meaning of pant2
1. To separate, as gold, from dirt or sand, by washing in a kind of pan.
2. To yield gold in, or as in, the process of panning; -- usually with out; as, the gravel panned out richly.
3. To turn out (profitably or unprofitably); to result; to develop; as, the investigation, or the speculation, panned out poorly.
4. A part; a portion.
5. The distance comprised between the angle of the epaule and the flanked angle.
6. A leaf of gold or silver.
7. To join or fit together; to unite.
8. The betel leaf; also, the masticatory made of the betel leaf, etc. See /etel.
9. 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 shepherds pipe, which he is said to have invented.
10. 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.
11. A closed vessel for boiling or evaporating. See Vacuum pan, under Vacuum.
12. The part of a flintlock which holds the priming.
13. The skull, considered as a vessel containing the brain; the upper part of the head; the brainpan; the cranium.
14. A recess, or bed, for the leaf of a hinge.
15. The hard stratum of earth that lies below the soil. See Hard pan, under Hard.
16. A natural basin, containing salt or fresh water, or mud.
17. chimpanzees; more closely related to Australopithecus than to other pongids
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