Chapter Pamperize to Panegyrist of P by Webster's Dictionary (1913 Edition)

Pancreatic
(Pan`cre*at"ic) a. [Cf. F. pancréatique.] (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the pancreas; as, the pancreatic secretion, digestion, ferments.

Pancreatic juice (Physiol.), a colorless alkaline fluid secreted intermittently by the pancreatic gland. It is one of the most important of the digestive fluids, containing at least three distinct ferments, trypsin, steapsin and an amylolytic ferment, by which it acts upon all three classes of food stuffs. See Pancreas.

Pancreatin
(Pan"cre*a*tin) n. [See Pancreas.] (Physiol. Chem.) One of the digestive ferments of the pancreatic juice; also, a preparation containing such a ferment, made from the pancreas of animals, and used in medicine as an aid to digestion.

By some the term pancreatin is restricted to the amylolytic ferment of the pancreatic juice, by others it is applied to trypsin, and by still others to steapsin.

Pancy
(Pan"cy) n. See Pansy. [Obs.] Dryden.

Panda
(Pan"da) n. (Zoöl.) A small Asiatic mammal (Ailurus fulgens) having fine soft fur. It is related to the bears, and inhabits the mountains of Northern India.

Pandanus
(||Pan*da"nus) n. [NL., fr. Malay pandan.] (Bot.) A genus of endogenous plants. See Screw pine.

Pandar
(Pan"dar) n. Same as Pander. "Seized by the pandar of Appius." Macaulay.

Pandarism
(Pan"dar*ism) n. Same as Panderism. Swift.

Pandarize
(Pan"dar*ize) v. i. To pander. [Obs.]

Pandarous
(Pan"dar*ous) a. Panderous. [Obs.]

Pandean
(Pan*de"an), a. [From 4th Pan.] Of or relating to the god Pan.

Pandean pipes, a primitive wind instrument, consisting of a series of short hollow reeds or pipes, graduated in length by the musical scale, and fastened together side by side; a syrinx; a mouth organ; — said to have been invented by Pan. Called also Pan's pipes and Panpipes.

Pandect
(Pan"dect) n. [L. pandecta, pandectes, Gr. all-receiving, all-containing; all + to receive: cf. F. pandectes, pl.]

1. A treatise which comprehends the whole of any science.

[Thou] a pandect mak'st, and universal book.

Donne.

2. pl. The digest, or abridgment, in fifty books, of the decisions, writings, and opinions of the old Roman jurists, made in the sixth century by direction of the emperor Justinian, and forming the leading compilation of the Roman civil law. Kent.

Pandemic
(Pan*dem"ic) a. [L. pandemus, Gr. all + the people: cf. F. pandémique.] Affecting a whole people or a number of countries; everywhere epidemic. — n. A pandemic disease. Harvey.

Pandemonium
(Pan`de*mo"ni*um) n. [NL., from Gr. all + a demon.]

1. The great hall or council chamber of demons or evil spirits. Milton.

2. An utterly lawless, riotous place or assemblage.