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  • English Word Panspermy Definition The doctrine that all organisms must come from living parents; biogenesis; -- the opposite of spontaneous generation.
  • English Word Panstereorama Definition A model of a town or country, in relief, executed in wood, cork, pasteboard, or the like.
  • English Word Pansy Definition A plant of the genus Viola (V. tricolor) and its blossom, originally purple and yellow. Cultivated varieties have very large flowers of a great diversity of colors. Called also heart's-ease, love-in-idleness, and many other quaint names.
  • English Word Pant Definition To breathe quickly or in a labored manner, as after exertion or from eagerness or excitement; to respire with heaving of the breast; to gasp.
  • English Word Pant Definition Hence: To long eagerly; to desire earnestly.
  • English Word Pant Definition To beat with unnatural violence or rapidity; to palpitate, or throb; -- said of the heart.
  • English Word Pant Definition To sigh; to flutter; to languish.
  • English Word Pant Definition To breathe forth quickly or in a labored manner; to gasp out.
  • English Word Pant Definition To long for; to be eager after.
  • English Word Pant Definition A quick breathing; a catching of the breath; a gasp.
  • English Word Pant Definition A violent palpitation of the heart.
  • English Word Panta- Definition See Pan-.
  • English Word Panta- Definition Alt. of Panto-
  • English Word Pantable Definition See Pantofle.
  • English Word Pantacosm Definition See Cosmolabe.
  • English Word Pantagraph Definition See Pantograph.
  • English Word Pantagruelism Definition The theory or practice of the medical profession; -- used in burlesque or ridicule.
  • English Word Pantagruelism Definition An assumption of buffoonery to cover some serious purpose.
  • English Word Pantalet Definition One of the legs of the loose drawers worn by children and women; particularly, the lower part of such a garment, coming below the knee, often made in a separate piece; -- chiefly in the plural.
  • English Word Pantaloon Definition A ridiculous character, or an old dotard, in the Italian comedy; also, a buffoon in pantomimes.
  • English Word Pantaloon Definition A bifurcated garment for a man, covering the body from the waist downwards, and consisting of breeches and stockings in one.
  • English Word Pantaloon Definition In recent times, same as Trousers.
  • English Word Pantaloonery Definition The character or performances of a pantaloon; buffoonery.
  • English Word Pantaloonery Definition Materials for pantaloons.
  • English Word Pantamorph Definition That which assumes, or exists in, all forms.
  • English Word Pantamorphic Definition Taking all forms.
  • English Word Pantascope Definition A pantascopic camera.
  • English Word Pantascopic Definition Viewing all; taking a view of the whole. See under Camera.
  • English Word Pantastomata Definition One of the divisions of Flagellata, including the monads and allied forms.
  • English Word Pantechnicon Definition A depository or place where all sorts of manufactured articles are collected for sale.