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Pan

noun

Cooking utensil consisting of a wide metal vessel. Synonym: cooking pan.

(Greek mythology) god of fields and woods and shepherds and flocks; represented as a man with goat's legs and horns and ears; identified with Roman Sylvanus or Faunus. Synonym: goat god.

Shallow container made of metal.

Chimpanzees; more closely related to Australopithecus than to other pongids. Synonym: genus Pan.

verb

(past & past part. panned; pres. part. panning)

Make a sweeping movement.

Wash dirt in a pan to separate out the precious minerals. Synonyms: pan off, pan out.

Express a totally negative opinion of. Synonyms: tear apart, trash.

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"Pan" Quotes from Famous Books

... come from?" she asked. They explained, and she seemed to do ten things at once, while they were speaking. Louis was irresistibly reminded of a music-hall prestidigitateur. She was giving directions for more chops to be put into the frying-pan, clean water to be fetched from the creek and put in a kerosene tin in "Jerry's room," a cloth laid over the bare boards of the already prepared table, and a tin of jam found from the store. Marcella felt at home at once. It was the simple, ...

— Captivity • M. Leonora Eyles

... am now. He had some extra work on hand that night which he expected to detain him till eleven or a quarter after. Supper was to be ready at a quarter after. To surprise him I had beaten up some biscuits, and I had just put them in the pan when I heard the clock strike the hour. Afraid that he would come before they were baked, I thrust the pan into the oven and ran to the front door to look out. It was snowing very hard, and the road looked white and empty, but as I stood there a horse and cutter came in sight, which, ...

— The House of the Whispering Pines • Anna Katharine Green

... manner M. Soyer calculated he would be able to give one meal every day to at least five thousand persons, from an establishment the size of the one at the Royal Barracks. At the entrance, in the centre, was the weighing machine. There was what was called a glaze-pan over the steam boiler capable of holding three hundred gallons, and, at the end, an oven to bake one hundred weight of bread at a time, and all heated by the same fire. Round the two supports of the roof were circular tin boxes for the condiments. Seven feet from the ground at each corner was ...

— The History of the Great Irish Famine of 1847 (3rd ed.) (1902) - With Notices Of Earlier Irish Famines • John O'Rourke

... all in a tin pan," said Marjorie, "and put the box on top of them to keep them dry, and then set them all off ...

— Marjorie's Vacation • Carolyn Wells

... enough candles. Then leave all the rest of the cooking outfit to your cook and trust in Providence. (If you do not approve of Providence, a full aluminum cooking outfit can be bought so that one pot or pan nests in the other, the whole very ...

— A Woman Tenderfoot • Grace Gallatin Seton-Thompson

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