PAN

noun a part; a portion.

2. pan ·noun a leaf of gold or silver.

3. pan ·noun a recess, or bed, for the leaf of a hinge.

4. pan ·noun the part of a flintlock which holds the priming.

5. pan ·noun a natural basin, containing salt or fresh water, or mud.

6. pan ·vt to separate, as gold, from dirt or sand, by washing in a kind of pan.

7. pan ·vt & ·vi to join or fit together; to unite.

8. pan ·noun the distance comprised between the angle of the epaule and the flanked angle.

9. pan ·noun a closed vessel for boiling or evaporating. ·see vacuum pan, under vacuum.

10. pan ·noun the hard stratum of earth that lies below the soil. ·see hard pan, under hard.

11. pan ·noun the betel leaf; also, the masticatory made of the betel leaf, ·etc. ·see /etel.

12. pan ·vi to yield gold in, or as in, the process of panning;

— usually with out; as, the gravel panned out richly.

13. pan ·noun the skull, considered as a vessel containing the brain; the upper part of the head; the brainpan; the cranium.

14. pan ·vi to turn out (profitably or unprofitably); to result; to develop; as, the investigation, or the speculation, panned out poorly.

15. pan ·noun a shallow, open dish or vessel, usually of metal, employed for many domestic uses, as for setting milk for cream, for frying or baking food, ·etc.; also employed for various uses in manufacturing.

xvi. pan ·noun the god of shepherds, guardian of bees, and patron of fishing and hunting. he is usually represented as having the head and trunk of a man, with the legs, horns, and tail of a goat, and as playing on the shepherd's pipe, which he is said to have invented.