Emily Dickinson Lexicon

PAN-E-GYR'IC, n. [Fr. panegyrique; It. and Sp. panegirico; L. panegyricus, from the Gr. πανηγυρις, a public meeting or celebration; πας, παν, all, and αρυγις, an assembly.]

1. An oration or eulogy in praise of some distinguished person or achievement; a formal or elaborate encomium. – Stillingfleet.
2. An encomium; praise bestowed on some eminent person, action or virtue. – Dryden.

PAN-E-GY'RIS, n.

A festival; a public meeting. – Milton.

PAN-E-GYR'IST, n.

One who bestows praise; an eulogist; an encomiast, either by writing or speaking. – Camden.

PAN'E-GY-RIZE, v.i.

To bestow praises. – Mitford.

PAN'E-GY-RIZE, v.t.

To praise highly; to write or pronounce an eulogy on. – Ch. Obs.

PAN'E-GY-RIZ-ED, pp.

Highly praised or eulogized.

PAN'E-GY-RIZ-ING, ppr.

Praising highly; eulogizing.

PAN'EL, n. [Fr. panneau; Sw. panna, pan; pannela, to wainscot; Russ. panel, ceiling or wainscot; probably names from breadth, extension.]

1. A square piece of board, or other piece somewhat similar inserted between other pieces; as, the panel of a door. – Addison. Swift.
2. A piece of parchment or schedule, containing the names of persons summoned by the sherif. Hence more generally,
3. The whole jury.

PAN'EL, v.t.

To form with panels; as, to panel a wainscot. – Pennant.

PAN'EL-ED, pp.

Formed with panels.

PANE'LESS, a.

Without panes of glass. – Shenstone.

PAN'EL-ING, ppr.

Forming into panels.

PANG, n. [D. pynigen, G. peinigen, to torture, from pyn, pein, pain; Sax. pinan. See Pain.]

Extreme pain; anguish; agony of body; particularly, sudden paroxysm of extreme pain, as in spasm, or childbirth. – Is. xxi. I saw the hoary traitor, / Grin in the pangs of death, and bite the ground. – Addison.

PANG, v.t.

To torture; to give extreme pain to. – Shak.

PAN'GO-LIN, n.

A name applied to two species of Manis, a genus of edentate mammals, the one inhabiting Bengal and the other central Africa. They are reptile-like, and their bodies are covered with hard scales or plated, and can be rolled into a spherical shape.

PAN-HELL-LE'NI-UM, n. [Gr. πανελληνιον.]

The national council or congress of Greece. – Anderson.

PAN'IC, a.

Extreme or sudden; applied to fright; as, panic fear.

PAN'IC, n.¹ [Sp. and It. panico; Fr. panique; Gr. πανικος; W. pannu; to cause to sink, to depress or hollow, to cause a panic. The primary sense is intransitive, to shrink, or transitive, to cause to shrink; hence the fabled Pan, the frightful deity of the woods or shepherds.]

A sudden fright; particularly, a sudden fright without real cause, or terror inspired by a trifling cause or misapprehension of danger; as, the troops were seized with a panic; they fled in a panic.

PAN'IC, n.² [L. panicum.]

A plant and its grain, of the genus Panicum. The grain or seed is like millet, and it is cultivated in some parts of Europe for bread.

PAN'IC-GRASS, n.

A plant of the genus Panicum.

PAN'I-CLE, n. [L. panicula, down upon reeds, cat's tail, allied to L. pannus, cloth; W. pân, nap, down, the fulling of cloth; panu, to cover with nap, to full or mill cloth, to beat, to bang. The primary sense is to drive, strike or press, hence to full or make thick.]

In botany, a species of inflorescence, in which the flowers or fruits are scattered on peduncles variously subdivided, as in oats and some of the grasses. The panicle is of various kinds, as the dense or close, the spiked, the squeezed, the spreading, the diffused, the divaricating. – Martyn.

PAN'I-CLED, a.

Furnished with panicles. – Eaton.

PAN'IC-STRUCK, a.

Struck with a panic, or sudden fear.

PA-NIC'U-LATE, or PA-NIC'U-LA-TED, a.

1. Having branches variously subdivided; as, a paniculate stem.
2. Having the flowers in panicles; as, a paniculate inflorescence. – Lee.

PA-NIV'O-ROUS, a. [L. panis and voro.]

Eating bread; subsisting on bread.