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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.

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 men…

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.

The handle of a pan; hence, fig., any arm or projection suggestive of the handle of a pan; as, the panhandle of West Virginia, Texas, or Idaho.

West Virginia; -- a nickname.

An instrument to avert the occurrence of hailstorms. See Paragr. Knight.

Two or more metals coined without any attempt by the government to regulate their values.

Speaking; in a speaking or declamatory manner; to be sung or played in the style of a recitative.

A Linnæan class of plants having five separate stamens.