panjam (panjam), jam)

[E. Ind.] Cotton long cloth of a kind manufactured in southern India. panjandrum (pan-jan'drum), n. [Also rarely panjandarum; a word used by Samuel Foote in a string of rigmarole as a test for Macklin, who boasted of his memory; or pretension; a burlesque potentate, plenipotentiary, or Great Mogul. panomphean pantry, pantler.] In the inns of court, for merly, a servant who laid the cloths, set the salt-cellars, cut bread, waited on the gentlemen in term-time, blew the horn as a summons to dinner, and rang the bell; now, one of the domestics who wait in the hall of the inns at the time of dinner. Also pannier - man. an. [Eng.] panniered (pan'ierd), a. [ IMG:content-2236.png:[blocks in formation] B. Jonson, Tale of a Tub, ii. 1. nier2. beri. rit is. Pan neuritis endemic a (or epidemic a), be rip ann i kelt, n. See pannicle1 . panniclelt (pan'i-kl), n. [Also pannikell , pan- nikel ; nikel ; pannicle , panicle , pannicula , dim. of panna , a pan: see pan1 .] The bra i pan; the skull; the crown of the head. To him he turned, and with rigor fell Smote him so rudely on the Pannikell The brain That to the chin he clefte his head in twaine. Spenser, F. Q., III. v. 23. IMG:content-2237.png:[blocks in formation] panniculus (pa-nik'ū-lus), n.; pl. panniculi (-lī). [NL., And there were present the Pic ninnies, and the Job lil lies, and the Garyulies, and the grand Panjandrum him-ly, an abbreviated form for panniculus adiposus self. S. Foote , quoted in Forster's Biog. E ays, p. 366. "Well, no, not exactly a nobleman." "Well, some kind of a panjandarum. Hasn't he got one of their titles?" H. James, Jr., Harper's Mag., LXXVII. 86. pank (pangk), v. Same as pant1. [Prov. Eng.] panlogism (pan'lō-jizm), n. [ pan-man (pan'man), n. A man having charge of pans in manufacture. This communication between pan and roaster is closed during the working of the batch by a sliding damper under the ready control of the pan - man. Spons Encyc. Manuf., 1. 108. or panniculus carnosus (see below). - Panniculus adiposus, a layer of subcutaneous areolar ti ue, containing fat in its meshes, connecting the true skin with the subjacent fascia. - Panniculus carnosus, the layer or system of subcutaneous muscles, by which movements of the skin and some superficial parts may be effected, as in the dog or horse. Such muscles are largely developed in most mammals, though only to a slight degree in man, in whom they are represented by the platysma myoides and the other muscles of expre ion, as well as some others in different parts of the body. The panniculus of a horse is that muscle by which the animal shakes flies off its skin. The panniculus of the hedgehog is the orbicularis, by means of which the animal rolls itself up in a ball. The body of the ornithorhynchus is almost entirely invested in a panniculus of extraordinary extent and thickne .