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the fheriff’s roll or book. Cowel .— Then twelve of fuch as 
are indifferent, and are returned upon the principal panel, 
or the tales, are fworn to try the fame, according to evi¬ 
dence. Hale's Hijl. of England. 
Panel, In Scots law, fignifies the prifoner at the bar, 
or perfon who takes his trial before the court of jufticiary 
for fome crime. 
To PAN'EL, v. a. To form into panels : as, a panelled 
wainfcot.—A very handfome bridge, the battlements 
neatly panne lied with (tone. Pennant. 
PA'NELESS, adj. Wanting panes of glafs : 
How (hall I fmg the various ill that waits 
The careful fonneteer ? or who can paint 
The drifts enormous that in vain he forms 
To patch his panelefs window ? Shenjlone. 
PANELLE'NIA, or Panhellenia, f. [Greek.] An 
ancient feftival, celebrated by an affembly of people from 
all parts of Greece. 
PANE'MUS, f. in chronology, the Boeotian name of the 
Athenian month Metagitmon, which was the fecond of 
their year, and anfwered to the latter part of our July 
and beginning of Auguft. 
Panemus_, among the Corinthians, anfwered to the 
Attic month Boedromion, or, according to Petavius, to 
our November. In the ancient Macedonian calendar, it 
was the ninth month of the year: but, after the conqueft 
of Arabia, they gave this name to the fixth month. 
PANEPHY'SIS, in ancient geography, a town of 
Egypt, and capital of a nome, called by Ptolemy Neut. 
PANE'RE, a town of the Bland of Ceylon: twenty- 
four miles north-north-eaft of Columbo. 
PANETU'RE, a town of the illand of Ceylon : eighteen 
miles fouth of Columbo. 
PANE'US, a mountain of Syria, which formed part of 
Mount Libanns, and at the foot of which was fituated 
a town of the fame name. 
PANG, f. [either from pain, or from hang, Dutch, 
uneafy.] Extreme pain; fudden paroxyfm of torment.— 
See how the pangs of death do make him grin ! Shakejp. 
Ah>! come not, write not, think not once of me, 
Nor fhare one pang of all I felt for thee. Pope. 
To PANG, v. a. To torment cruelly.— A kind word, 
that would make another lover’s heart dance for joy, 
pangs poor Will. Addifon's Lover. 
PAN'GA, a town on the eaft coaft of Celebes. Lat. i. 
54.S. Ion. 121. 16. E. 
PAN'GA, a town of France, in the department of the 
Mofelle, and chief place of a canton, in the diftridt of 
Metz; containing 232 inhabitants. 
PANGAS'US, a mountain of Thrace, anciently called 
Mons Caraminus, and joined to Mount Rhodope near 
the fources of the river Neftus. It was inhabited by four 
different nations. It was on this mountain that Lycurgus, 
the Thracian king, was torn to pieces; and that Orpheus 
called the attention of the wild beads, and of the moun¬ 
tains and woods to liken to his fong. It abounded in 
gold and filver mines. 
PANGASI'NAN, a town on the weft coaft of the illand 
at Lupon, and capital of a province or kingdom. Lat. 15. 
40. N. 
PANGAS'MAN, a fmall illand in the Sooloo Archi¬ 
pelago. Lat. 6. 6. N. Ion. 120. 58. E. 
PANGESA'NA, an illand in the Eaftern Indian Sea, 
about forty-five miles in length, and nine in breadth, 
fituated between the illand of Celebes and Bouton. Lat. 
5. 5. S. Ion. 122. 50. E. 
PANGIMODOO', a fmall illand in the Southern Pacific 
Ocean, at the entrance of the harbour of Tongataboo. 
PAN'GKER, a town of the duchy of Holftein : three 
miles north-north weft of Lutkenborg. 
PAN'GLO, or Pangla'o, one of the fmaller Philippine 
I (lands: fixty miles north of Mindanao. 
PlAN'GO, a town of Africa, capital of a province in 
Vol. XVIII. No. 1246. 
the kingdom of Congo, on the Barbela: forty miles north 
of Congo Batta. 
PANGOOTA'RAN, an illand in the Sooloo Archipe¬ 
lago, about ten miles long, and four broad. Lat. 6. 15. N. 
Ion. 120. 28. E. 
PANGUE'I, a fmall illand in the Eaftern Indian Sea, 
near the coaft of Queda. Lat. 5. 50. N. Ion. 100. 5. E. 
PAN'GY, a town on the eaft coaft of the illand of 
Celebes, in Gunong Tellu Bay. Lat. 1.6. S. Ion. 120. 
15. E. 
PAN'JA, f. in botany. See Bombax. 
PAN'JAB. See Lahore. 
PANJANG', an illand in the Eaftern Indian Sea, near 
the coaft of Siam, about fourteen miles long, and fix 
broad. Lat. 8.N. Ion. 98.42. E. 
PANJANG', a fmall illand in the Eaftern Indian Sea, 
near the eaft coaft of the illand of Borneo. Lat. 2. 15. N. 
Ion. 117. 59. E. 
PANJANG', an illand near the weft coaft of Siam, about 
forty miles in circumference. Lat. 8. N. Ion. 98. 42. E. 
PANJANG', a fmall illand in the Pacific Ocean, near 
the north coaft of New Guinea. Lat. 3.18. S. Ion. 135. 
25. E. 
PANIA'NY, a town of Hindooftan, in Calicut, u'here 
the Dutch have a fadtory. Near this place is a palfage 
through the Gauts, about fixteen miles wide, and fifteen 
in length ; occupied by foreft-trees, and defended by the 
fortreffes of Animaly and Palicaudcherry; and is the im¬ 
portant pafs from the Malabar coaft to the Myfore do¬ 
minions. In 1720, it was taken by the Britilh troops 
under the command of Col. Hartley. It is fifty miles 
W'eft of Palicaudcherry, and forty fouth of Calicut. Lat. 
10.42.N. Ion. 75. 56. E. 
PANJAPIL'LY, a town of Hindooftan, in Myfore : 
thirteen miles weft-fouth-weft of Caveripatam. 
PANIAS'SAS, a town of Louifiania, on the Akanfas. 
Lat. 36. 25. N. Ion. 94. 21. W. 
PAN'IC, or Pan'ical, adj. [from Pan, “lieutenant- 
general of Bacchus in his Indian expedition ; where, 
being encompalfed in a valley with an army of enemies 
far luperior to them in number, he advifed the god to 
order his men in the night to give a general Ihout, which 
fo furprifed the oppofite army, that they immediately lied 
from their camp : whence it came to pafs, that all fudden 
fears, impreffed upon men’s fpirits without any juft rea- 
lon, were called, by the Greeks and Romans, panic 
terrors." Potter, from Polyrenus’s Stratagems. “The 
cuftom of Ihouting, to difmay an enemy, feems to have 
been ufed by almoft all nations, barbarous as well as civil; 
and is mentioned by all writers who treat of martial 
affairs. Homer has feveral elegant defcriptions of it, par¬ 
ticularly one in the fourth Iliad. We have likewife had 
our war-whoops, and Hill have our Ihouts.” James's Mil. 
Didl.’] Violent without caufe, applied to fear.—The fud¬ 
den ftir and panical fear, when chanticleer was carried 
away by reynard. Camden's Rem. —Which many refpedt to 
be but a panich terror, and men do fear, they juftly know 
not what. Brown's Vnlg. Err. 
I left the city in a panich fright; 
Lions they are in council, lambs in fight. Dnjden. 
PAN'IC, f. A fudden fright without caufe.:—There 
are many panicks in mankind, befides merely that of fear. 
Ld. Sliaftcjbury. 
PAN'IC-GRASS. See Panicum. 
PANICASTREL'LA. See CenChrus. 
PAN'ICI EFFIG'IE. See Panicum. 
PAN'ICLE, f. [panicula, Lat.] In botany, a kind of 
inflorefcence where the flowers are fcattered on (talks 
varioully and irregularly divided,—The diftindtion be¬ 
tween a panicle and a fpike is in all cafes very great, but 
particularly important in the natural family of graffes, 
where it feparates molt of the genera into two grand 
fedtions. New Cyclopedia. 
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