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   Pan, n. [OE. See 2d Pane.]
   A part; a portion.
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   (Fort.) The distance comprised between the angle of the epaule and the flanked angle.
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   [Perh. a different word.] A leaf of gold or silver.
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   Pan, v. t. & i. [Cf. F. pan skirt, lappet, L. pannus a cloth, rag, W. panu to fur, to full.] To join or fit together; to unite. [Obs.]
   Halliwell.
   
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   Pan , n. [Hind. pān, Skr. parna leaf.] The betel leaf; also, the masticatory made of the betel leaf, etc.  See Betel.
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   Pan , prop. n. [L., fr. Gr. .] (Gr. Myth.) 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 (also called the pipes of Pan), which he is said to have invented.
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   Pan, n. [OE. panne, AS. panne; cf. D. pan, G. pfanne, OHG. pfanna, Icel., Sw., LL., & Ir. panna, of uncertain origin; cf. L. patina, E. paten.]
   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 bowl or a pan.”  
   Chaucer.
   
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   (Manuf.) A closed vessel for boiling or evaporating. See Vacuum pan, under Vacuum.
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   The part of a flintlock which holds the priming.
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   The skull, considered as a vessel containing the brain; the upper part of the head; the brainpan; the cranium.
   Chaucer.
   
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   (Carp.) A recess, or bed, for the leaf of a hinge.
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   The hard stratum of earth that lies below the soil. See Hard pan, under Hard.
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   A natural basin, containing salt or fresh water, or mud.
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   Flash in the pan. See under Flash. -- To savor of the pan, to suggest the process of cooking or burning; in a theological sense, to be heretical.
   Ridley. Southey.
   
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   Pan, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Panned ; p. pr. & vb. n. Panning.]
   (Mining) To separate, as gold, from dirt or sand, by washing in a kind of pan. [U. S.]
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   We . . . witnessed the process of cleaning up and panning out, which is the last process of separating the pure gold from the fine dirt and black sand.
   Gen. W. T. Sherman.
   
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   To criticise (a drama or literary work) harshly.
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   Pan, v. i.
   (Mining) To yield gold in, or as in, the process of panning; -- usually with out; as, the gravel panned out richly.
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   To turn out (profitably or unprofitably); to result; to develop; as, the investigation, or the speculation, panned out poorly. [Slang, U. S.]
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   Pan, v. t. & i. (Cinematography) To scan (a movie camera), usu. in a horizontal direction, to obtain a panoramic effect; also, to move the camera so as to keep the subject in view.
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