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A paroxysm of extreme pain or anguish; a sudden and transitory agony; a throe; as, the pangs of death.

An hypothesis advanced by Darwin in explanation of heredity.

Of or pertaining to pangenesis.

Full of pangs. Richardson.

Without a pang; painless. Byron.

Any one of several species of Manis, Pholidotus, and related genera, found in Africa and Asia. They are covered with imbricated scales, and feed upon ants. Called also scaly ant-eater.

Of, pertaining to, or including, all the Gothic races. "Ancestral Pangothic stock." Earle.

To adorn with spangles; to dot or sprinkle with something brilliant or glittering. The grass . . . is all bespangled with dewdrops. Cowper.

To spangle. [Obs.]

Figuratively, any little thing that sparkless. "The rich spangles that adorn the sky." Waller. Oak spangle. See under Oak.

One who, or that which, spangles.

Resembling, or consisting of, spangles; glittering; as, spangly light.

Spangled or studded with stars. Star-spangled banner, the popular name for the national ensign of the United States. F. S. Key.

food in China; -- called also bêche de mer, sea cucumber, and sea slug. [Written also tripang.]

See Trepang.

ffocating contraction or tightening of the lower part of the chest; -- called also breast pang, spasm of the chest.

One of several species of edentates and monotremes that feed upon ants. See Ant-bear, Pangolin, Aard-vark, and Echidna.

A kind of glass, containing gold-colored spangles. It was produced in the first place by the accidental (par aventure) dropping of some brass filings into a pot of melted glass.

Any flag or standard; as, the star-spangled banner. Banner fish (Zoöl.), a large fish of the genus Histiophorus, of the Swordfish family, having a broad bannerlike dorsal fin; the sailfish. One species (H. Americanus) inhabits the North Atlantic.

The trepang.