Panch (?), n. (Naut.) See Paunch.
Panch"way (?), n. [Hind. pan&?;oi.] (Naut.) A Bengalese four-oared boat
for passengers. [Written also panshway and paunchwas.] Malcom.
Pan*cra"tian (?), a. Pancratic; athletic.
Pan*cra"ti*ast (?), n. One who engaged in the contests of the
pancratium.
Pan*cra`ti*as"tic (?), a. Of or pertaining to the pancratium. G. West.
Pan*crat"ic (?), a. [Gr. &?; all- powerful.] (Opt.) 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.
{ Pan*crat"ic (?), Pan*crat"ic*al (?), } a. [See Pancratium.] Of or
pertaining to the pancratium; athletic. Sir T. Browne
Pan"cra*tist (?), n. An athlete; a gymnast.
||Pan*cra"ti*um (?), n. [L., fr. Gr. &?; a complete contest, fr. &?;
||all-powerful; &?;, &?;, all + &?; strength.]
1. (Gr. Antiq.) An athletic contest involving both boxing and
wrestling.
2. (Bot.) A genus of Old World amaryllideous bulbous plants, having a
funnel-shaped perianth with six narrow spreading lobes. The American
species are now placed in the related genus Hymenocallis.
Pan"cre*as (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. &?;; &?;, &?;, all + &?; flesh, meat:
cf. F. pancrÈas.] (Anat.) 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.
Pan`cre*at"ic (?), a. [Cf. F. pancrÈatique.] (Anat.) Of or pertaining
to the pancreas; as, the pancreatic secretion, digestion, ferments.
Pancreatic juice (Physiol.), a colorless alkaline fluid secreted
intermittently by the pancreatic gland. It is one of the most important
of the digestive fluids, containing at least three distinct ferments,
trypsin, steapsin and an amylolytic ferment, by which it acts upon all
three classes of food stuffs. See Pancreas.
Pan"cre*a*tin (?), n. [See Pancreas.] (Physiol. Chem.) One of the
digestive ferments of the pancreatic juice; also, a preparation
containing such a ferment, made from the pancreas of animals, and used
in medicine as an aid to digestion.
By some the term pancreatin is restricted to the amylolytic ferment of
the pancreatic juice, by others it is applied to trypsin, and by still
others to steapsin.
Pan"cy (?), n. See Pansy. [Obs.] Dryden.
Pan"da (?), n. (Zoˆl.) A small Asiatic mammal (Ailurus fulgens) having
fine soft fur. It is related to the bears, and inhabits the mountains
of Northern India.
||Pan*da"nus (?), n. [NL., fr. Malay pandan.] (Bot.) A genus of
||endogenous plants. See Screw pine.
Pan"dar (?), n. Same as Pander. "Seized by the pandar of Appius."
Macaulay.
Pan"dar*ism (?), n. Same as Panderism. Swift.