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To hold possession; to be an occupant. "Occupy till I come." Luke xix. 13.

which the domestics discharge the duties attached to the service of a house, as kitchens, pantries, stables, etc. [Eng.] As for the offices, let them stand at distance. Bacon.

A pantograph. [R.]

The panther, or puma. [A form representing an illiterate pronunciation, U. S.] J. F. Cooper.

A leopard; a panther. And more pinch-spotted make them Than pard or cat o'mountain. Shak.

way of burlesque; travesty. The lively parody which he wrote . . . on Dryden's "Hind and Panther" was received with great applause. Macaulay.

Pantographic. See Pantograph.

See Pantile.

or presuming; saucy; bold; impertinent. "A very pert manner." Addison. The squirrel, flippant, pert, and full of play. Cowper.

nd, commonly the part behind the stalls; in the United States, the parquet; also, the occupants of such a part of a theater.

ithout spots or stripes. Called also catamount, cougar, American lion, mountain lion, and panther or painter.

in which the body is small and thin, and the eight legs usually very long; -- called also Pantopoda.

To spring; to leap; to bound; to rear; to prance; to become rampant; hence, to frolic; to romp.

Characterized by violence and passion; unruly; rampant. [Prov. or Low] In the primitive ages of a rampageous antiquity. Galt.

The quality or state of being rampant; excessive action or development; exuberance; extravagance. "They are come to this height and rampancy of vice." South.

The owner and occupant of a ranch or rancho.

An owner or occupant of, or laborer on, a ranch; a herdsman. [Western U. S.]

A dilapidated building with many rooms and occupants; a cluster of dilapidated or mean buildings.

A round building; especially, one that is round both on the outside and inside, like the Pantheon at Rome. Less properly, but very commonly, used for a large round room; as, the rotunda of the Capitol at Washington.

rejected breeches as an emblem peculiar to the upper classes or aristocracy, and adopted pantaloons.