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A female panther.

Like a panther, esp. in color; as, the pantherine snake (Ptyas mucosus) of Brazil.

A roofing tile, of peculiar form, having a transverse section resembling an elongated S laid on its side (

With palpitation or rapid breathing. Shak.

A Utopian community, in which all should rule equally, such as was devised by Coleridge, Lovell, and Southey, in their younger days.

A pantisocratist.

Of or pertaining to a pantisocracy.

One who favors or supports the theory of a pantisocracy. Macaulay.

The servant or officer, in a great family, who has charge of the bread and the pantry. [Obs.] Shak.

See Pan-.

An instrument combining a compass, sundial, and universal time dial. Brande & C.

A slipper for the foot. [Written also pantable and pantoble.]

ps, and other drawings, on the same, or on a reduced or an enlarged, scale. [Written also pantagraph, and incorrectly pentagraph.] Skew pantograph, a kind of pantograph for drawing a copy which is inclined with respect to the original figure; -- also called plagiograph.

Of or pertaining to a pantograph; relating to pantography.

A general description; entire view of an object.

Of or pertaining to pantology.

One versed in pantology; a writer of pantology.

A systematic view of all branches of human knowledge; a work of universal information.

An instrument for measuring angles for determining elevations, distances, etc.

Universal measurement. [R.] -- Pan`to*met"ric, a. [R.]