Pan , v. 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.]
Pan , v. t. [imp. & p. p. Panned (?);
p. pr. & vb. n.
Panning.]
(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 , n. [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. (C&?;rp.) 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 (?), n. [L., fr. Gr. &?;.]
(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, which
he is said to have invented.
Pan (?), n. [Hind. pān, Skr. parna leaf.]
The betel leaf; also, the masticatory made of the betel leaf, etc. See &?;etel.
Pan , v. 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 , n. [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- (?), Pan"ta- (?), Pan"to- (?) }. [Gr. &?;, m.,
&?;,neut., gen. &?;, all.]
Combining forms signifying all, every; as, panorama,
pantheism, pantagraph, pantograph. Pan- becomes pam- before b or p, as
pamprodactylous.
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