<B>paludose, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> living or growing in marshes, as animals or plants. </DL>
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<B>Paludrine, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Trademark.) a colorless, synthetic antimalarial drug. </DL>
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<B>palustral, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of or having to do with marshes; found in or inhabiting marshes; paludal. <BR> <I>Ex. In these palustral homes we only croak and wither (Manchester Guardian).</I> </DL>
<B>paly</B> (2), adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Heraldry.) (of a shield or a bearing) divided palewise (vertically) into four or more (usually) equal parts of alternate tinctures. </DL>
<B>palynological, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of or having to do with palynology. adv. <B>palynologically.</B> </DL>
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<B>palynologist, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a person who studies or is skilled in palynology. </DL>
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<B>palynology, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the study of plant spores and pollen, especially in fossil form. </DL>
<A NAME="palytoxin">
<B>palytoxin, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a highly poisonous substance discharged by polyps, especialy as protection against octopuses. </DL>
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<B>pam, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the jack of clubs in one variety of the game of loo. <DD><B> 2. </B>the variety of loo in which it is the best trump. </DL>
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<B>pam.,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> pamphlet. </DL>
<A NAME="pamaquine">
<B>pamaquine, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a yellowish, odorless synthetic drug effective in the treatment of malaria but often toxic to humans. </DL>
<A NAME="pamirsheep">
Pamir sheep, =Marco Polo sheep.</DL>
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<B>pampa, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> singular of <B>pampas.</B> <BR> <I>Ex. Stoneless, soft, immensely fertile, the Argentine pampa stretches sea-flat to the horizon (Economist).</I> </DL>
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<B>pampas, </B>noun pl.<DL COMPACT><DD> the vast, grassy plains of South America, without trees. The pampas are south of the forest-covered belt of the Amazon Basin, especially in Argentina. <BR> <I>Ex. ... across the grassy pampas, where wild gauchos tend their restless herds (New York Times).</I> </DL>
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<B>pampas deer,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a small, reddish or yellowish brown deer with simple antlers that lives on the South American pampas. The pampas deer is able to jump over eight- to ten-foot grass clumps. </DL>
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<B>pampas grass,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> an ornamental grass, native to South America but widely cultivated, having large, thick, feathery panicles of a silvery white, borne on stems which sometimes reach a height of 12 feet. </DL>
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<B>pampean, </B>adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> of or having to do with the pampas. <DD><I>noun </I> an Indian living on or in the region of the pampas. </DL>
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<B>pamper, </B>transitive verb.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>to indulge too much; allow too many privileges to. <BR> <I>Ex. to pamper a child, to pamper a sick person, to pamper one's appetite.</I> (SYN) spoil, humor. <DD><B> 2. </B>(Obsolete.) to cram or glut with food, especially rich food; feed luxuriously. noun <B>pamperer.</B> </DL>
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<B>pampero, </B>noun, pl. <B>-peros.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a piercing cold wind that blows from the Andes across the pampas of South America to the Atlantic. </DL>
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<B>pamph.,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> pamphlet. </DL>
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<B>pamphlet, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a booklet in paper covers. A pamphlet often deals with a question of current interest. <BR> <I>Ex. In Europe, the pamphlet is a short piece of writing essentially polemic in nature, concerned with a problem of the moment (Harper's).</I> (SYN) tract, brochure. <DD><B> 2. </B>any printed booklet with few pages. </DL>
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<B>pamphletary, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of, like, or having to do with a pamphlet or pamphleteering. </DL>
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<B>pamphleteer, </B>noun, verb.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> a person who writes pamphlets, especially on controversial subjects. <BR> <I>Ex. As a pamphleteer Thomas Paine is without his equal in American literature (Jones and Leisy).</I> <DD><I>v.i. </I> to write and issue pamphlets. </DL>
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<B>pampootie, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a simple shoe consisting of a piece of hide held to the foot by leather cords, worn by the island fishermen of western Ireland. </DL>
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<B>pamprodactylous, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Ornithology.) having all four toes turned forward, as in the coly. </DL>
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<B>pan</B> (1), noun, verb, <B>panned,</B> <B>panning.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>a dish for cooking and other household uses, usually broad, shallow, and often with no cover. <BR> <I>Ex. pots and pans.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>anything like this. Gold and other metals are sometimes obtained by washing ore in pans. The dishes on a pair of scales are called pans. <DD><B> 3a. </B>a relatively broad, shallow vessel, usually of cast iron, in which ores, especially of silver, were formerly ground and amalgamated. <DD><B> b. </B>a shallow vessel used for evaporating water from any of various liquid substances, so as to obtain a desired substance, such as salt from brine or maple syrup from maple sap. <DD><B> 4. </B>the contents of a pan; a mount that a pan will hold. <DD><B> 5. </B>the hollow part of the lock in old-fashioned guns, used to hold a little gunpowder to set off the gun. <DD><B> 6. </B>hard subsoil; hardpan. <DD><B> 7. </B>a hollow or depression in the ground, especially one in which water stands. <BR> <I>Ex. A dry pan, or waterhole, which ... was densely covered with weeds (H. Rider Haggard).</I> <DD><B> 8. </B>a natural or artificial basin in which salt is obtained by evaporating seawater. <DD><B> 9. </B><B>=pan ice.</B> <DD><B> 10. </B>(Informal.) severe criticism. <BR> <I>Ex. The reviews usually said I gave an adequate or good performance. I never got raves, but neither did I get pans (Robert Taylor).</I> <DD><B> 11. </B>(Slang.) a face. <BR> <I>Ex. Francis ... has a genial, happy pan (New York Times).</I> <DD><I>v.t. </I> <B>1. </B>to cook in a pan. <DD><B> 2a. </B>to wash in a pan. <BR> <I>Ex. to pan gold.</I> <DD><B> b. </B>to wash (gravel, sand, etc.) in a pan to separate the gold. <DD><B> 3. </B>(Informal.) to criticize severely. <BR> <I>Ex. The drama critic panned the new play.</I> <DD><I>v.i. </I> <B>1. </B>to wash gold-bearing gravel, sand, etc., in a pan in order to separate the gold. <BR> <I>Ex. Panning consists merely of segregating by gravity and water the earthy material from the metal in the pan (White and Renner).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>to yield gold when washed in a pan. <BR><I>expr. <B>pan out,</B> </I>(Informal.) to turn out or work out. <BR> <I>Ex. The signs revealed that the experiment wasn't panning out (Harper's).</I> </DL>
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<B>pan</B> (2), noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the betel leaf. <DD><B> 2. </B>a combination, as of betel leaf, areca nut, and lime, used for chewing like gum in various parts of Asia. </DL>
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<B>pan</B> (3), verb, <B>panned,</B> <B>panning,</B> noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>v.i. </I> to move a motion picture or television camera either vertically or horizontally, so as to take in a larger scene or to follow a moving object. <BR> <I>Ex. The camera panned from the speaker to the audience. The TV camera panned over a crowded room (Punch).</I> <DD><I>v.t. </I> to move (a camera) in this way. <DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>the act or process of panning. <BR> <I>Ex. Compressed into a film, too, the scene-transitions [were] made by smooth dissolves or pans (Richard Mallett).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>a panning motion. <BR> <I>Ex. All of the cameras have ... pan (Science News). He ... took in the lobby with one pan of his leonine head (Maclean's).</I> </DL>
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<B>Pan, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Greek Mythology.) the god of forests, pastures, flocks, hunters, and shepherds. Pan is described as a man with legs, horns, and ears of a goat, who wandered through the woods playing on musical pipes. The Romans called him Faunus. </DL>
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<B>pan-,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (combining form.) all; of all; entirely. <BR> <I>Ex. PanAmerican = of all Americans. Panacea = a remedy for all diseases. Panchromatic = entirely chromatic.</I> </DL>
<B>panacea, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a remedy for all diseases or ills; cure-all. <BR> <I>Ex. For my panacea ... let me have a draught of undiluted morning air (Thoreau).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>(Figurative.) anything that resembles such a remedy or medicine in the range of virtues claimed for it, such as an economic program or a political reform. <BR> <I>Ex. There are no panaceas in education. The first panacea for a mis-managed nation is inflation of the currency (Ernest Hemingway).</I> </DL>
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<B>panacean, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of the nature of a panacea. </DL>
<A NAME="panache">
<B>panache, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a tuft or plume of feathers used ornamentally, especially on a helmet. <BR> <I>Ex. With him came a gallant train ... decorated with rich surcoats and panaches of feathers (Washington Irving).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>(Figurative.) a flamboyant manner or style; swagger; dash. <BR> <I>Ex. With the poise and panache most debs would envy, Catrina Colston wears palest blue organdie (Sunday Times).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="panada">
<B>panada, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a dish made of bread or crackers boiled in water or milk to a pulp and variously seasoned or flavored. </DL>
<A NAME="panafrican">
<B>Pan-African, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>of or for all African peoples. <BR> <I>Ex. a Pan-African union.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>of Pan-Africanism. <BR> <I>Ex. a Pan-African policy.</I> </DL>
