pansy 
pcnsirc."] A favorite species of violet, Violn 
tricolor: tbe heart's-ease. The wild plant is ex- 
tremely variable, becoming in the variety aroenxis, or 
field-pansy, an inconspicuous annual field-weed ; in others 
it is more showy. The innumerable garden varieties, with 
large richly and variously colored flowers, have been de- 
veloped by long culture and by hybridizing with various 
perennial species. The pansy is an otticinal herb, the root 
being cathartic and emetic. 
The white pink, and OM pansy freak'd with jet. 
Milton, Lycidas, 1. 144. 
Those eyes 
Darker than darkest pmrn'es. 
Tennyson, Gardener's Daughter. 
pant 1 (pant), v. [< ME. panten, appar. < OF. 
l>anti>yer(= Pr.panteiar), also panteler, F. pan- 
teler, pant, gasp, throb, cf. OF. pantais, pantois, 
shortness of breath, as in hawks (see pantos); 
ult. origin uncertain. The E. dial, panic, pant, 
is prob. a mere var. of pant 1 .] I. intrant. 1. 
To breathe hard or quickly; gasp with open 
mouth and heaving breast, as after exertion; 
gasp with excited eagerness. 
I pant for life ; some good I mean to do, 
Despite of mine own nature. 
Shale., Lear, v. 3. 243. 
A Moorish horseman had spurred across the vega, nor 
reined his panting steed until he alighted at the gate of 
the Alhambra. Irving, Granada, p. 38. 
2. To throb or heave with violence or rapidity, 
as the heart or the breast after exertion or emo- 
tion. 
Lively breath her sad brest did forsake ; 
Yet might her pltteous hart be seene to pant and quake. 
Spenser, F. Q., I. vii. 20. 
He . . , struck his armed heels 
Against the panting sides of his poor jade 
Up to the rowel-head. Shak., 2 Hen. IV., i. 1. 45. 
3. To bulge alternately in and out, as the skin 
of iron ships when the plating is structurally 
very weak. 
"Pantinff" is more often experienced at the bows than 
at the sterns of iron and steel ships. 
The Enyineer, LXVI. 213. 
4. To languish; pine. 
The whispering breeze 
Pants on the leaves and dies upon the trees. 
Pope, Winter, 1. 80. 
6. To long with breathless eagerness ; desire 
greatly or with agitation : with for or after. 
As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth 
my soul after thee, O God. Ps. xlii. 1. 
Oh life, not death, for which v/cpant; 
More life, and fuller, that I want. 
Tennyson, Two Voices. 
= Syn. 1. To puff, blow. B. To yearn, sigh, hunger, thirst. 
II. trans. 1. To breathe (out) in a labored 
manner ; gasp (out) with a spasmodic effort. 
"No no no," I panted out, " I am no actress." 
Miss Burmy, Evelina, letter xlvi. 
There is a cavern where my spirit 
\V as panted forth in anguish, whilst thy pain 
Made my heart mad. 
Shelley, Prometheus Unbound, iii. 3. 
2f. To long for; desire with eagerness and 
agitation. 
Then shall hearts pant thee. Herbert. 
pant 1 (pant), n. [< pant 1 , v.] 1. A quick, 
short effort of breathing; a gasp. 2. A throb, 
as of the heart. 
Leap thou ... to my heart, and there 
Ride on the pants triumphing. 
Shak., A. and C., iv. 8. 16. 
Often I trod in air ; often I felt the quick pants of my 
bosom. Goodwin, Fleetwood, vi. 
pant 2 (pant), . [Origin obscure.] A public 
fountain or well in a town or village. [Prov. 
Eng.] 
pantablet (pan'ta-bl), n. [Also pantaple, pan- 
tapple, and abbr. pantap ; a corruption of pan- 
tofle, q. v.] A slipper: same as pan tofle. 
Comes master Dametas . . . chafing and swearing by 
the pantable of Pallas, and such other oaths as his rustical 
bravery could imagine. Sir P. Sidney, Arcadia, I. 
Bareheaded, in his shirt, a pair of pantaples on. 
Middleton, Blurt, Master-Constable, iv. 2. 
If any courtier of them all set up his gallows there, 
wench, use him as thou dost thy pantaHes, scorn to let 
him kiss thy heel. Dekker and Webster, Westward Ho, ii. 3. 
[It has been noticed that pantable and slipper occur in 
the same inventory as denoting different articles, but 
doubtless the exact application of these words varied from 
time to time.] To stand upon one's pan tables, to 
stand upon one's dignity. 
Then comes a page : the saucy jacket-wearer 
Stood upon 'spantables with me, and would in ; 
But, I think, I took him down ere I had done with him. 
Beau, and Ft. (?), Faithful Friends, iii. 2. 
pantaclet, pantoclet, . Corrupt forms of pan- 
tofle. 
Whether a man lust to weare Shoo or Pantocle. 
Ascham, The Scholemaster, p. 84. 
4262 
If you play Jacke napes in mocking my master and despis- 
ing my face. 
Even here with a pantade I wyll you disgrace. 
Old Plays, 1. 215. (Hares.) 
pantacosm (pan'ta-kozm), n. [Prop. *panto- 
cosm, < Gr. Trdf (ifavr-), all, + K&r/iof, world.] 
Same as cosmolaoe. 
pantagamy (pan-tag'a-mi), n. [Prop. *pantog- 
amy, F. pantogamie, ? Gr. n-fif (TTCIVT-), all, + 
-yaftia, < yd/j.of, marriage.] A peculiar domes- 
tic relation maintained between the sexes in 
certain quasi-religious and communistic com- 
munities in the United States, especially (for- 
merly) among the Perfectionists of the Oneida 
Community, by which every man was virtually 
the husband of every woman, and every woman 
the wife of every man. 
A scheme of pantagamy, by which all the male and all 
the female members of the community are held to be in a 
sense married to each other. 
Johnson's Univ. Cyc., III. 951. 
pantagogue (pan'ta-gog), n. [< Gr. froj (TTO.VT-), 
all, + djuyof, drawing forth, s ayciv, lead: see 
agent.] A medicine which expels all morbid 
matter. 
pantagraph (pan'ta-graf), n. See pantograph. 
pantagraphic, paritagraphical (pan-ta-graf '- 
ik, -i-kal), a. See pantograpliic. 
Pantagruelian (pan'ta-gro-el'i-an), a. [< Pan- 
tagruel (see def.) + -tan.] Of or pertaining to 
Pantagruel (see Pantagruelism) ; partaking of 
or resembling Pantagruelism. 
Pantagruelism (pan-ta-gro'el-izm), . [< Pan- 
tagruel + -ism.] 1. Tne philosophy or methods 
ascribed to Pantagruel, one of the characters 
of Rabelais ; the practice of dealing with serious 
matters in a spirit of broad and somewhat cyni- 
cal good humor. 2. A satirical or opprobrious 
term applied to the profession of medicine. 
Pantagruelist (pan-ta-gro'el-ist), . [< Panta- 
grueWsm + -ist.~\ A believer in Pautagruel- 
ism; one who has the peculiar cynical humor 
called Pantagruelism. 
Everywhere the author [Rabelais] lays stress on the ex- 
cellence of "Pantagruelism," and the reader who is him- 
self a Pantagruelist (it is perfectly idle for any other to at- 
tempt the book) soon discovers what this means. 
Enctie. Brit., XX. 196. 
pantaleon (pan-tal'e-on), . [Also pantaleonc, 
pantalon; said to have been so named (by Louis 
XIV. ) after the inventor Pantaleon Hebenstreit, 
aPrussian.] 1. A musical instrument invented 
about 1700 by Pantaleon Hebenstreit. it was 
essentially a very large dulcimer, having between one and 
two hundred strings of both gut and metal, which were 
sounded by hammers held in the player's hands. It was 
one of the many experiments which culminated in the 
production of the pianoforte. 
2. A variety of pianoforte in which the ham- 
mers strike the strings from above. 
pantalets (pan-ta-lets'), " pt. [Also panta- 
lettes; < pantal(oon) + dim. -et.] 1. Long 
frilled drawers, worn by women and girls. 
Pippa reasons like a Paracelsus in pantalets. 
Stedman, Viet. Poets, p. 318. 
2. A false or adjustable prolongation of the 
legs of women's drawers, renewed for iieatness 
as is done with cuffs and the like : worn about 
1840-50. 
After a while there came a fashion for pantalettes, which 
consisted simply of a broad ruffle fastened by a tight band 
just below the knee. If. and Q., 7th ser., VI. 391. 
pantalettes, n. pi. See pantalets. 
pantalon 1 (pan ta-lon), M. [F.: see pantaloon .] 
The first movement or figure in the old qua- 
drille, the name being derived from a song to 
which this figure was originally danced. 
pantalon 2 (pan'ta-lon), n. Same as pantaleon. 
pantaloon (pan-ta-16'n'), n. [< F. pantalon = 
Sp. pantalon = Pg. pantalcto, < It. dial, panta- 
lone, a buffoon, pantaloon, so called in allusion 
to the Venetians, who were nicknamed Panta- 
loni, from the name of St. Pantaleon (It. Panta- 
leone), the patron saint of Venice, whose name 
was a favorite one with the Venetians; < L. Pan- 
taleon, < Gr. TlavrcMuv, a proper name, lit. 'all- 
lion' (perhaps favored as supplying an allu- 
sion to the lion of St. Mark), < naf (vavr-), all, 
+ AJV, lion. The name is also explained (by 
Littre) as for * Pantelemone, < MGr. iravrefaqfujv, 
all-merciful, < Gr. war; (KO.VT-), all, + eteq/iuv, mer- 
ciful (see alms, eleemosynary) ; but neither this 
nor the form tAeav (cAfoir-), ppr. of c)xtlv, have 
mercy, suits the case. A third explanation, men- 
tioned by Byron, makes the It. I'antaleone stand 
for "piantnleone, as if 'the planter of the lion' 
(the standard bearing the lion of St. Mark), < 
plantar, plant, + leone, Hon.] 1. In early II, il- 
ian comedy, a character usually represented as 
pantelephonic 
a lean and foolish old man (properly a Vene- 
tian), wearing spectacles and slippers, ll'rii/kl. 
The sixth age shifts 
Into the lean and slipper'd pantaloon, 
With spectacles on nose and pouch on side ; 
His youthful hose, well saved, a world too wide 
For his shrunk shank. 
Shak., As you Like it, ii. 7. 158. 
Now they peepe like Italian pantelovms 
Behind an arras. 
Heuwuod, If you Know not Me (Works, ed. Pearson, I. 257). 
2. In mod. pantomime, a character usually rep- 
resented as a foolish and vicious old man, the 
butt of the clown, and his accomplice in all his 
wicked and funny pranks, 
pantaloonery (pan-ta-lo'ne-ri), n. [< panta- 
loon + -ery.] The tricks or behavior of a pan- 
taloon; buffoonery. [Rare.] 
The clownery and pantaloonery of these pantomimes 
have clean passed out of my head. Lamb, My First Play. 
pantaloons (pan-ta-lon?/), n. pi. [< F. panta- 
lon (pi. pantalons,"used only for two or more 
pairs) = Sp. pantalones, pi., = Pg. pantalonas, 
pi., = NGr. 7ravTaMm,< It.pantaloni, pantaloons, 
< Pantalone, a Vene- 
tian : see pantaloon. 
Cf. Venetians, a form 
of hose or breeches, 
also of Venetian ori- 
gin.] If. A garment 
for men, consisting of 
breeches and stock- 
ings in one: so called 
because worn by Vene- 
tians. 
I could not but wonder 
to see pantaloons and shoul- 
der-knots crowding among 
the common clowns. 
Roger North, Lord Ouilford, 
[I. 289. (Dames.) 
2. In the early years 
of the nineteenth cen- 
tury, tight-fitting gar- 
ments for the thighs 
and legs, worn by men 
of fashion, generally 
buttoned around the 
lower part of the calf, 
or sometimes tied with 
ribbons at this point. 
Hence 3. Trousers 
the modem trousers having succeeded to the 
pantaloons by a gradual transition. 
It appeared to the butcher that he could pretty clearly 
discern what seemed to be the stalwart legs, clad in black 
pantaloons, of a man sitting in a large oaken chair, the 
back of which concealed all the remainder of his figure. 
Hawthorne, Seven Gables, xix. 
= Sy n. 3. See trousers. 
pantamorph (pan'ta-morf), n. Same as pan- 
tomorph. 
pantamorphic (pan-ta-m6r'nk), a. Same as 
pantomorphic. 
pantanencephalia (pan-tan-en-se-fa'li-a), . 
[NL., < Gr. fl-af (vavr-), all, + ave) ne 0a/tof , with- 
out brain : see anencepnalio .] In teratol., total 
absence of brain. 
pantapt, pantaplet, See pantable. 
pantast (pan'tas), n. [Also pantass, pantasse, 
pantcss, pantais; < OF. pantais, pantois, a dis- 
ease of hawks: see pant 1 .] In falconry, a de- 
structive pulmonary disease of hawks. 
pantascope (pan'ta-skop), n. See pantoscope. 
pantascopic (pan-ta-skop'ik), a. See panto- 
scopic. 
pantechnetheca (pan-tek-ne-the'ka), M. ; pi. 
pantechnethecse (-se). [NL., irreg. < Gr. raf 
(TTOV-), all, + T^xvy, art., + Stjia/, repository, re- 
ceptacle: see theca.] Same as pantechnicon. 
pantechnic (pan-tek'nik), a. [< Gr. irtif (irav-), 
all, + Tixifq, art: see technic.] Related to or 
including all arts. 
pantechnicon (pan-tek'ni-kon), n. [NL. (cf. Gr. 
vavTExvos, assistant of all arts), < Gr. TTOC (TTOV-), 
all, T Texyii, art.] A place where all kinds of 
manufactured articles are collected and dis- 
played for sale. 
pantelegraph (pan-tel'e-graf), n. [< Gr. TTOC 
(irav-), all,-f E. telegraph.] A device for trans- 
mitting autographic messages, maps, etc., by 
means of electricity. 
pantelephonic (pan-tel-e-fon'ik), (7. [< Gr. 
Trcif (irac-), all, + E. telephone + -ic] Refer- 
ring to those vibrations of the diaphragm of a 
telephone which seem to be independent of its 
form and dimensions, and in virtue of which all 
sounds are reproduced rather than those only 
which correspond to its natural period. Sci. 
Amer.,N. S., LVI. 343. 
Venetian Hose in one piece from 
1st to feet, i6th century prob- 
ably the garment called by for- 
eigners fantaieonf, or pantalooiib. 
