panegyret (panejir)

[ panegyric (pan-e-jir'ik), a. and n. [F. pané gyrique, OF. panegeric = Sp. panegírico = Pg. panegyrico = It. panegirico, L. panegyric us, laudatory, a panegyric, True fame demands not panegyric aid. W. Harte, The Confe or. II. n. 1. A eulogy, written or spoken, in praise of some person or achievement; a formal or elaborate encomium. We give you Thanks, not only for your Presents, but your Compliments too. For this is not so much a making of Presents as Panegyricks. N. Bailey , tr. of Colloquies of Erasmus, I. 198. A stranger preach'd at Euston Church, and fell into a handsome panegyric on my Lord's new building the church. Evelyn, Diary, Sept. 9, 1676. 2. Praise bestowed on some person, action, or character; laudation: as, a tone of exaggerated panegyric . ... Let others bestrew the hearses of the great with panegyric. Goldsmith, Citizen of the World, xliii. Their characteristic excellences drew from him some of his heartiest bursts of eloquent panegyric . Whipple , E . and Rev., II. 10. =Syn. Encomium, etc. See eulogy. panegyrict (pan-e-jir'ik), v. t. [ I had rather be reproach'd for sobriety than care 'd for intemperance, and lampooned for a virtue than panegyr ick'd for a vice. Gentleman Instructed , p. 539. ( Davies .) [ed. Arber, p. 198). panegyrical (pan-e-jir'i-kal), a. [ panegyric Lastett , Timber, p. 74. (c) A flat-dre ed side or face of a stone or log. Pane is the hewn or sawn surface of the log. (d) A panel or division of a work; a sunken part sur rounded by a border. (e) In irrigation, a subdivision of the irrigated surface between a feeder and an outlet-drain. ... The meadows first laid out are watered by contour channels following the inequalities of the ground, but in the more recent parts the ground is disposed in panes of half an acre, served by their respective feeders. Mayhew , London Labour and London Poor, II. 410. (f) The side of a tower, spire, or other building. (g) One of the eight sides of the table of a brilliant-cut diamond, (h) One of the sides of a bolt-head or large nut. Nuts are designated according to the number of sides, as six - paned nuts, eight - paned nuts, etc. - Fulminating pane, or Franklin's pane, an electrical condenser, consisting of a pane of gla with sheets of tin-foil so attached to the two sides as to leave an uncovered margin of an inch or two: used like a Leyden jar in experiments with statical electricity. - Luminous pane, in elect., a sheet of gla covered with pieces of metal foil, generally arranged in some ornamental design, which is rendered luminous by the discharge of an electrical condenser through the foil from point to point. panel (pān), v. t.; pret. and pp. paned , ppr. pan- ing . [ ME.panen ; panel , n.] To insert panes or panels in. See paned . pane2t (pān), n. [ pane , pane , panne , pene, penne, F. panne = Pr. pen a , penna = OSp. pen a, peña, Sp. pan a , a skin, hide, worsted, plush, panna , penna , skin, fur, perhaps a fem. form of L. pannus , a cloth, piece, etc.; otherwise another use of L. penna , feather (cf. MHG. federe , feather, plush): see panel and pen2.] A hide or side of fur; fur. Ermyne and werr, call it pan is , bestly furring, And haldin so without other disc rip cio une. Booke of Precedence (E. E. T. S., extra ser.), i. 100. paño = Pg. It. pan no, cloth, L. pānus ), thread on the bobbin, woof, web. From the L. pannus, besides E. panel, are the diminutive panel, also pawn1 (and pannicle2, counterpane2 ). From L. pan us is ult. E. panicle.] 1. A distinct part or piece of any surface; a division; specifically, a marked division in a wall or fence. Vch pane of that place had thre zatez. Alliterative Poems (ed. Morris), i. 1033. The knyght shewed me a pane of the wall, and said, "Sir, see you yonder parte of the wall which is newer than all the remnant?" Berners, tr. of Froi art's Chron., II. xxii. 21. A pale; a stake. To a pane on ende strongly thai tied, That other ende bare againe the ualey brode, Ful litill it held as thay forth glode. mer, appar.