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A division; a distinct piece, limited part, or compartment of any surface; a patch; hence, a square of a checkered or plaided pattern.

Having panes; provided with panes; also, having openings; as, a paned window; paned window sash. "Paned hose." Massinger.

An oration or eulogy in praise of some person or achievement; a formal or elaborate encomium; a laudatory discourse; laudation. See Synonym of Eulogy.

Containing praise or eulogy; encomiastic; laudatory. "Panegyric strains." Pope. -- Pan`e*gyr"ic*al*ly, adv. Some of his odes are panegyrical. Dryden.

A festival; a public assembly. [Obs.] S. Harris.

One who delivers a panegyric; a eulogist; one who extols or praises, either by writing or speaking. If these panegyrists are in earnest. Burke.

To praise highly; to extol in a public speech; to write or deliver a panegyric upon; to eulogize.

A panegyric. [Obs.] Milton.

A sunken compartment with raised margins, molded or otherwise, as in ceilings, wainscotings, etc.

The act of impaneling a jury. [Obs.] [Written also panellation.] Wood.

Without panes. To patch his paneless window. Shenstone.

A forming in panels; panelwork. [Written also panelling.]

Wainscoting.

Eulogy of everything; indiscriminate praise. [R.] Her book has a trace of the cant of paneulogism. National Rev.

Enough to fill a pan.

A paroxysm of extreme pain or anguish; a sudden and transitory agony; a throe; as, the pangs of death.

An hypothesis advanced by Darwin in explanation of heredity.

Of or pertaining to pangenesis.

Full of pangs. Richardson.

Without a pang; painless. Byron.