pangenetic 
pangenetic (pan-je-net'ik), a. [< NL. /HIH.I, n> 
MX, after </<;/< lit:] ' Of or pertaining to pangen- 
pangeometry (pan-je-om'et-rij, n. [< <ir. -n<- 
(TTCII'-), all, + K. geometry.] That geometry 
which results from an extension of the proper- 
ties of ordinary space, especially non-Euclidean 
geometry. 
pangfuld'iiiifj'ful), a. [< pang* + -ftil.] Full 
of pan^s; tortured; suffering. 
Overwhelmed with grief and Infirmity, he bowed his 
lirail upon his ptlnuj'iil bosom. 
JlichanlHiin, Clarissa Unrlowe, VII. 224. (Davici.) 
pangless (pat'g'les), a. [< pang 1 + -lens.] Free 
from pang or pain. 
Death for thee 
Prepared a light and panylem dart. 
Byron, To Thyrs*. 
pangolin (paug'go-lin),M. [Malay.] 1. A scaly 
ant-eater; a phatagin; any edentate quadru- 
Long-tailed Pangolin (Mam's 
ped of the genus Manis or the family Munidie 
(which see). Also pangaling, pengolin. 2. 
leap.] [NL.] A genus of pangolins. J.E.Gray. 
Also Pun noli mis (Kafinesque).iong-taAleA pan- 
golin, Manis longicauda. 
pangoniet, [< OF. pangonie = Sp. It. pan- 
r/ouid, < L. pangonius, pangonus, < Or. *iray- 
ywviof, some precious stone, < TTOC (TOP-), all, + 
yuvia, angle.] Some precious stone. Minsneu. 
pangrammatist (pan-gram'a-tist), n. [< Gr. 
jrof (miK-), all, + y/w/i/i<moT#f', one who teaches 
letters: see grammatist.] One who occupies 
himself with framing sentences containing 
every letter of the alphabet. An example of such 
sentences is. "John P. Brady, give me a black-walnut box 
of quite a small size." 
panguet, . An obsolete spelling of pang 1 . 
panhandle (pan'han'dl), n. The handle of a 
pan ; hence, a long narrow strip projecting like 
the handle of a frying-pan. Specifically tip-l, In 
the United States, a long narrow strip projecting from the 
State or Territory of which it forms a part, and interposed 
between two other States or Territories : as, the Panhandle 
of Idaho; the Panhandle ol West Virginia, projecting north- 
ward between Pennsylvania and Ohio. 
panharmonicon (pan-har-mon'i-kon), n. [NL., 
< Gr. jro (irov-), all,+ appovinfa;, harmonic, musi- 
cal: see harmonic.] A mechanical musical in- 
strument of the orchestrion class, invented by 
J. N. Maelzel in 1800. Also called Orpheus-har- 
monica. 
Panhellenic (pan-he-len'ik), a. [= F.panhel- 
lenique (cf. Gr. naveM.ffi>iof, of all the Greeks, 
neut. naveMfyvtov, the whole Greek people), < 
Gr. naiteZfa/vef, all the Greeks, < iris ("'<"'-), all, 
-I- "E/UvvEf, Greeks, Hellenes : see Hellene, Hel- 
lenic.'] Pertaining to or concerning all Hel- 
las, or all persons, interests, achievements, etc., 
belonging or pertaining to the Greek race : as, 
the Panhellenic festival or games at Olympia. 
Panhellenion, Panhellenium (pan-he-le'ni- 
on, -um), .; pi. Panheltenia (-&). [NL., < Gr. 
vu>v, the 
he whole Greek people, neut. of 
f, of all the Greeks: see Panhellenic.'] 
A council or congress or a building or temple 
representing, or interesting in common, all 
Greece or all the Greeks. 
Panhellenism (pan-hel'en-izm), n. [=F.j>an- 
lu'lli'-iiixnie; as Panhcllen(ic) + -ism.'] 1. The 
desire or effort to unite all Greeks into one 
political body : an idea which in the third cen- 
tury B. c. was put into partial and incomplete 
realization in the Achean League, and in mod- 
ern times was pursued at the beginning of the 
present century by the Greeks and their sympa- 
thizers in Europe and America, and is still the 
cherished hope of modern Greek statesmen. 
2. The general body of interests and ideas hav. 
ing to do with all persons and things of Greek 
origin. 
Panhellenist (pan-hel'en-ist), n. [< Pa>ihellen- 
(ic) + -int.'] One who favors Panhellenism, or 
is affected in any way by Panhellenism, in 
either of its senses. 
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Panhellenium, w. See 1'anhi-Hfnum. 
panhistophyton (pan-liis-tof'i-tou), . [NL. 
so called as being found in all the tissues of the 
silkworm; < Gr. rraf (ftav-), all, + iarAf, web, 
tissue (see hixtoid), + C/VTOV, plant.] A name 
used I>y Lebert to denote one of those bacteria- 
like organisms which, according to Pasteur's 
experiments, accompany and possibly cause 
the destructive disease in the silkworm of com- 
merce, Scricaria mart, known as pebrine. They 
are small ellipsoid or somewhat elongated bodies, which 
may penetrate through all parts of the caterpillar and the 
butterfly, where they multiply with great rapidity. 
panic 1 (pan'ik), n. [Formerly alsopanicA-, />- 
i/.y; < Mlv pnnik, (. AS. panic = OLG. penik = 
HHQ.phciitfh, jifrnich, venich, rench = F. paiiir 
= It. panico, < L. panicum, also panicium ( > Sp. 
linni~o=Pg.pamco,panifo= It. panicio), panic, 
panic-grass, (pants, oread: see;>an a .] Agrass 
of the genus Panicum. 
Panyk and mylde in hoote and drle is sowe 
As nowe. Light, resolute lande thai desire. 
Palladia*, Husbondrie (E. E. T. S.X p. 106. 
Betwixt Turin and Slan I saw a strange kind of come 
that I never saw before ; but I have read of It It Is called 
Panicke. Coryat, Crudities, I. 102. 
panic 2 (pan'ik), a. and n. [Formerly also pan- 
ich,panique, pannique ; < F.paniquc = Sp.panieo 
= Pg. It. panico, panic, a panic, < Or. IIo- 
vi/a5f, belonging to Pan, neut. ro iravuiov (with 
or without Aet/ia, fear), panic fear (L. lympha- 
ticus pavor : see lymphatic 2 ), sudden or ground- 
less fear, such as is caused by sounds heard 
at night in lonely places, supposed to be in- 
spired by Pan, < Ildv, Pan: see Pan 3 .] I. a. 1. 
{.cap.] Of or pertaining to the god Pan: as, 
Bacchic and / J aic figures. 2. Inspired or as 
if inspired by Pan : applied to extreme or sud- 
den fright: as, panic fear. 
These are panic terrors 
You fashion to yourself. 
Fletcher (and another'!), Prophetess, v. 1. 
He had also the power of striking terrors, especially such 
as were vain and superstitious : whence they came to be 
called panic terrors. Bacon, Fable of Pan. 
II. n. 1. A sudden fright, particularly a sud- 
den aud exaggerated fright affecting a number 
of persons at once; terror without visible or ap- 
preciable cause, or inspired by a trifling cause 
or by misapprehension of danger. 
Many of the Moors, In their panic, flung themselves from 
the bridge, and perished In the Uuadayra ; others were 
cut down and trampled under the hoofs of friends and 
foes. Irving, Moorish Chronicles, xviit. 
Panic is an outburst of terror affecting a multitude In 
common, and rendered more furious by sympathy or In- 
fection. A. Bain, Emotions and Will, p. 61. 
Specifically 2. An exaggerated alarm which 
takes possession of a trading community on 
the occurrence of a financial crisis, such as may 
be caused by the failure of an important bank, 
or the exposure of a great commercial swindle, 
inducing a general feeling of distrust, and im- 
pelling to hasty and violent measures to secure 
immunity from possible loss, thus often pre- 
cipitating a general financial disaster which 
was at first only feared. =8yn. L Apprehension, 
Fright, etc. See alarm. 
panicalt (pan'i-kal), a. [<panic% + -al.] Same 
as panit't. 
pan-ice (pan' is), . Ice formed along the shore, 
and subsequently loosened and driven by winds 
and currents : used only in the vicinity of the 
Gulf of St. Lawrence. 
The gradual rise of the land [in i*brador] for a second 
time brings the successively rising surfaces under the In- 
fluence not only of pan-ice, but of snow-drifts acting in 
the manner described. 
B. Y. Bind, In Can. Naturalist, N. S., Vin. 277. 
Paniceae (pa-nis'e-e), n. pi. [NL., < Panicum 
+ -#.] A' tribe of grasses characterized by 
spikelet s containing but one complete flower, 
by the awnless flowering glume and hardened 
fruit-bearing one, and by pedicels jointed to 
the spikelet, but not to the rachis. it includes 
22 genera, of which Panicum is the type, and Patpalum, 
Sftaria, Cenchna, and Pcnnitetum are among the more 
important. 
panic-grass (pan'ik-gras), n. Same as panic 1 . 
panicky (pan ik-i), a. [< panic (panick) + -y 1 .] 
Pinkie. 
Branch with the Paniculate 
Inflorescence of Lagerilranttia 
BE! 
[< panicle + -etft.] 
Panionic 
panicle (pan'i-kl), n. [= F. puniriilf = Sp. 
/iiniii-iili}, /innojii = I'g. piniirulii = It. piiiiiriiln, 
< L. j/inni-iilii, a tuft on plants, a panicle, dim. 
of paint.*, thread wound 
upon the bobbin in a 
shuttle: see pune^,] A 
form of inflorescence 
produced, in its simple 
and normal type, when a 
raceme becomes irregu- 
larly compound by some 
of the pedicels develop 
ing into peduncles, eacli 
bearing several flower*. 
or branching again ana 
again in the same order. 
In the compound clusters thus 
produced, the secondary and 
tertiary ramifications usually 
differ In type, giving rise to 
a mixed Inflorescence; hence 
the term panicle, as generally 
employed In botanical descrip- 
tions, signifies any loose and 
diversely branched cluster In 
which the flowers are pedicel- 
late. See also cut* under vJrf/K- 
mia, inftoretcence, melic-gran, 
oat, and Ogmunda. 
panicled (pan'i-kldj, a. _ . 
Furnished with panicles; arranged in or like 
panicles, 
panic-monger (pan'ik-mung'ger), n. One who 
creates or endeavors to create panics : used in 
contempt. The Nation, Dec. 20, 1883. 
panicograph (pan-i'ko-graf ), . Same as pan- 
iconograph. 
panicography fpan-i-kog'ra-fi), n. Same as 
paniconography. 
paniconograpti (pan-I-kon'o-gr&f), n. [Aspan- 
iconograph-y.] A plate or a print produced by 
paniconography. 
paniconographic (pan-i-kon-o-graf'ik), a. [< 
paniconograph-y + -ic.] Relating to or produced 
by paniconography. 
paniconography (pan-i-ko-nog'ra-fi), n. [< Gr. 
irdf (irav-), all, + C'IKUV, an image (see icon), + 
yp&rcw, write.] A commercial process for pro- 
ducing a design in relief on a zinc plate adapted 
for printing in a press. It is a form of zincog- 
raphy. 
panic-stricken, pani9-stnick (pan'ik-strik'n. 
-struk), a. Struck with a panic or sudden and 
overpowering fear. 
The Italians were panic-ftruck at the aspect of troops so 
different from their own. Pretcott, Ferd. and Isa., u. 1. 
paniculate (pa-nik'u-lat), a. [= F. panicule 
= Pg. panintlado = It. panicolato, < NL. pani- 
culatus, panicled, < L. panicula, a panicle: see 
panicle.] In hot., arranged or branched in the 
manner of panicles ; borne in panicles. 
paniculated (pa-nik'u-la-ted), a. [< paniculate 
+ -cif*.] In hot., same as paniculate. 
paniculately (pa-nik'u-lat-li), nrfr. In hot., in 
a paniculate manner. 
Panicum (pan'i-kum), . [NL.( Linnaeus, 1737), 
< L. panicum, panic-grass : see panic 1 .] A large 
and polymorphous genus of grasses. It Is charac- 
terized by having the pedicels Jointed under each spikelet, 
and the branches of the panicle not continued beyond the 
spikelets; the lower flower of the spikelet manifest but 
imperfect, either staminate or neutral, the upper flower 
closed and hard ; and the lowest of the commonly four 
lumes minute and awnless, without bristles or appen- 
ages beneath. It Includes about ItiO species (by some es- 
timated at more than 300), widely scattered through colder 
regions, some of them almost cosmopolitan. They are an- 
nual or perennial, prostrate or erect, with flowers some- 
times in few unbranched spikes, or commonly in an ample 
and very spreading panicle. A general name for plants 
of the genus Is panic-gran*. It contains, besides wild and 
weed grasses, a considerable number of Important grain 
and forage-plants. For the latter, see mittei, Iradi-kane, 
guinea-gram, concha-grant, thnmalo-gratt, umbrella- gran, 
bamboo. 1 (b). For others less important, see barn-gran, 
cocktpwr-gratt, bur-gran, 2, ginger-gran, crab-gran, \,fn- 
ger-rrratu, old-witch gran. 
panidiomorphic (pan-id'i-o-m6r'fik), a. [< Gr. 
jraf (7rai>-), all, + E. idiomorphic.] A term ap- 
plied by Rosenbusch to rocks in which all the 
components are idiomorphically developed. 
See idiomorphic. 
panidrosis (pan-i-dro'sis), n. [NL., < Gr. rrdf 
(TTOV-), all, + iop&c,, perspiration: see hidrosif.] 
A perspiration over the whole body. 
Of or pertaining to panic ; inclined to panic or 
sudden fright; disposed to disseminate panic ; panier 1 ", n. Seepannieri. 
affected by panic : used particularly with refer- 
ence to operations of trade or commerce: as, 
the market was very panicky. [Colloq.] 
The injury to crops is not sufficient to cause any panicky 
feeling. The American, VIII. 334. 
Our national party conventions have come to be panicky 
hordes, the prey of Intrigues and surprises. 
Sew Princeton Ret., V. 206. 
panier-, "- ot-*?/^nrrcT-. 
Panionic (pan-i-on'ik), a. [< Gr. 1}avluvfc, the 
whole body of Ionians,< ffof (TQI>-), all,+ "luvrc, 
theIonians:see/oiViri,/otf.] Of, pertaining to, 
or concerning all the Ionian peoples or nations. 
The purification of Delos by the Athenians and the res- 
toration of the Panionic festival there. In 428 B. c. 
Eneyc. Brit., VTTI. 875. 
