panel, panele, pannel

[O. Fr. panel (Fr. panneau ), from Low Lat. panellus, dim in. from Lat. pannus =a piece of cloth, a rag.] [PANE (1), s.] I. Ordinary Language: 1. A piece or square, whether of wood, cloth, or parchment, but originally of cloth. 2. A piece of cloth on a horse's back to serve as a sort of saddle. 3. A pad or packing beneath a saddle to protect the horse's back from contact with the tree. 4. A kind of rustic saddle. "A panel and wanty, pack-saddle and ped." Tu er: Five Hundred Points. 5. An area on a wall, ., sunk below the general face of the surrounding work; a compartment in a sunken ceiling, soffit, bay, or wainscot. 6. A pane. IMG:content-0605.png:[blocks in formation] (1) A depre ed part of the sides within a rela tively elevated bordering portion. (2) A space on the back between bands. 2. Joinery: The sunken portion of a door, wainscoting, head-board of a bedstead, . Its edges are mortised into the surrounding frame. 3. Law : (1) A parchment or schedule containing the names of persons qualified and summoned by the sheriff to serve on juries. "He returns the names of the jurors in a panel [a little pane, or oblong piece of parchment] annexed to the writ."-Black stone: Commentaries , bk. iii., ch. 23. (2) The jury. 4. Masonry: A face of a hewn stone. 5. Mining: (1) A heap of dre ed ore ready for sale. (2) A system of coal-mining in which the projected winning is divided into large, square allotments, divided by ma ive walls of coal, instead of placing the whole working in one undivided arrangement. The pillars are left very large, the marine; gō, pot, IMG:content-0606.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-0607.png:[blocks in formation] derived, depends on their affinity for and union with other units or cells previously developed in the due order of growth."-Darwin: Descent of Man (ed. 2d), p. 228. păng-ful, a. [Eng.pang, s.; -ful ( 1 ).] Tortured, suffering. notable since 1750 are as follows: 1763 Amsterdam. Heavy failures in Holland, England, 1773 Holland. Failures exceed £10,000,000 sterling 1793 England, owing to French war. Government i ued 1799 England. Panic at Liverpool. Government lent $2,500,000 in Exchequer bills on goods. Eighty-two failures at Hamburg. Prepared a light and pangle dart." Byron: Poem to Thyrza. 1831 Calcutta. Failures, $75,000,000, 1837 United States. "Wild cat" crisis. 1847 England. Owing to exce ive railway speculation. Failures, $100,000,000. Discount rate, 13 per cent. 1857 United States. Failures $555,000,000. Minor crisis in England. 1866 London. Owing to over-speculation, Over end, Gur- ney & Co. and many other bankers failed. Total failures, above $500,000,000. The last of the serious panics. 1873 United States. Heavy failures in New York and elsewhere. 1884 Grant & Ward and Marine Bank failures. 1885 London. Much temporary disturbance owing to ex- IMG:content-0608.png:[blocks in formation] The American Dictionary and Cyclopedia paniculate păn-ic-u-late, păn-ic-u-lat-ěd, adj . [Mod Lat. paniculatus , from Lat. panicula =a panicle.] Bot.: The same as PANICLED (q. v.). păn-ic-u-late-ly, adv. [Eng. paniculate; -ly.] Bot.: So as to form or resemble a panicle.