Panada
(Pa*na"da Pa*nade") n. [Sp. panada, fr. L. panis bread: cf. F. panade. See Pantry.] Bread
boiled in water to the consistence of pulp, and sweetened or flavored. [Written also panado.]
Panade
(Pa*nade") n. A dagger. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Panama hat
(Pan`a*ma" hat`) A fine plaited hat, made in Central America of the young leaves of a plant
(Carludovica palmata).
Pan-American
(Pan`-A*mer"i*can) a. [See Pan- .] Of or pertaining to both North and South America.
Pan-Anglican
(Pan`-An"gli*can) a. [Pan- + Anglican.] (Eccl.) Belonging to, or representing, the whole
Church of England; used less strictly, to include the Protestant Episcopal Church of the United States; as,
the Pan- Anglican Conference at Lambeth, in 1888.
Panary
(Pan"a*ry) a. [L. panis bread.] Of or pertaining to bread or to breadmaking.
Panary
(Pan"a*ry), n. A storehouse for bread. Halliwell.
Pancake
(Pan"cake`) n. A thin cake of batter fried in a pan or on a griddle; a griddlecake; a flapjack. "A
pancake for Shrove Tuesday." Shak.
Pancarte
(Pan"carte`) n. [F., fr. LL. pancharta. See Pan-, and Carte.] A royal charter confirming to a
subject all his possessions. [Obs.] Holinshed.
Pance
(Pance) n. (Bot.) The pansy. [Also paunce.]
Panch
(Panch) n. (Naut.) See Paunch.
Panchway
(Panch"way) n. [Hind. panoi.] (Naut.) A Bengalese four-oared boat for passengers. [Written
also panshway and paunchwas.] Malcom.
Pancratian
(Pan*cra"tian) a. Pancratic; athletic.
Pancratiast
(Pan*cra"ti*ast) n. One who engaged in the contests of the pancratium.
Pancratiastic
(Pan*cra`ti*as"tic) a. Of or pertaining to the pancratium. G. West.
Pancratic
(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.
Pancratic
(Pan*crat"ic Pan*crat"ic*al) a. [See Pancratium.] Of or pertaining to the pancratium; athletic.
Sir T. Browne
Pancratist
(Pan"cra*tist) n. An athlete; a gymnast.
Pancratium
(||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.
Pancreas
(Pan"cre*as) n. [NL., fr. Gr. all + flesh, meat: cf. F. pancréas.] (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.
