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.

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.

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.

A plant of the genus Viola (Viola 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.

A quick breathing; a catching of the breath; a gasp.

Of or pertaining to pants.

See Pantofle.

See Cosmolabe.

See Pantograph.

The theory or practice of the medical profession; -- used in burlesque or ridicule.

One of the legs of the loose drawers worn by children and women; a pant leg; particularly, the lower part of such a garment, coming below the knee, often made in a separate piece; -- chiefly in the plural.

A ridiculous character, or an old dotard, in the Italian comedy; also, a buffoon in pantomimes.

The character or performances of a pantaloon; buffoonery.

That which assumes, or exists in, all forms.

Taking all forms.

A pantascopic camera.

Viewing all; taking a view of the whole. See under Camera.

One of the divisions of Flagellata, including the monads and allied forms.

A depository or place where all sorts of manufactured articles are collected for sale.

See under Telegraph.

A net; a noose.

Of or pertaining to all the Teutonic races.

The doctrine that the universe, taken or conceived of as a whole, is God; the doctrine that there is no God but the combined force and natural laws which are manifested in the existing universe; cosmotheism. The doctrine denies that God is a rational personality.

One who holds to pantheism.

Of or pertaining to pantheism; founded in, or leading to, pantheism.

One versed in pantheology.

A system of theology embracing all religions; a complete system of theology.

A temple dedicated to all the gods; especially, the building so called at Rome.

The genus of large felines including the lions; leopards; snow leopards; jaguars; tigers; cheetahs; and saber-toothed tigers.

A female panther.

Like a panther, esp. in color; as, the pantherine snake (Ptyas mucosus) of Brazil.

A pair of short underpants for women or children (usually used in the plural).

A roofing tile, of peculiar form, having a transverse section resembling an elongated S laid on its side (/).

The act or process of breathing heavily, usually after exertion.

With palpitation or rapid breathing.

A Utopian community, in which all should rule equally, such as was devised by Coleridge, Lovell, and Southey, in their younger days.

A pantisocratist.

Of or pertaining to a pantisocracy.

One who favors or supports the theory of a pantisocracy.

The servant or officer, in a great family, who has charge of the bread and the pantry.

An instrument combining a compass, sundial, and universal time dial.

A slipper for the foot.

An instrument for copying plans, maps, and other drawings, on the same, or on a reduced or an enlarged, scale.

Of or pertaining to a pantograph; relating to pantography.

A general description; entire view of an object.

Of or pertaining to pantology.

One versed in pantology; a writer of pantology.

A systematic view of all branches of human knowledge; a work of universal information.

An instrument for measuring angles for determining elevations, distances, etc.

Universal measurement.

Representing only in mute actions; pantomimic; as, a pantomime dance.

Of or pertaining to the pantomime; representing by dumb show.

An actor in pantomime; also, a composer of pantomimes.

A horseshoe to correct a narrow, hoofbound heel.

A person or an animal that has the habit of eating all kinds of food.

Eating all kinds of food.

The habit or power of eating all kinds of food.

Same as Pycnogonida.

Literally, seeing everything; -- a term applied to eyeglasses or spectacles divided into two segments, the upper being designed for distant vision, the lower for vision of near objects.

An apartment or closet in which bread and other provisions are kept.

A garment extending from the waist to the knee or ankle, covering each leg separately.