panivorous

[Lat. pan is bread, and voro =to devour.) Eating or subsisting on bread. păn-jăm, s. [Native name.] Bot.: The resinous gum of Diospyros embryop teris, an Indian tree. păn-mug, s . [Eng. pan , and mug .] An earthenware crock or ve el in which butter is sent to market; it contains about half a hundredweight. ( Eng . ) păn-nāde, s . [O. Fr.] The curvet of a horse. păn-nage (age as ig), *pawn-age, s. [O. Fr. panage , from Low Latin pannagium , panagium , from Lat. pan is bread.] The food of swine in woods, as acorns, beech-nuts, .; mast. panne, s. [Fr.] Fabric: Worsted plush of French manufacture. păn-nel, s. [PANEL.] I. Ordinary Language: 1. A kind of rustic saddle; a panel. "In that country they ride on bullocks with pannels , as we term them." - Hackluyt: Voyages, ii. 221. 2. The stomach of a hawk. II. Scots Law : [PANEL, 8., II. 3 (2).] păn-ni-er, *păn-ny-er, *păn-1-er, s . [Latin panarius =(a.) pertaining to bread; (s.) one who deals in bread; panarium =a bread-basket, from pan is bread; Fr. panier ; Ital. paniere a breadbasket.] I. Ordinary Language : 1. A basket; primarily for bread, then of any kind. "They take with them great baskets made like bakers' panniers to carry them tenderly." -Hackluyt: Voyages, i. 448. 2. Baskets usually in pairs-slung over the back of an animal of burden to carry a load. The ancient Egyptian paintings show a es with panniers full of children. "Next one upon a pair of panniers , Full fraught with that, which, for good manners, Shall here be namele ." Butler: Hudibras , ii. 2. 3. A part of a lady's dre , attached to the back of the skirt. II. Technically : 1. Arch .: The same as CORBEL (q. v.). 2. Hydr. Eng .: A basket or gabion of wicker-work containing gravel or earth, and used in forming a basis for earthy material in the construction of dikes or banks to exclude water or to resist its action upon its natural banks. *3. Mil . Antiq .: A shield or cover of basket-work, used by archers, who set them in the ground in front of them. păn'-ni-ered, a. [Eng. pannier; -ed.] Loaded with panniers. "To see his gentle panniered train, With more than vernal pleasure feeding." Words worth: Peter Bell , i. *păr-ni-kel, *păn-ni-kell, *păn-ni-cle, subst . [A dim in. from Low Latpannaan The brain-pan; the skull; the crown of the head. "When the spirit fills The fantastic pannicles ." Herrick: Not Every Day fit for Verse. fate, fat, färe, amidst, what, fall, 2994