Pampas cat(Zoöl.), a South American wild cat It has oblique transverse bands of yellow or brown. It is about three and a half feet long. Called also straw cat. — Pampas deer(Zoöl.), a small, reddish- brown, South American deer — Pampas grass(Bot.), a very tall ornamental grass (Gynerium argenteum) with a silvery-white silky panicle. It is a native of the pampas of South America.

Pamper
(Pam"per) v. t. [imp. & p. p. Pampered ; p. pr. & vb. n. Pampering.] [Cf. LG. pampen, slampampen, to live luxuriously, pampe thick pap, and E. pap.]

1. To feed to the full; to feed luxuriously; to glut; as, to pamper the body or the appetite. "A body . . . pampered for corruption." Dr. T. Dwight.

2. To gratify inordinately; to indulge to excess; as, to pamper pride; to pamper the imagination. South.

Pampered
(Pam"pered) a. Fed luxuriously; indulged to the full; hence, luxuriant. "Pampered boughs." Milton. "Pampered insolence." Pope. — Pam"pered*ness, n. Bp. Hall.

Pamperer
(Pam"per*er) n. One who, or that which, pampers. Cowper.

Pam
(Pam) n. [From Palm victory; cf. trump, fr. triumph.] The knave of clubs. [Obs.] Pope.

Pament
(Pa"ment) n. A pavement. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Pampano
(||Pam"pa*no) n. [Sp.] (Zoöl.) Same as Pompano.

Pampas
(Pam"pas) n. pl. [Sp., fr. Peruv. pampa a field, plain.] Vast plains in the central and southern part of the Argentine Republic in South America. The term is sometimes used in a wider sense for the plains extending from Bolivia to Southern Patagonia.
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