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A pandemic disease. Harvey.

The great hall or council chamber of demons or evil spirits. Milton.

A male bawd; a pimp; a procurer. Thou art the pander to her dishonor. Shak.

The act of pandering.

The employment, arts, or practices of a pander. Bp. Hall.

Having the quality of a pander. "O, you panderly rascals." Shak.

A hydrous borate of lime, near priceite.

, Of or relating to a pander; characterizing a pander.

Extended; spread out; stretched.

A stretching and stiffening of the trunk and extremities, as when fatigued and drowsy.

See Pundit.

Same as Pandour.

o punish the human race, because Prometheus had stolen the fire from heaven. Jupiter gave Pandora a box containing all human ills, which, when the box was opened, escaped and spread over the earth. Hope alone remained in the box. Another version makes the box contain all the blessings of the gods, which were lost to me…

An ancient musical instrument, of the lute kind; a bandore. [Written also pandoran.]

One of a class of Hungarian mountaineers serving in the Austrian army; -- so called from Pandur, a principal town in the region from which they originally came. [Written also pandoor.] Her whiskered pandours and her fierce hussars. Campbell.

A deep pie or pudding made of baked apples, or of sliced bread and apples baked together, with no bottom crust.

Obovate, with a concavity in each side, like the body of a violin; fiddle-shaped; as, a panduriform leaf; panduriform color markings of an animal.

pace; hence, one side or face of a building; as, an octagonal tower is said to have eight panes.

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.