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A Bengalese four-oared boat for passengers. [Written also panshway and paunchwas.] Malcom.

Pancratic; athletic.

One who engaged in the contests of the pancratium.

Of or pertaining to the pancratium. G. West.

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.

Of or pertaining to the pancratium; athletic. Sir T. Browne

An athlete; a gymnast.

An athletic contest involving both boxing and wrestling.

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.

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 amy…

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.

See Pansy. [Obs.] Dryden.

A small Asiatic mammal (Ailurus fulgens) having fine soft fur. It is related to the bears, and inhabits the mountains of Northern India.

A genus of endogenous plants. See Screw pine.

Same as Pander. "Seized by the pandar of Appius." Macaulay.

Same as Panderism. Swift.

To pander. [Obs.]

Panderous. [Obs.]

Of or relating to the god Pan. Pandean pipes, a primitive wind instrument, consisting of a series of short hollow reeds or pipes, graduated in length by the musical scale, and fastened together side by side; a syrinx; a mouth organ; -- said to have been invented by Pan. Called also Pan's pipes and Panpipes.…

A treatise which comprehends the whole of any science. [Thou] a pandect mak'st, and universal book. Donne.