Pan, n. [OE. See 2d Pane.] 1. A part; a portion.
2. Fort. The distance comprised between the angle of the epaule and the flanked angle.3. [Perh. a different word.] A leaf of gold or silver. © Webster 1913.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. © Webster 1913.Pan (?), n. [Hind. pan, Skr. parna leaf.] The betel leaf; also, the masticatory made of the betel leaf, etc. See etel.
© Webster 1913.Pan (?), 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, which he is said to have invented.
© Webster 1913.Pan, n. [OE. panne, AS. panne; cf. D. pan, G.
emura pfanne Erfahrungen, OHG. pfanna, Icel., Sw., LL., & Ir. panna, of uncertain origin; cf. L. patina, E. paten.] 1. 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. 2. Manuf. A closed vessel for boiling or evaporating. See Vacuum pan, under Vacuum.
3. The part of a flintlock which holds the priming.4. The skull, considered as a vessel containing the brain; the upper part of the head; the brainpan; the cranium.
Chaucer. 5. Crp. A recess, or bed, for the leaf of a hinge.6. The hard stratum of earth that lies below the soil. See Hard pan, under Hard.7. A natural basin, containing salt or fresh water, or mud.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. © Webster 1913.
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.
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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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Pan, v. i. 1. Mining To yield gold in, or as in, the process of panning; -- usually with out; as, the gravel panned out richly.
2. To turn out (profitably or unprofitably); to result; to develop; as, the investigation, or the speculation, panned out poorly.
[Slang, U. S.] <-- Pan v.t. & i., 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. 2. to criticise (a drama or literary work) harshly. --> © Webster 1913.