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<HTML> <HEAD><TITLE>DICTIONARY: panglossian - pannose</TITLE></HEAD> <BODY BGCOLOR="#ffffff"> <A HREF="a.dic">A</A> <A HREF="b.dic">B</A> <A HREF="c.dic">C</A> <A HREF="d.dic">D</A> <A HREF="e.dic">E</A> <A HREF="f.dic">F</A> <A HREF="g.dic">G</A> <A HREF="h.dic">H</A> <A HREF="i.dic">I</A> <A HREF="j.dic">J</A> <A HREF="k.dic">K</A> <A HREF="l.dic">L</A> <A HREF="m.dic">M</A> <A HREF="n.dic">N</A> <A HREF="o.dic">O</A> <A HREF="p.dic">P</A> <A HREF="q.dic">Q</A> <A HREF="r.dic">R</A> <A HREF="s.dic">S</A> <A HREF="t.dic">T</A> <A HREF="u.dic">U</A> <A HREF="v.dic">V</A> <A HREF="w.dic">W</A> <A HREF="x.dic">X</A> <A HREF="y.dic">Y</A> <A HREF="z.dic">Z</A> <A NAME="panglossian"> Panglossian, adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD>adj. characteristic of Doctor Pangloss, a philosopher in Voltaire's satire Candide, who maintained that everything is for the best in this best of possible worlds; given to stubborn and undue optimism. Ex. This is not an area in which Panglossian complacency should flourish amid a general hum of self-approval (London Times). <DD>noun a person given to undue optimism. Ex. The Panglossians ... point out that three of the four U.S. recessions since World War II were due to special causes (Time). </DL> <A NAME="pangolin"> pangolin, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> any one of a genus of scaly, toothless mammals of tropical Asia and Africa that roll themselves into a ball when in danger; scaly anteater. </DL> <A NAME="pangram"> pangram, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a sentence made up to include all the letters of the alphabet. </DL> <A NAME="pangrammatic"> pangrammatic, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of or having to do with a pangram. </DL> <A NAME="panhandle"> panhandle (1), noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. the handle of a pan. <DD> 2. a narrow strip of land projecting like a handle, such as a state or territory extending between two others. Ex. the Texas panhandle. </DL> <A NAME="panhandle"> panhandle (2), intransitive verb, transitive verb, -dled, -dling.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Informal.) to beg, especially in the streets. Ex. He prides himself on the fact that he has never panhandled, never visited a soup kitchen, or taken a night's lodging in one of the various hospitals maintained by charitable agencies in the city (Harper's). </DL> <A NAME="panhandler"> panhandler, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a person who begs, especially in the streets. Ex. A panhandler approached them, and Tony gave him a dollar (New Yorker). </DL> <A NAME="panhellenic"> Panhellenic or panhellenic, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. of or having to do with all Greek people or all Greece. <DD> 2. of or having to do with all college fraternities and sororities. </DL> <A NAME="panhellenism"> Panhellenism, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. the idea or principle of a political union of all Greeks. <DD> 2. belief in or support of this principle. noun Panhellenist. </DL> <A NAME="panhuman"> panhuman, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> affecting all human beings. Ex. ... malnutrition can also be regarded as a panhuman genetic defect (Joshua Lederberg). </DL> <A NAME="panic"> panic (1), noun, adjective, verb, -icked, -icking.<DL COMPACT><DD>noun 1. a fear affecting an individual or spreading through a whole group of persons or animals so that they lose control of themselves; unreasoning fear. Ex. When the theater caught fire there was panic in the audience. <DD> 2. an outbreak of widespread alarm, as in a community, over financial or commercial matters, which tends to demoralize judgment and lead to hasty, ill-advised measures to avoid loss. Ex. When four banks failed in one day, there was a panic among businessmen. <DD> 3. (Slang.) a very amusing person or thing. Ex. His costume is a panic. <DD>adj. caused by panic; showing panic; unreasoning. Ex. panic terror, panic fear. (SYN) panicky, frantic. <DD>v.i. to be affected with panic. Ex. The audience panicked when fire broke out in the theater. <DD>v.t. 1. to affect with panic. Ex. Orson Welles, who panicked his fellow Americans with the great Martian invasion broadcast in 1938, has returned to his native heath for good, after nearly ten years abroad (Newsweek). <DD> 2. (Slang.) to make (an audience) laugh; amuse greatly. Ex. His jokes simply panic me. </DL> <A NAME="panic"> panic (2), noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. foxtail millet, cultivated in southern Europe for its edible grain. <DD> 2. =panic grass. </DL> <A NAME="panic"> Panic, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of or having to do with Pan or the terror supposed to be caused by him. </DL> <A NAME="panicattack"> panic attack,<DL COMPACT><DD> a sudden feeling of intense anxiety for no apparent reason, which can recur and increase in severity. Ex. Panic attacks typically involve unexpected periods of fear or terror, combined with physical symptoms such as shortness of breath, dizziness, palpitations (Bruce Bower). </DL> <A NAME="panicbutton"> panic button,<DL COMPACT><DD> (U.S. Informal.) a control button or switch, as in an aircraft, for use in an emergency. Ex. They are not in real danger and can push the panic button and halt the experiment if they really need to (New York Times). expr. hit the panic button (or switch), (Slang.) to become prematurely or overly excited in the face of a supposed emergency. Ex. Pull yourself together; there's no need to hit the panic button. </DL> <A NAME="panice"> pan ice,<DL COMPACT><DD> (Geology.) blocks or pieces of ice formed along the shore, and afterwards loosened and driven by winds or currents. </DL> <A NAME="panicgrass"> panic grass,<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. any of a group of grasses, many species of which produce edible grain. <DD> 2. the grain of any such grass. </DL> <A NAME="panicky"> panicky, adjective, -ickier, -ickiest.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. caused by panic. Ex. panicky haste. <DD> 2. showing panic. Ex. panicky actions. <DD> 3. like panic. Ex. panicky feelings. <DD> 4. liable to lose self-control and have a panic. Ex. a panicky market. </DL> <A NAME="panicle"> panicle, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Botany.) <DD> 1. a loose, diversely branching flower cluster. A panicle is produced when a raceme becomes irregularly compound and is one kind of indeterminate inflorescence. Ex. a panicle of oats. <DD> 2. any loose, diversely branching cluster in which the flowers are borne on pedicels. </DL> <A NAME="panicled"> panicled, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> having or forming panicles. </DL> <A NAME="panicstricken"> panic-stricken, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> frightened out of one's wits; demoralized by fear. Ex. The Moors, confused and ... panic-stricken, vainly seek to escape (Robert Southey). Owen and I looked at one another in panic-stricken silence (W. Wilkie Collins). </DL> <A NAME="panicstruck"> panic-struck, adjective. =panic-stricken.</DL> <A NAME="paniculate"> paniculate, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Botany.) growing in a panicle; arranged in panicles. adv. paniculately. </DL> <A NAME="paniculated"> paniculated, adjective. =paniculate.</DL> <A NAME="panier"> panier, noun. =pannier.</DL> <A NAME="paniolo"> paniolo, noun, pl. -los.<DL COMPACT><DD> (in Hawaii) a cowboy. Ex. The saddle base is patterned after those brought to Hawaii by the paniolos, originally Mexican vaqueros who taught Hawaiians to ride, rope, and work with leather (New York Times). </DL> <A NAME="paniranist"> Pan-Iranist, noun, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD>noun an advocate or supporter of the political union of all Iranians, especially the union of Bahrain with Iran. <DD>adj. of or having to do with the Pan-Iranists or their policies. Ex. the Pan-Iranist Party. </DL> <A NAME="panislamic"> Pan-Islamic, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> having to do with all Islam or with a union of all Moslem nations. </DL> <A NAME="panislamism"> Pan-Islamism, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. the idea or principle of a political union of all Moslem states. <DD> 2. belief in or support of this principle. </DL> <A NAME="panjabi"> Panjabi, noun, pl. -bis.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. =Punjabi. <DD> 2. an Indic language of the Punjab, a region in northwestern India, related to Hindi; Punjabi. </DL> <A NAME="panjandrum"> panjandrum, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. a mock title for an imaginary personage of great power or importance. Ex. So he died and she very imprudently married the barber and there were present the Picninnies, and the Joblillies ... and the grand Panjandrum himself with the little round button at top (Samuel Foote). <DD> 2. any pretentious personage or official. Ex. There is not space here to describe methods by which the budget officer has become the grand panjandrum of public administration (New York Times). </DL> <A NAME="panleucopenia"> panleucopenia or panleukopenia, noun. =feline enteritis.</DL> <A NAME="panmixia"> panmixia, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> indiscriminate crossing of breeds without selection. </DL> <A NAME="pannage"> pannage, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. the act of feeding of swine in a forest or wood. Ex. ... herding swine in the forests, in the time of pannage, when acorns and beechmast were on the floor (Punch). <DD> 2. the right of pasturing swine in a forest. <DD> 3. the payment made to the owner of the forest for this right. </DL> <A NAME="panne"> panne, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a soft, highly lustrous cloth with a long nap, resembling velvet. Ex. We see her in a dress of grey panne (Westminster Gazette). </DL> <A NAME="pannir"> pannir, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. a basket, especially one of a pair of considerable size to be slung across the shoulders or across the back of a beast of burden. Ex. panniers slung on sturdy horses (Wordsworth). <DD> 2. a frame formerly used for stretching out the skirt of a woman's dress at the hips. <DD> 3. a puffed drapery about the hips on a woman's skirt. Also, panier. </DL> <A NAME="panniered"> panniered, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> having, or laden with, a pannier or panniers. Ex. panniered skirts. </DL> <A NAME="pannikin"> pannikin, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> 1. a small pan. <DD> 2. a metal cup or mug, usually shallow. </DL> <A NAME="panning"> panning, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Slang.) a severe criticism or reprimand. Ex. They were afraid the film would get the same sort of panning as "Peeping Tom" got (Punch). </DL> <A NAME="pannose"> pannose, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Botany.) having the appearance or texture of felt or woolen cloth. adv. pannosely. </DL> <A HREF="pano.dic">NEXT</A>