Pam
(Pam) n. [From Palm victory; cf. trump, fr. triumph.] The knave of clubs. [Obs.] Pope.
Pament
(Pa"ment) n. A pavement. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Pampano
(||Pam"pa*no) n. [Sp.] (Zoöl.) Same as Pompano.
Pampas
(Pam"pas) n. pl. [Sp., fr. Peruv. pampa a field, plain.] Vast plains in the central and southern
part of the Argentine Republic in South America. The term is sometimes used in a wider sense for the
plains extending from Bolivia to Southern Patagonia.
Pampas cat (Zoöl.),
a South American wild cat It has oblique transverse bands of yellow or brown. It
is about three and a half feet long. Called also straw cat. — Pampas deer (Zoöl.), a small, reddish-
brown, South American deer — Pampas grass (Bot.), a very tall ornamental grass (Gynerium argenteum)
with a silvery-white silky panicle. It is a native of the pampas of South America.
Pamper
(Pam"per) v. t. [imp. & p. p. Pampered ; p. pr. & vb. n. Pampering.] [Cf. LG. pampen,
slampampen, to live luxuriously, pampe thick pap, and E. pap.]
1. To feed to the full; to feed luxuriously; to glut; as, to pamper the body or the appetite. "A body . . .
pampered for corruption." Dr. T. Dwight.
2. To gratify inordinately; to indulge to excess; as, to pamper pride; to pamper the imagination. South.
Pampered
(Pam"pered) a. Fed luxuriously; indulged to the full; hence, luxuriant. "Pampered boughs."
Milton. "Pampered insolence." Pope. — Pam"pered*ness, n. Bp. Hall.
Pamperer
(Pam"per*er) n. One who, or that which, pampers. Cowper.