pan2+ (pan)

[Origin obscure; according to some, F. pan, a piece of clothing, = Sp. paño Pg. It. pan no, see IMG:content-2214.png:[blocks in formation] e panel.] I. trans. To join; close together. II. in trans. To unite; fit; agree. [Prov. Eng.] Weal and women cannot pan , But wo and women can. Douce , MS. Additions to Ray's Proverbs. ( Hall i well .) [L., Pan3 (pan), n. (see def.).] In anc. Gr. myth., the god of pastures, forests, and flocks. The original seat of his worship was in Arcadia, whence it gradually spread over the rest of Greece. He was represented with the head and chest of an elderly man, while his lower parts were like the hind quarters of a goat, of which animal he often Pan teaching Apollo to play on the Pandean Pipes. (From statue in Museo Nazionale, Naples.) bore the horns and ears also. He was fond of music, and of dancing with the forest nymphs, and was the inventor of the syrinx or shepherd's flute, hence termed Pan's pipes or Pandean pipes. (See Pan's pipes, under pipel.) Sudden terror without visible or reasonable cause was attributed to his influence (see panic2 ). The Romans identified the Greek Pan with their own god Inuus, and sometimes also with Faunus (see faun ).