Pander
(Pan"der) n. [From Pandarus, a leader in the Trojan army, who is represented by Chaucer and
Shakespeare as having procured for Troilus the possession of Cressida.]
1. A male bawd; a pimp; a procurer.
Thou art the pander to her dishonor.
Shak. 2. Hence, one who ministers to the evil designs and passions of another.
Those wicked panders to avarice and ambition.
Burke. Pander
(Pan"der), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Pandered ; p. pr. & vb. n. Pandering.] To play the pander
for.
Pander
(Pan"der), v. i. To act the part of a pander.
Panderage
(Pan"der*age) n. The act of pandering.
Panderism
(Pan"der*ism) n. The employment, arts, or practices of a pander. Bp. Hall.
Panderly
(Pan"der*ly), a. Having the quality of a pander. "O, you panderly rascals." Shak.
Pandermite
(Pan*der"mite) n. [From Panderma, a port on the Black Sea from which it is exported.]
(Min.) A hydrous borate of lime, near priceite.
Panderous
(Pan"der*ous) a. Of or relating to a pander; characterizing a pander.
Pandiculated
(Pan*dic"u*la`ted) a. [See Pandiculation.] Extended; spread out; stretched.
Pandiculation
(Pan*dic`u*la"tion) n. [L. pandiculari to stretch one's self, fr. pandere to spread out.] A
stretching and stiffening of the trunk and extremities, as when fatigued and drowsy.
Pandit
(Pan"dit) n. See Pundit.
Pandoor
(Pan"door) n. Same as Pandour.
Pandora
(Pan*do"ra) n. [L., fr. Gr. Pandw`ra; pa^s, pa^n, all + dw^ron a gift.]
1. (Class. Myth.) A beautiful woman whom Jupiter caused Vulcan to make out of clay in order to punish
the human race, because Prometheus had stolen the fire from heaven. Jupiter gave Pandora a box
containing all human ills, which, when the box was opened, escaped and spread over the earth. Hope
alone remained in the box. Another version makes the box contain all the blessings of the gods, which
were lost to men when Pandora opened it.
2. (Zoöl.) A genus of marine bivalves, in which one valve is flat, the other convex.
Pandore
(Pan"dore) n. [F. See Bandore.] An ancient musical instrument, of the lute kind; a bandore.
[Written also pandoran.]
Pandour
(Pan"dour) n. One of a class of Hungarian mountaineers serving in the Austrian army; — so
called from Pandur, a principal town in the region from which they originally came. [Written also pandoor.]
Her whiskered pandours and her fierce hussars.
Campbell. Pandowdy
(Pan*dow"dy) n. A deep pie or pudding made of baked apples, or of sliced bread and apples
baked together, with no bottom crust.
