- (n.) The betel leaf; also, the masticatory made of the betel leaf, etc. See /etel.
- (n.) The hard stratum of earth that lies below the soil. See Hard pan, under Hard.
- (n.) A leaf of gold or silver.
- (n.) 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, which he is said to have invented.
- (n.) A natural basin, containing salt or fresh water or mud.
- (v.i.) To turn out (profitably or unprofitably); to result; to develop; as, the investigation or the speculation, panned out poorly.
- (n.) 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.
- (n.) A recess or bed, for the leaf of a hinge.
- (v.i.) To yield gold in or as in, the process of panning; -- usually with out; as, the gravel panned out richly.
- (n.) The skull, considered as a vessel containing the brain; the upper part of the head; the brainpan; the cranium.
- (v.t.) To separate, as gold, from dirt or sand, by washing in a kind of pan.
- (n.) The distance comprised between the angle of the epaule and the flanked angle.
- (n.) A part; a portion.
- (n.) A closed vessel for boiling or evaporating. See Vacuum pan, under Vacuum.
- (v.t.&i.) To join or fit together; to unite.
- (n.) The part of a flintlock which holds the priming.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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