Growing or living in marshy places; marshy.

See Palulus or Palus.

Same as Palus.

One of several upright slender calcareous processes which surround the central part of the calicle of certain corals.

Of or pertaining to a bog or marsh; boggy.

Of, pertaining to, or living in, a marsh or swamp; marshy.

Divided into four or more equal parts by perpendicular lines, and of two different tinctures disposed alternately.

The knave of clubs.

A form of the female given name Pamela.

A pavement.

A plain. See pampas.

Same as Pompano.

Vast grass-covered plains in the central and southern part of the Argentine Republic in South America. The term is sometimes used in a wider sense for the plains east of the Andes extending from Bolivia to Southern Patagonia.

Fed luxuriously; indulged to the full; hence, luxuriant; as, pampered children.

One who, or that which, pampers.

To pamper.

A violent wind from the west or southwest, which sweeps over the pampas of South America and the adjacent seas, often doing great damage.

A tribe of Indians inhabiting the pampas of South America.

To write a pamphlet or pamphlets.

To write or publish pamphlets.

In the form of tendrils; -- applied especially to the spermatic and ovarian veins.

An ornament, composed of vine leaves and bunches of grapes, used for decorating spiral columns.

Having all the toes turned forward, as the colies.

To scan (a movie camera), usu. in a horizontal direction, to obtain a panoramic effect; also, to move the camera so as to keep the subject in view.

To succeed; as, the project didn't pan out.

Of or pertaining to both North and South America.

The principle or advocacy of a political alliance or union of all the states of America.

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.

To fry in a pan.

Same as Tetrahedrite.

Having the properties of a panacea.

A plume or bunch of feathers, esp. such a bunch worn on the helmet; any military plume, or ornamental group of feathers.

A dagger.

Bread boiled in water to the consistence of pulp, and sweetened or flavored.

Of or pert. to Panama. A native or citizen of Panama.

A low stingless nettle (Pilea involucrata) of Central and South America having velvety brownish-green toothed leaves and clusters of small green flowers.

Same as panamica.

A storehouse for bread.

The most ancient and important festival of Athens, celebrated in honor of Athena, the tutelary goddess of the city.

A genus of perennial herbs of eastern North America and Asia having aromatic tuberous roots: ginseng.

A thin cake of batter fried in a pan or on a griddle; a griddlecake; a flapjack.

A royal charter confirming to a subject all his possessions.

The pansy.

See Paunch.

A Bengalese four-oared boat for passengers.

Pancratic; athletic.

One who engaged in the contests of the pancratium.

Of or pertaining to the pancratium.

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.

Of or pertaining to the pancratium; athletic.

An athlete; a gymnast.

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.

Of or pertaining to the pancreas; as, the pancreatic secretion, digestion, ferments.

One of the digestive enzymes of the pancreatic juice.

See pansy.

A small Asiatic mammal (Ailurus fulgens) having fine soft fur, which inhabits the mountains of Northern India. It was once thought to be related to the bears, but is now believed to be more closely related to raccoons. It has reddish-brown fur on the back and sides, and black fur on the legs and underside. Called also the lesser panda.

A natural family of woody plants including the pandanus tree (the screw pine) and freycinetia.

An order of plants including the families Typhaceae; Sparganiaceae; and Pandanaceae.

A genus of endogenous plants, native to tropical lands from Africa to Polynesia. See Screw pine.

Same as Pander.

To pander.

Panderous.

Of or relating to the god Pan.

A primitive wind instrument, consisting of a series of short hollow reeds or pipes, graduated in length by the musical scale, and fastened together side by side; a syrinx; a mouth organ; -- said to have been invented by the god Pan. Called also pipes of Pan, Pan's pipes and Panpipes.

A treatise which comprehends the whole of any science.

Affecting a whole people or a number of countries; everywhere epidemic. A pandemic disease.

The great hall or council chamber of demons or evil spirits.

To act the part of a pander.

The act of pandering.

The employment, arts, or practices of a pander.

Having the quality of a pander.

A hydrous borate of lime, near priceite.

Of or relating to a pander; characterizing a pander.

Extended; spread out; stretched.

A stretching and stiffening of the trunk and extremities, as when fatigued and drowsy.

Same as Pundit.

Same as Pandour.

A beautiful woman (all-gifted), whom Jupiter caused Vulcan to make out of clay in order to punish the human race, because Prometheus had stolen the fire from heaven. Jupiter gave Pandora a box containing all human ills, which, when the box was opened, escaped and spread over the earth. Hope alone remained in the box. Another version makes the box contain all the blessings of the gods, which were lost to men when Pandora opened it.

An ancient musical instrument, of the lute kind; a bandore.

One of a class of Hungarian mountaineers serving in the Austrian army that served as local militia in Croatia; -- so called from Pandur, a principal town in the region from which they originally came. They were noted for their ruthlessness.

See pandore .

A deep pie or pudding made of baked apples, or of sliced bread and apples baked together, with no bottom crust.

Same as pandurate.

Obovate, with a concavity in each side, like the body of a violin; fiddle-shaped; as, a panduriform leaf; panduriform color markings of an animal.

A division; a distinct piece, limited part, or compartment of any surface; a patch; hence, a square of a checkered or plaided pattern.

Having panes; provided with panes; also, having openings; as, a paned window; paned window sash.

An oration or eulogy in praise of some person or achievement; a formal or elaborate encomium; a laudatory discourse; laudation. See Synonym of Eulogy.

Containing praise or eulogy; encomiastic; laudatory.

A festival; a public assembly.

One who delivers a panegyric; a eulogist; one who extols or praises, either by writing or speaking.

To indulge in panegyrics.

A panegyric.

To form in or with panels; as, to panel a wainscot.

The act of impaneling a jury.

Decorated with panels or wainscoting; -- used of walls; as, a paneled family room.

Without panes.

The act or process of forming in panels or decorating with panels.

Wainscoting.

Same as panatela.

A long slender cigar.

Eulogy of everything; indiscriminate praise.

Any of numerous small food fishes; especially those not available on the market.

Enough to fill a pan.

A paroxysm of extreme pain or anguish; a sudden and transitory agony; a throe; as, the pangs of death.

To torture; to cause to have great pain or suffering; to torment.

An hypothesis advanced by Darwin in explanation of heredity.

Of or pertaining to pangenesis.

Full of pangs.

Without a pang; painless.

Any one of several species of Manis, Pholidotus, and related genera, found in Africa and Asia. They are covered with imbricated scales, and feed upon ants. Called also scaly ant-eater.

Of, pertaining to, or including, all the Gothic races.

to obtain by panhandling.

To accost people in a public place and ask for money; to beg.

Of or pertaining to all Greece, or to Panhellenism; including all Greece, or all the Greeks.

A scheme to unite all the Greeks in one political body.

An advocate of Panhellenism.

An assembly or association of Greeks from all the states of Greece.

A sudden, overpowering fright; esp., a sudden and groundless fright; terror inspired by a trifling cause or a misapprehension of danger; as, the troops were seized with a panic; they fled in a panic.

Struck with a panic, or sudden fear; thrown into a state of intense fear; as, trying to keep back the panic-stricken crowd.

See Panic, a.