pantofle, pantoufle, pantocle

[Fr. pantoufle; Ital. pantofola =a slipper; Ger. pantoffel, bantoffel, from Up. Ger. bandtafel a wooden sole ( tafel ), with a leather string ( band ), to put the foot through; Dut. pantoffel, pattoffel; Low Ger. & Sw. toffel; Dan. töffel; Icel. tapla.] A slipper for the foot. "Melpomene has on her feet her high cothurn or tragick pantofles of red velvet and gold, beset with pearls." Peacham: On Drawing. păn' - tổ-grăph, păn-ta-graph, *pěn-těgraph, s . [Gr. pas (gen it. pantos ) = all, and graphō to write, to draw.) An instrument used in copying plans, maps, and other drawings, so that the copy may be either similar to, or larger, or smaller than the original. The principle of the pantograph is all that could be desired in the way of perfection; but it is found in practice, on account of the numermechanical construction, that it is far from being ous joints and the nece ary imperfections in its an accurate instrument. The pantograph is principally useful to the draughtsman in enabling him to mark off the principal points in a reduced copy, through which the lines may afterward be drawn by the usual methods of construction. For this purpose it is found to work succe fully. păn-tog'-ra-phy, s. [PANTOGRAPH.] A general description; an entire view of a subject.