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A plant of the genus Panicum; panic grass; also, the edible grain of some species of panic grass. Panic grass (Bot.), any grass of the genus Panicum.

Struck with a panic, or sudden fear. Burke.

See Panic, a. [Obs.] Camden.

A pyramidal form of inflorescence, in which the cluster is loosely branched below and gradually simpler toward the end.

Furnished with panicles; arranged in, or like, panicles; paniculate.

Same as Panicled.

A genus of grasses, including several hundred species, some of which are valuable; panic grass.

The American flying squirrel (Pteromys volucella).

Of or pertaining to Spain or its language; as, Hispanic words.

A Spanish idiom or mode of speech. Keightley.

To give a Spanish form or character to; as, to Hispanicize Latin words.

Situated behind the tympanum, or in the skull, behind the auditory meatus.

Like a tympanum or drum; acting like a drumhead; as, a tympanic membrane.

Auditory canal (Anat.), the tube from the auditory meatus or opening of the ear to the tympanic membrane.

art of a boiler, containing the flues. -- Barrel of the ear (Anat.), the tympanum, or tympanic cavity. -- Barrel organ, an instrument for producing music by the action of a revolving cylinder. -- Barrel vault. See under Vault.

e news of the landing of the Pretender reached London, or May 11, 1866, when a financial panic commenced. In the United States, September 24, 1869, and September 18, 1873, on which financial panics began.

An implement for sweeping floors, etc., commonly made of the panicles or tops of broom corn, bound together or attached to a long wooden handle; -- so called because originally made of the twigs of the broom. Butcher's broom, a plant (Ruscus aculeatus) of the Smilax family, used by butchers for brooms to sweep their bl…

d stem, like maize, rising to the height of eight or ten feet, and bearing its seeds on a panicle with long branches, of which brooms are made.

e ovoid prominence below the opening of the ear in the skulls of many animals; as, the tympanic or auditory bulla.

f many lizards; the columella of the ear, the bony or cartilaginous rod connecting the tympanic membrane with the internal ear.