pam pin i form (pam pin i form)

[= F. pam pin i for me = It. pam pin i for me, wrapper or cover. Paunflettes and bookys. Pam pro dactyl ous Foot of a Coly. ponne , panne , a pan, also in comp. heáfod - panne , the skull (see headpan , and cf. brainpan ) , = OFries. panne , ponne = MD. panne , D. pan = MLG. LG. panne = OHG. panna , phanna , pfan- na , MHG. phanne , pfanne , G. pfanne , a pan, = Icel. panna = Sw. panna = Dan. pande , a pan, also the forehead; = Ir. panna = W. pan , a pan; panna , patina , a shallow bowl or dish (= Gr. πατάνη , Sicilian βατάνη , a flat dish), per- haps patere , be open: see patent1 . Cf. paten1 , patin1 , patina , patella , etc.] 1. A broad shal- low ve el of tin, iron, or other metal, used for various domestic purposes: as, a frying - pan ; a saucepan ; a milk - pan . And bringeth eek with yow a bolle or a panne , Ful of water. Chaucer , Canon's Yeoman's Tale, L. 199. Models of Herculanean pots and pans . Cowper , Prog. of Err., 1. 398. 2. An open ve el used in the arts and manufactures for boiling, evaporating, etc.: as, a sugar - pan; a salt - pan. The name is also applied to closed ve els used for similar purposes: as, a vacuum- pan.-3. In metal., a pan shaped ve el, usually made of cast-iron, from 4 to 6 feet in diameter and 3 or 4 feet deep, in which the ores of silver which have already undergone the stamping proce are ground to a fine pulp and amalgamated, with the addition of various chemicals, generally sulphate of copper and salt. This proce , which is a kind of modification of the patio proce , is extensively used in the mills on the Com stock lodes, and is frequently called the Washoe proce . 4. In tin - plate manuf., a cold pot with a grating at the bottom, in which tinned iron-plate is put on edge to drain and cool. It is the fourth in the series of iron pots used in tin-plate manufacture. E. H. Knight.-5. The part of a flint-lock which holds the priming, communicating with the charge by means of the touch-hole. See cut under flint -lock. Most of our attempts to fire the gunpowder in the pan of the pistol succeeded not. Boyle, Works, I. 31. "Ah!" said my grandsire, as he shook Some powder in his pan , "What could this lovely creaturė do Against a desperate man!" O. W. Holmes, My Aunt. 6. Anything hollow shaped somewhat like a pan; hence, the skull; the the upper part of the head; the cranium. Compare brainpan . Not oonly thou, but every myghty man, Though he were shorn ful hye upon his pan , Sholde have a wyf. Chaucer, Prol. to Monk's Tale, 1. 64. 7. A pond or depre ion for evaporating salt water to make salt.-8. A natural pond of any size containing fresh or salt water, or only mud. [South Africa.]-9. Consolidated material underlying the soil: used (especially in Scotland) for hard - pan.-10. In carp., the socket for a hinge. ge. E. H. Knight.-11. In the arctic seas, a large heavy piece of floe-ice. Large pieces of the floe ice, called pans by the whalers, were forced aside or rammed, the blows giving a heavy shock to every one on board. Schley and Soley , Rescue of Greely, p. 161. 12. The broad posterior extremity of the lower jaw of a whale: a whalers' term. Canes made full length from the ivory of the pan of the sperm whale, turned and polished, with a hand-piece of the same material, and a ferrule of copper or perhaps silFisheries of U. S. , V. ii. 232. IMG:content-2213.jpg:[graphic] ver. A cat in the pan. See cat1.- A flash in the pan, a fluff in the pant. See flash1, fluff 2. — Annular pan. See annular. Blow-up pan. See blow - up. To flash in the pan. See flash 1. To savor of the pan or of the frying-pant, to savor of heresy; betray its (or one's) origin. In the which although there be many things that sa voureth of the pan , and also he himself was afterward a pan bishop of Rome, yet, I dare say, the papists would glory but a little to see such books go forth in English. Bp. Ridley, in Bradford's Letters (Parker Soc., 1853), II. 160. To turn a cat-in-pan. See cat1 and clearing -pan. pan1 (pan), v.; pret. and pp. panned, ppr. pan ning. [ The crew panned about 10,000 seals, but did not suc Fisheries of U. S., V. ii. 477. ceed in putting them on board, because of an accident to the propeller. Panned out, exhausted; bankrupt. [Slang, western U.S.] - To pan out, to yield or afford, in any sense. [Colloq.] II. in trans. To make an appearance or to come to view, as gold in a miner's pan when washed from impurities; hence, to show a result; turn out more or le to one's satisfaction: followed by out. [U. S.]