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Of or pert. to Panama. -- n.

Of or pertaining to bread or to breadmaking.

The most ancient and important festival of Athens, celebrated in honor of Athena, the tutelary goddess of the city.

Anæsthesia of both sides of the lower half of the body.

Anthracene; -- called also paranaphthaline. [Obs.]

A division of marsupials, including the opossums.

Permanent; durable. [Obs.] Lydgate.

A salt of permanganic acid. Potassium permanganate. (Chem.) See Potassium permanganate, under Potassium.

A salt of persulphocyanic acid. [R.]

t of the city, became the chief Greek quarter; hence, the Greek officials of Turkey, or phanariots, as a class.

One of the Greeks of Constantinople who after the Turkish conquest became powerful in clerical and other offices under Turkish patronage.

Any species of turbellarian worms belonging to Planaria, and many allied genera. The body is usually flat, thin, and smooth. Some species, in warm countries, are terrestrial.

One of the Planarida, or Dendrocoela; any turbellarian worm. -- Pla*na"ri*an, a.

A division of Turbellaria; the Dendrocoela.

Like the planarians.

Of or pertaining to a plane. [R.]

A prickly tropical shrub (Cæsalpinia, formerly Poinciana, pulcherrima), with bipinnate leaves, and racemes of showy orange-red flowers with long crimson filaments.

The fruit of the tree Punica Granatum; also, the tree itself (see Balaustine), which is native in the Orient, but is successfully cultivated in many warm countries, and as a house plant in colder climates. The fruit is as large as an orange, and has a hard rind containing many rather large seeds, each one separately co…

Situated behind, or posterior to, the anus.

Volcanic ashes from Pozzuoli, in Italy, used in the manufacture of a kind of mortar which hardens under water.