4. A framework of steel or whalebone, worn by women to expand their
dresses; a kind of bustle.
Pan"niered (?), a. Bearing panniers. Wordsworth.
Pan"ni*kel (?), n. [See Pan a dish.] The brainpan, or skull; hence, the
crest. [Obs.] Spenser.
Pan"ni*kin (?), n. [Dim. of pan a dish.] A small pan or cup. Marryat.
Thackeray.
Pan"nose` (?), a. [See Pannus.] (Bot.) Similar in texture or appearance
to felt or woolen cloth.
||Pan"nus (?), n. [L., cloth. See 2d Pane.] (Med.) A very vascular
||superficial opacity of the cornea, usually caused by granulation of
||the eyelids. Foster.
Pan`o*is"tic (?), a. [Pan- + Gr. &?; an egg.] (Zoˆl.) Producing ova
only; -- said of the ovaries of certain insects which do not produce
vitelligenous cells.
Pan`om*phe"an (?), a. [L. panomphaeus, Gr. &?;.] Uttering ominous or
prophetic voices; divining. [R.]
We want no half gods, panomphean Joves.
Mrs. Browning.
Pan"o*plied (?), a. Dressed in panoply.
Pan"o*ply (?), n. [Gr. &?;; &?;, &?;, all + &?; tool, implement, in
pl., armor, arms.] Defensive armor in general; a full suit of defensive
armor. Milton.
We had need to take the Christian panoply, to put on the whole
armor of God.
Ray.