In mining, to wash with the pan, as gravel or sands for the purpose of separating the gold or other thing of value they may contain: often with out.
To secure; catch; obtain.
To make an appearance or to come to view, as gold in a miner's pan when washed from impurities; hence to show a result; turn out more or less to one's satisfaction: followed by out.
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In anc. Gr. myth., the god of pastures, forests, and flocks.
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A square of framing in half-timbered houses. Gwilt.
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A leaf of gold or silver.
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A broad shallow vessel of tin, iron, or other metal, used for various domestic purposes: as, a frying-pan; a saucepan; a milk-pan.
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An open vessel used in the arts and manufactures for boiling, evaporating, etc.: as, a sugar-pan; a salt-pan. The name is also applied to closed vessels used for similar purposes: as, a vacuum-pan.
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In metallurgy, a pan-shaped vessel, usually made of cast-iron, from 4 to 6 feet in diameter and 3 or 4 feet deep, in which the ores of silver which have already undergone the stamping process are ground to a fine pulp and amalgamated, with the addition of various chemicals, generally sulphate of copper and salt.
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In tin-plate manuf., a cold pot with a grating at the bottom, in which tinned iron-plate is put on edge to drain and cool. It is the fourth in the series of iron pots used in tin-plate manufacture.
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The part of a flint-lock which holds the priming, communicating with the charge by means of the touch-hole. See cut under flint-lock.
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Anything hollow shaped somewhat like a pan; hence, the skull; the upper part of the head; the cranium. Compare brainpan.
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A pond or depression for evaporating salt water to make salt.
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A natural pond of any size containing fresh or salt water, or only mud.
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Consolidated material underlying the soil: used (especially in Scotland) for hard-pan.
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In carpentry, the socket for a hinge.
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In the arctic seas, a large heavy piece of floe-ice.
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The broad posterior extremity of the lower jaw of a whale: a whalers' term.
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A betel-leaf in which an areca-nut is wrapped to form a masticatory. See betel, areca-nut.
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In mining, a hollow in the ground where the neck of a volcano formerly existed.
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An element in many words of Greek origin, meaning ‘all’, ‘universal.’
To broil or bake in a pan.
To pour with a pan.
To look for gold, using the method of washing the earth or crushed rock in the pan.
In agriculture, to harden and cake from the effect of hot sunshine following rain: said of the soil.
To join; close together.