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rying or baking food, etc.; also employed for various uses in manufacturing. "A bowl or a pan." Chaucer.

Combining forms signifying all, every; as, panorama, pantheism, pantagraph, pantograph. Pan- becomes pam- before b or p, as pamprodactylous.

Of or pertaining to both North and South America.

One held in 1889-90 in the United States, at which all the independent states except Santo Domingo were represented and of which the practical result was the establishment of the Bureau of American Republics for the promotion of trade relations.

The principle or advocacy of a political alliance or union of all the states of America.

d less strictly, to include the Protestant Episcopal Church of the United States; as, the Pan-Anglican Conference at Lambeth, in 1888.

Same as Tetrahedrite.

A remedy for all diseases; a universal medicine; a cure-all; catholicon; hence, a relief or solace for affliction.

Having the properties of a panacea. [R.] "Panacean dews." Whitehead.

. such a bunch worn on the helmet; any military plume, or ornamental group of feathers. A panache of variegated plumes. Prescott.

read boiled in water to the consistence of pulp, and sweetened or flavored. [Written also panado.]

A dagger. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A fine plaited hat, made in Central America of the young leaves of a plant (Carludovica palmata).

Of or pert. to Panama. -- n.

Of or pertaining to bread or to breadmaking.

The most ancient and important festival of Athens, celebrated in honor of Athena, the tutelary goddess of the city.

A thin cake of batter fried in a pan or on a griddle; a griddlecake; a flapjack. "A pancake for Shrove Tuesday." Shak.

A royal charter confirming to a subject all his possessions. [Obs.] Holinshed.

The pansy. [Also paunce.]

See Paunch.