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ally of metal and especially of Indian maim- pandemoniac, pandsemoniac (pan-de-mo'iii- 
facture. Compare spier-bus. ak), a. [<. pandemonium + -Hc(a,tterdrioni<tr).] 
Of or pertaining to pandemonium; character- 
[NL. 
Same 
Pandanaceae (pan-da-na'sf-e), n. pi. 
(Liiidley, 1835), < Pandanug + -acese.] 
as Ponu&MtBt 
Pandanese (pan-da'ne-e), n.pl. [NL. (R. Brown, 
1810), < randan itn + -gee.] The screw-pine fam- 
ily, an order of monocotyledonous shrubs and 
trees, belonging to the series Nudifloree, and dis- 
tinguished by the clustered or panicled spa- 
dices. There are about 83 species, of 2 genera, Pan- 
danus and Freycinetia, natives of the tropics of the Old 
World and Oceania. They bear very long and attenuate 
rigid leaves, set in three close-twisted spirals, with spiny 
margins and keel, and often with recurved thorns. The 
small sessile many-bracted dio3Cious flowers are destitute 
of floral envelops and contain numerous stamens, or a 
single ovary of one carpel followed by a large roundish 
multiple fruit of many carpels united in spiral rows, pulpy 
within, and with a fleshy or woody surface. 
istic of pandemonium. 
pandemonium, pandemonium (pan-de-mo'ni- 
um), H. [= F. ptiiHlcitiinnutn = Sp. pfttidcmoiiio 
= Pg. pandemonium, < NL. Pandsemonium (Mil- 
ton), < Gr. Traf (TTOV-), all, + 6ai/iuv, a demon: 
see demon."] 1. The abode of all the demons 
or evil spirits ; hell : a name invented and used 
by Milton rather as a proper name than a gen- 
eral term. 
Pandsemonium, the high capital 
Of Satan and his peers. Milton, f, L., t 766. 
Hence 2. Any lawless, disorderly, and noisy 
place or assemblage. 3. A loud noise, as from 
pandemonium. 
Suddenly a regular pandemonium of shrieks, and direct- 
ly the scurrying by of a number of the sable birds. 
Amer. Nat., XXIII. 20. 
carene, and Seychelles islands, with a few on the Austra- 
Pandanus (pan-da'nus), u. [NL., < Malay^nw- 
dang, conspicuous.] The screw-pine, a genus of pander (pan'der), n. [Also written pandar, for- 
plants, type of the order Pandanem, distinguish- mer ly also pandor; < ME. Pandare, Pandarus, 
ed by its one-ovuled carpels. It includes about 60 name of the man who, according to Boccaccio's 
species, all tropieal, natives especially of the Malayan, Mas- poem Filos t ra to" and Chaucer's paraphrase 
and expansion of it, "Troilus and Criseyde," 
and Shakspere's play "Troilus and Cressida," 
procured for Troilus the love and good graces 
of Cressida (in Chaucer Criseyde). The name 
appears in the fabulous histories of Dictys Cre- 
tensis and Dares Phrygius as that of a soldier. 
No such person is mentioned in ancient litera- 
ture ; but Homer and Virgil mention a Pandarus 
(Gr. IldwSapof ) who was a leader of the Lycians, 
auxiliary to the Trojans ; and Virgil mentions 
another Pandarus, a son of Alcanor, compan- 
ion of ^Eneas.] 1. One who caters for the lusts 
of others ; a male bawd ; a pimp or procurer. 
If you ever prove false to one another, since I have 
taken such pains to bring you together, let all pitiful 
goers-between be called to the world's end after my name ; 
call them all Pandars; let all constant men beTroiluses, 
all false women Cressids, and all brokers-between Pan- 
dars! Shot., T. and C., III. 2. 210. 
Flower and Fruit of Pandanus oftoratissi, 
lian, African, and Asiatic continents. They are usually 
erect, with robust or slender trunk, unbranched or with 
upwardly curved candelabrum-like branches, which pro- 
duce strong aerial roots. The roundish fruit is often pen- 
dulous and sheathed with colored bracts. See screw-pine, 
chandelier-tree, keora-oU, and tent-tree. 
pandar. pandaress, etc. See pander, etc. 
^jiij.vi.n/i , jjcuincii ODD, f u^. K_>c*2 jvwnwn . cnj. . ( -.. i ^. t ** * * 
pandatlon(pan-da'shon),. [< ~L.pandqtio(n-), Hence 2. One who ministers to the gratifica- 
a warping, <.pandare, bend, bow, curve, warp.] 
A yielding, bending, or warping: sometimes 
used with reference to architectural members 
or construction. 
Pandean (pan'de-an), . and n. [Irreg. < L. Pan, pander (pan'der), v 
< Gr. Uav, Pan:'see Pan 3 . No L. or Gr. form n."] I. intrans. 1. 
supporting Pandean occurs.] Of or pertaining 
to Pan. Also spelled Pandsean Pandean pipes. 
Same as Pan's pipes (which see, under pipe^). 
He looked abroad into the street ; all there was dusk 
and lonely; the rain falling heavily, the wind playing 
Pandean pipes and whistling down the chimney-pots. 
Thackeray, Shabby Genteel Story, iv. 
II, n. A traveling musician who plays on 
Pan's pipes. 
pandect (pan'dekt), n. [Usually in plural pan- 
dects, < F. pandectes = Sp. Pg. pandectas = It. 
tion of any of the baser passions of others. 
What goodly Body's spruce hypocrisy 
Should to his filthy mind the Pander be. 
J. Beaumont, Psyche, L 49. 
[Also pandar ; < pander, 
To cater for the lusts of 
others. 2. To minister to others' passions or 
prejudices for selfish ends. 
This most mild, though withal dreadful and inviolable 
prerogative of Christ's diadem [excommunication] serves 
for nothing with them but to prog and pander for fees. 
Milton, Reformation in Eng., ii. 
He had, during many years, earned his daily bread by 
pandering to the vicious taste of the pit. Macautay. 
II. trans. To cater for the gratification of the 
lusts or passions of; pimp .for. 
__ Reason pandars will Shak., Hamlet, iii. 4. 88. 
, < L. pandeetfe, pi. of pandecta, also panderage (pan'der-aj), n. [< pander + -a</e.l 
pandeetes,< Gr. iravdticrtK, all-receiving, all-con- The act of pandering. Imp. Diet. 
taining; pi. iravieia-ai, a name for a general uni- panderess (pau'der-es), n. [Also pandaress, 
versal dictionary or encyclopedia, later also pandress; < pander + -ess.'] A female pander ; 
the Pandects of Justinian ; < vrdf (nav-), all, + a procuress. 
fe X taSai, receive.] 1. A digest or comprehen- panderism(pan'der-izm),w. [Also pandarism; 
sive treatise; a treatise containing the whole < pander + -ism.'] The character or occupation 
of a pander. 
of any science. 
Therefore, by Faith's pure rayes illumined. 
These sacred Pandects I desire to read. 
Sylvester, tr. of Du Bartas's Weeks, i. 1. 
Thus thou, by means which th' ancients never took, 
A pandect mak'st, and universal book. 
But that I must consider such as spaniels 
To those who feed and clothe them, I would print 
Thy panderism upon thy forehead. 
Ford, Lady's Trial, i. 3. 
panderize (pan'der-5z), v. i.; pret. and pp. pan- 
Donne, On Coryat s Crudities, derived, ppr. panderizing. [Also pandarize; < 
Specifically 2. pi. [cap.] A collection of Ro- 
man civil law made by the emperor Justinian 
in the sixth century, containing decisions or 
judgments of lawyers, to which the emperor 
gave the force and authority of law. This com- panderly (pan'der-li), a. [Also pandarly; < 
pander + -ize.] To act the part of a pander. 
Your father shall not say I pandarizde, 
Or fondly winkt at your affection. 
Marston, The Fawne, iii. 
pander + -ly l .~\ Pimping; panderous; acting 
the pander. 
you pandarly rascals ! Shak., M. W. of W., iv. 2. 122. 
, ...j most important of the body of Roman civil 
law, consists of fifty books. Also called the Digest. 
pandemia (pan-de'mi-a), n. [NL., < Gr. 7r<zi>*7- 
fuof, belonging to all the people, < traf (TTOV-), 
all, + (%/oc, a district, the people of a district : 
see demeZ.~\ A disease which affects the peo- vr i ce it e 
pie of a whole country generally ; a very wide- ",j.. / <JA \ 
spread epidemic panaerous (pan der-us), a. [Also pandarous; 
pandemic (pan-d'em'ik), a. and n. [= F. pan- < gSSf + ~ t ' ms ^ 9 f or P erta n g to > or char - 
demique = Pg. It. pandemico, < L. as if "pan- acterlstlc of ' a P ander or pandensm. 
demicus, < LL. pandemus, < Gr. vdvSnuoc, public, \ T.i! 161 ' once before ( 1 ve ^SUS* 8 ' tls) ' 
belonging to ffi whole people, < rfJ&K all! #J tnenTsto^a W" dUlge " Ce 
T o^of, people, country: see deme2.~] I. a. Middleton, Tlie Witch, iii. 2. 
Incident to a whole people; epidemic: as, a pandiculated (pan-dik'u-la-ted), a. [< L. nan- 
pandemic disease. diculatm, pp. of pandiculari, stretch oneself , < 
Those instances bring a consumption, under the notion pandere, spread out.] Stretched out; extended 
of a pandemwlt or endemick, or rather vernacular disease Asli 
t ' gla Harvey, Consumptions. pan diculation(pan-dik-ii-la'shon),. [=F.pan- 
H. n. A pandemic disease. dictation = Sp. pandi<Mlacion"= Pg. pandicu- 
. Pandoridae 
o, < L. pandicnlnri, pp. pandieulatus, stretch 
oneself out: see pa ndiculated.] A stretching 
of one's self, as when one is newly awaked 
from sleep, or sleepy or fatigued; a restless- 
ness and inclination to stretch observed at the 
outset of certain paroxysms of fever, hysteria, 
etc. : sometimes, somewhat incorrectly, used 
in the sense of 'yawning.' 
In the next edition of my opium confessions, ... by 
mere dint of pandiculation, I will terrify all readers of 
mine from ever again questioning any postulate that I 
shall think fit to make. De Quincey, Confessions. 
Pandinidae (pan-din'i-de), n.pl. [NL. (Thorell, 
1876), < Pandinus (the typical genus) + -idee.} 
A family of scorpions, containing the largest 
forms known, and well represented in the 
United States. The sternum is pentagonal and longer 
than broad, the immovable mandibular finger is desti- 
tute of teeth, and the hands are large and flattened, and 
generally broader than long. 
Pandion (paii-di'on), n. [NL., < L. Pandion, < 
Gr. llavSiuv, in legend the father of Procne, 
who was changed into a swallow.] The only 
genus of Pandionidee, founded by Jules C6sar 
Savigny in 1809; the ospreys or fishing-hawks. 
See cut under osprey. 
Pandionidae (pan-di-on'i-de), . pi. [NL., < 
Pandion + -idee.] A family of Jtaptores, repre- 
sented by the genus Pandion; the ospreys. The 
plumage is peculiar in lacking aftershafts, being compact 
and closely imbricated, and oily ; the legs are closely fea- 
thered, having no flag ; the head is closely feathered to the 
eyes ; there is a slight occipital crest ; the remiges and 
rectrices are hard, stiff, and acuminate ; the wings are long 
and pointed ; the tail is moderate ; the feet are immense- 
ly large, strong, and scabrous, with rough reticulations ; 
the toes are cleft to the base, and the outer one is versatile ; 
the talons are large, of equal lengths, tapering and terete, 
not scooped out underneath ; the bill is toothless with a 
large hook ; the nostrils are oval, oblique, non-tuberculate, 
and situated in the edge of the cere. There is no supra- 
ciliary shield, leaving the eyes flush with the side of the 
head. The relationships of the family are with the bliz- 
zards and eagles, the external modifications being all in 
adaptation to aquatic and piscivorous habits. 
pandionine (pan-di'o-nin), a. [< Pandion + 
-ine 8 .] Of or pertaining to the genus Pandion, 
or any of the groups which that genus is con- 
sidered to represent. 
pandit, . Same as pundit. 
pandle(pan'dl),n. [Origin obscure.] Ashrimp. 
[Prov. Eng.] 
pandle-whew (pan'dl-hwu), n. The whewer 
or widgeon, Mareca penelope : so called from its 
fondness for shrimps. [Norfolk, Eng.] 
pandoor ' (pan'dor), n. [Alsopandour, < F. pan- 
dour, pandoure ; origin uncertain ; perhaps so 
called from having been levied first near the 
village of Pandur, in Hungary.] 1. Formerly, 
a member of a body of Austrian infantry levied 
in southern Hungary, dreaded for their savage 
mode of warfare; hence, a robber or violent 
marauder. 
When leagued Oppression pour'd to Northern wars 
Her whisker d pandoors and her fierce hussars. 
Campbell, Pleasures of Hope, 1. 862. 
2. An armed servant of the nobility in Croatia 
and Slavonia. 
pandoor 2 , n. Same as pandore?. 
pandort, . An obsolete spelling of pander. 
Pandora 1 (pan-do'ra), n. [L., < Gr. HavMpa, lit. 
the all-endowed, < TTOC (JTOV-), all, + 6&pov, gift.] 
1. In class, myth., the name of the first mortal 
woman, on whom all the gods and goddesses 
bestowed gifts. 2. In zool., a name (mostly 
generic) variously 
used, (a) In conch. : 
(1) The typical genus 
ot Pandorida. (2)[l.c.] 
A bivalve of this ge- 
nus. (6) In acalephs, a 
genus of beroid cteno- 
phorans. Eschscholtz, 
1829. (c) In entom,: 
(1) A genus of dipte- 
rous insects. (2) A 
genUS Of coleopterous Pandora rostrata. 
insects. Chevrolat, 
1843. (d) [1. c.] A fish, Pagellus erythrimts, of the family 
Sparida. Pandora's box, a box which Pandora was 
fabled to have brought from heaven, containing all human 
ills. She opened it, and all escaped and spread over the 
earth. At a later period it was believed that the box con- 
tained all the blessings of the gods, which would have been 
preserved for the human race had not Pandora opened it, 
so that the blessings, with the exception of hope, escaped. 
pandora 2 , n. A variant of bandora for bandore 1 . 
pandore 1 (pan-dor'), n. Same as bandore 1 . 
pandore 2 (pan'dor), . [Also pandoor ; origin 
obscure.] An oyster of a large variety found 
near Prestonpans on the Firth of Forth, much 
esteemed in England. Stormontn. 
Pandoridae (pan-dor'i-de), n. pi. [NL., < Pan- 
dora + -idie.'] A family of bivalve mollusks, 
the type of which is the genus Pandora. The 
