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Webster 1913 Edition


Pan

Pan

,
Noun.
[OE. See 2d
Pane
.]
1.
A part; a portion.
2.
(Fort.)
The distance comprised between the angle of the epaule and the flanked angle.
3.
[Perh. a different word.]
A leaf of gold or silver.

Pan

,
Verb.
T.
&
I.
[Cf. F.
pan
skirt, lappet, L.
pannus
a cloth, rag, W.
panu
to fur, to full.]
To join or fit together; to unite.
[Obs.]
Halliwell.

Pan

,
Noun.
[Hind.
pān
, Skr.
parna
leaf.]
The betel leaf; also, the masticatory made of the betel leaf, etc. See
Betel
.

Pan

,
p
rop.
Noun.
[L., fr. Gr. [GREEK].]
(Gr. Myth.)
The god of shepherds, guardian of bees, and patron of fishing and hunting. He is usually represented as having the head and trunk of a man, with the legs, horns, and tail of a goat, and as playing on the shepherd’s pipe (also called the pipes of Pan), which he is said to have invented.

Pan

,
Noun.
[OE.
panne
, AS.
panne
; cf. D.
pan
, G.
pfanne
, OHG.
pfanna
, Icel., Sw., LL., & Ir.
panna
, of uncertain origin; cf. L.
patina
, E.
paten
.]
1.
A shallow, open dish or vessel, usually of metal, employed for many domestic uses, as for setting milk for cream, for frying or baking food, etc.; also employed for various uses in manufacturing.
“A bowl or a pan.”
Chaucer.
2.
(Manuf.)
A closed vessel for boiling or evaporating. See
Vacuum pan
, under
Vacuum
.
3.
The part of a flintlock which holds the priming.
4.
The skull, considered as a vessel containing the brain; the upper part of the head; the brainpan; the cranium.
Chaucer.
5.
(Carp.)
A recess, or bed, for the leaf of a hinge.
6.
The hard stratum of earth that lies below the soil. See
Hard pan
, under
Hard
.
7.
A natural basin, containing salt or fresh water, or mud.
Flash in the pan
.
See under
Flash
.
To savor of the pan
,
to suggest the process of cooking or burning; in a theological sense, to be heretical.
Ridley. Southey.

Pan

,
Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Panned
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Panning
.]
1.
(Mining)
To separate, as gold, from dirt or sand, by washing in a kind of pan.
[U. S.]
We . . . witnessed the process of cleaning up and
panning
out, which is the last process of separating the pure gold from the fine dirt and black sand.
Gen. W. T. Sherman.

Pan

,
Verb.
I.
1.
(Mining)
To yield gold in, or as in, the process of panning; – usually with
out
;
as, the gravel
panned
out richly
.
2.
To turn out (profitably or unprofitably); to result; to develop;
as, the investigation, or the speculation,
panned
out poorly
.
[Slang, U. S.]

Webster 1828 Edition


Pan

PAN

, n.
1.
A vessel broad and somewhat hollow or depressed in the middle, or with a raised border; used for setting milk and other domestic purposes.
2.
The part of a gun-lock or other fire-arms which holds the priming that communicates with the charge.
3.
Something hollow; as the brain pan.
4.
Among farmers, the hard stratum of earth that lies below the soil; called the hard pan.
5.
The top of the head.

PAN

,
Verb.
T.
To join; to close together. [Local.]

Definition 2024


pàn

pàn

See also: Appendix:Variations of "pan"

Mandarin

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Romansch

Alternative forms

  • (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Puter) paun
  • (Surmiran) pang
  • (Vallader) pan

Etymology

From Latin pānis, pānem.

Noun

pàn m (plural pàns)

  1. (Sutsilvan, uncountable) bread
  2. (Sutsilvan, countable) loaf of bread

Scottish Gaelic

Noun

pàn m (genitive singular pàin, plural pànaichean)

  1. (chess) pawn

Mutation

Scottish Gaelic mutation
Radical Lenition
pàn phàn
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

See also

Chess pieces in Scottish Gaelic · fir-tàileisg (layout · text)
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rìgh banrigh tùr easbaig ridire pàn