| • | A part; a portion. |
| • | The distance comprised between the angle of the epaule and the flanked angle. |
| • | A leaf of gold or silver. |
| • | To join or fit together; to unite. |
| • | The betel leaf; also, the masticatory made of the betel leaf, etc. See /etel. |
| • | 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. |
| • | 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. |
| • | A closed vessel for boiling or evaporating. See Vacuum pan, under Vacuum. |
| • | The part of a flintlock which holds the priming. |
| • | The skull, considered as a vessel containing the brain; the upper part of the head; the brainpan; the cranium. |
| • | A recess, or bed, for the leaf of a hinge. |
| • | The hard stratum of earth that lies below the soil. See Hard pan, under Hard. |
| • | A natural basin, containing salt or fresh water, or mud. |
| • | To separate, as gold, from dirt or sand, by washing in a kind of pan. |
| • | To yield gold in, or as in, the process of panning; -- usually with out; as, the gravel panned out richly. |
| • | To turn out (profitably or unprofitably); to result; to develop; as, the investigation, or the speculation, panned out poorly. |
