or pertaining to the pancratium.
- English Word Pancratic Definition 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.
- English Word Pancratic Definition Alt. of Pancratical
- English Word Pancratical Definition Of or pertaining to the pancratium; athletic.
- English Word Pancratist Definition An athlete; a gymnast.
- English Word Pancratium Definition An athletic contest involving both boxing and wrestling.
- English Word Pancratium Definition 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.
- English Word Pancreas Definition 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.
- English Word Pancreatic Definition Of or pertaining to the pancreas; as, the pancreatic secretion, digestion, ferments.
- English Word Pancreatin Definition 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.
- English Word Pancy Definition See Pansy.
- English Word Panda Definition A small Asiatic mammal (Ailurus fulgens) having fine soft fur. It is related to the bears, and inhabits the mountains of Northern India.
- English Word Pandanus Definition A genus of endogenous plants. See Screw pine.
- English Word Pandar Definition Same as Pander.
- English Word Pandarism Definition Same as Panderism.
- English Word Pandarize Definition To pander.
- English Word Pandarous Definition Panderous.
- English Word Pandean Definition Of or relating to the god Pan.
- English Word Pandect Definition A treatise which comprehends the whole of any science.
- English Word Pandect Definition 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.