6. (Painting) A slab or plank of wood upon which, instead of canvas, a
picture is painted.
7. (Mining) (a) A heap of dressed ore. (b) One of the districts divided
by pillars of extra size, into which a mine is laid off in one system
of extracting coal.
8. (Dressmaking) A plain strip or band, as of velvet or plush, placed
at intervals lengthwise on the skirt of a dress, for ornament.
9. A portion of a framed structure between adjacent posts or struts, as
in a bridge truss.
Panel game, a method of stealing money in a panel house. -- Panel
house, a house of prostitution in which the rooms have secret entrances
to facilitate theft by accomplices of the inmates. -- Panel saw,
handsaw with fine teeth, -- used for cutting out panels, etc. -- Panel
thief, one who robs in a panel house.
Pan"el (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Paneled (?) or Panelled; p. pr. & vb.
n. Paneling or Panelling.] To form in or with panels; as, to panel a
wainscot.
Paneled back (Arch.), the paneled work covering the window back. See
Window back.
Pan`el*a"tion (?), n. The act of impaneling a jury. [Obs.] [Written
also panellation.] Wood.
Pane"less (?), a. Without panes.
To patch his paneless window.
Shenstone.
Pan"el*ing (?), n. A forming in panels; panelwork. [Written also
panelling.]
Pan"el*work` (?), n. (Arch.) Wainscoting.
Pan*eu"lo*gism (?), n. [See Pan-, Eulogy.] Eulogy of everything;
indiscriminate praise. [R.]
Her book has a trace of the cant of paneulogism.
National Rev.
Pan"ful (?), n.; pl. Panfuls (#). [See 5th Pan.] Enough to fill a pan.
Pang (?), n. [Prob. for older prange. Cf. Prong.] A paroxysm of extreme
pain or anguish; a sudden and transitory agony; a throe; as, the pangs
of death.
Syn. -- Agony; anguish; distress. See Agony.
Pang, v. t. To torture; to cause to have great pain or suffering; to
torment. [R.] Shak.
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 the
sense of every separate atom or unit, reproduces itself, the cells
throwing off minute granules called gemmules, which circulate freely
throughout the system and multiply by subdivision. These gemmules
collect in the reproductive organs and products, or in buds, so that
the egg or bud contains gemmules from all parts of the parent or
parents, which in development give rise to cells in the offspring
similar to those from which they were given off in the parent. The
hypothesis also assumes that these gemmules need not in all cases
develop into cells, but may lie dormant, and be transmitted from
generation to generation without producing a noticeable effect until a
case of atavism occurs.
Pan`ge*net"ic (?), a. (Biol.) Of or pertaining to pangenesis.
Pang"ful (?), a. Full of pangs. Richardson.
Pang"less, a. Without a pang; painless. Byron.
Pan"go*lin (?), n. [Malay pang&?;lang.] (Zoˆl.) 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.
Pan*goth"ic (?), a. [Pan- + Gothic.] Of, pertaining to, or including,
all the Gothic races. "Ancestral Pangothic stock." Earle.
Pan`hel*len"ic (?), a. [See Panhellenium.] Of or pertaining to all
Greece, or to Panhellenism; including all Greece, or all the Greeks.
Pan*hel"len*ism (?), n. A scheme to unite all the Greeks in one
political body.
Pan*hel"len*ist, n. An advocate of Panhellenism.
Pan`hel*le"ni*um (?), n. [NL., from Gr. &?;; &?;, &?;, all + &?; the
Greeks.] (Gr. Antiq.) An assembly or association of Greeks from all the
states of Greece.
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 Panicum.
Pan"ic, a. [Gr. &?; of or pertaining to &?; Pan, to whom the causing of
sudden fright was ascribed: cf. F. panique.] Extreme or sudden and
causeless; unreasonable; - - said of fear or fright; as, panic fear,
terror, alarm. "A panic fright." Dryden.
Pan"ic, n. [Gr. &?; (with or without &?; fear): cf. F. panigue. See
Panic, a.] 1. 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.
2. By extension: A sudden widespread fright or apprehension concerning
financial affairs.
Pan"ic*al (?), a. See Panic, a. [Obs.] Camden.
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.] (Bot.) A pyramidal form of
inflorescence, in which the cluster is loosely branched below and
gradually simpler toward the end.
Pan"i*cled (?), a. (Bot.) Furnished with panicles; arranged in, or
like, panicles; paniculate.
{ Pan"ic-strick`en (?), Pan"ic-struck` (?) }, a. Struck with a panic,
or sudden fear. Burke.
{ Pa*nic"u*late (?), Pa*nic"u*la`ted (?), } a. [See Panicle.] (Bot)
Same as Panicled.
||Pan"i*cum (?), n. [L., panic grass.] (Bot.) A genus of grasses,
||including several hundred species, some of which are valuable; panic
||grass.
Pan*id`i*o*mor"phic (?), a. [Pan- + idiomorphic.] (Geol.) Having a
completely idiomorphic structure; -- said of certain rocks.