Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Pangenesis

Pan‐gen″e‐sis (?), n. [Pan- + genesis.] (Biol.) An hypothesis advanced by Darwin in explanation of heredity.☞ The theory rests on the assumption, that the whole organization, in...

596

Pangenetic

Pan′ge‐net″ic (?), a.(Biol.) Of or pertaining to pangenesis.

597

Pangful

Pang″ful (?), a. Full of pangs. Richardson.

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Pangless

Pang″less, a. Without a pang; painless. Byron.

599

Pangolin

Pan″go‐lin (păṉ″gō̍‐lĭn), n. [Malay pangūlang.] (Zoöl.) Any one of several species of Manis, Pholidotus, and related genera, found in Africa and Asia. They are covered with imbr...

600

Pangothic

Pan‐goth″ic (?), a. [Pan- + Gothic.] Of, pertaining to, or including, all the Gothic races. “Ancestral Pangothic stock.” Earle.

601

Panhandle

Pan″han′dle (?), n. The handle of a pan; hence, fig., any arm or projection suggestive of the handle of a pan; as, the panhandle of West Virginia, Texas, or Idaho.

602

Panhandle State

Panhandle State. West Virginia; — a nickname.

603

Panhellenic

Pan′hel‐len″ic (?), a. [See Panhellenium.] Of or pertaining to all Greece, or to Panhellenism; including all Greece, or all the Greeks.

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Panhellenism

Pan‐hel″len‐ism (?), n. A scheme to unite all the Greeks in one political body.

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Panhellenist

Pan‐hel″len‐ist, n. An advocate of Panhellenism.

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Panhellenium

Pan′hel‐le″ni‐um (?), n. [NL., from Gr. Πανελλἥνιον; πα̑σ, πα̑ν, all + Ἕλληνεσ the Greeks.] (Gr. Antiq.) An assembly or association of Greeks from all the states of Greece.

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Panic

Pan″ic (?), n. [L. panicum.] (Bot.) A plant of the genus Panicum; panic grass; also, the edible grain of some species of panic grass.Panic grass(Bot.), any grass of the genus Pa...

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Panic (2)

Pan″ic, a. [Gr. πανικόσ of or pertaining to Πάν Pan, to whom the causing of sudden fright was ascribed: cf. F. panique.] Extreme or sudden and causeless; unreasonable; — said of...

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Panic (3)

Pan″ic, n. [Gr. τὸ πανικόν (with or without δει̑μα fear): cf. F. panique. See Panic, a.] 1. A sudden, overpowering fright; esp., a sudden and groundless fright; terror inspired ...

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Panic-stricken

{ Pan″ic–strick′en (?), Pan″ic–struck′ (?) }, a. Struck with a panic, or sudden fear. Burke.

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Panical

Pan″ic‐al (?), a. See Panic, a.Camden.

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Panicle

Pan″i‐cle (?), n. [L. panicula a tuft on plants, dim. of panus the thread wound upon the bobbin in a shuttle; cf. Gr. �, �; prob. akin to E. pane: cf. F. panicule. See 2d Pane.]...

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Panicled

Pan″i‐cled (?), a.(Bot.) Furnished with panicles; arranged in, or like, panicles; paniculate.

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Paniculate

{ Pa‐nic″u‐late (?), Pa‐nic″u‐la′ted (?), } a. [See Panicle.] (Bot) Same as Panicled.

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Panicum

‖Pan″i‐cum (?), n.(Bot.) A genus of grasses, including several hundred species, some of which are valuable; panic grass.

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Panidiomorphic

Pan‐id′i‐o‐mor″phic (?), a. [Pan- + idiomorphic.] (Geol.) Having a completely idiomorphic structure; — said of certain rocks.

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Panier

Pan″ier (?), n. See Pannier, 3.

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Panification

Pan′i‐fi‐ca″tion (?), n. [L. panis bread + -ficare (in comp.) to make: cf. F. panification.] The act or process of making bread. Ure.

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Panim

Pa″nim (?), n. See Painim. Milton.

620

Panislamism

Pan‐is″lam‐ism (?), n. [Pan- + Islamism.] A desire or plan for the union of all Mohammedan nations for the conquest of the world.

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Panivorous

Pa‐niv″o‐rous (?), a. [L. panis bread + vorare to devour.] Eating bread; subsisting on bread.