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.

Same as Panderism.

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.

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.

Same as panic-stricken; as, the travellers became panicky as the snow deepened.

A pyramidal form of inflorescence, in which the cluster is loosely branched below and gradually simpler toward the end.

Furnished with panicles; arranged in, or like, panicles; paniculate.

Same as Panicled.

A genus of grasses, including several hundred species, some of which are valuable; panic grass.

Having a completely idiomorphic structure; -- said of certain rocks.

See Pannier, 3.

The act or process of making bread.

See Painim.

A desire or plan for the union of all Muslim nations for the conquest of the world.

Eating bread; subsisting on bread.

The curvet of a horse.

The food of swine in the woods, as beechnuts, acorns, etc.; -- called also pawns. A tax paid for the privilege of feeding swine in the woods.

See Panary.

A fabric resembling velvet, but having the nap flat and less close.

A kind of rustic saddle.

A bread basket; also, a wicker basket (used commonly in pairs) for carrying fruit or other things on a horse or an ass

Bearing panniers.

The brainpan, or skull; hence, the crest.

A small pan or cup.

The act or process in which heavier ores are concentrated by agitating a sample of crushed ore under water in a shallow pan, thus washing away the lighter particles from the sample; as, panning for gold. See pan{1}, v. t. and pan{1}, v. i.

Similar in texture or appearance to felt or woolen cloth.

A very vascular superficial opacity of the cornea, usually caused by granulation of the eyelids.

Producing ova only; -- said of the ovaries of certain insects which do not produce vitelligenous cells.

Uttering ominous or prophetic voices; divining.

Dressed in panoply.

Defensive armor in general; a full suit of defensive armor.

Including everying visible in one view; as, a panoptic aerial photograph of the missile base; a panoptic stain used in microscopy.

Of, pertaining to, or like, a panorama; exhibiting a very broad view; as, a panoramic view.

Like, or pertaining to, the genus Panorpa. Same as Panorpid.

Any neuropterous insect of the genus Panorpa, and allied genera. The larv/ feed on plant lice.

A medicine for all diseases; a panacea.

Belonging to, or representative of, those who hold Presbyterian views in all parts of the world; as, a Panpresbyterian council.

The theory that all nature is psychical or has a psychical aspect; the theory that every particle of matter has a psychical character or aspect.

An earthen vessel wider at the top than at the bottom, -- used for holding milk and for various other purposes.

Covered or adorned with pansies.

Pertaining to all the Slavic races.

A scheme or desire to unite all the Slavic races into one confederacy.

One who favors Panslavism.

See Panslavic.

All-wise; claiming universal knowledge; as, pansophical pretenders.

Universal wisdom; esp., a system of universal knowledge proposed by Comenius (1592 -- 1671), a Moravian educator.

Of or pertaining to panspermy; as, the panspermic hypothesis.

A believer in panspermy; one who rejects the theory of spontaneous generation; a biogenist.

The doctrine of the widespread distribution of germs, from which under favorable circumstances bacteria, vibrios, etc., may develop. The doctrine that all organisms must come from living parents; biogenesis; -- the opposite of spontaneous generation. The theory that life on earth originated from spores or germs that evolved elsewhere in the uiniverse; -- in contradistinction to the theory that life evolved on earth from inanimate matter. This theory, originally suggested by S. Arrhenius in 1907, is sometimes advanced by those who feel that the time required for evolution of life is too long for life to have evolved on Earth from inanimate matter.

A model of a town or country, in relief, executed in wood, cork, pasteboard, or the like.