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A piece, especially a rectangular piece, as of cloth, parchment, or wood.
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Formerly, the slip of parchment containing the names of those who were summoned to serve upon a jury; a jury-list. See def. 3.
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In painting, a piece of wood, generally of oak, chestnut, or white poplar, on which a picture is painted as on canvas; also, a picture painted on such a piece of wood. The earliest paintings in oil were generally executed on panels, which were composed of various pieces of wood cemented together.
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A surface or compartment of a surface more or less distinct from others: a term used more especially in architecture and the constructive arts.
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In joinery, a tympanum or thin piece of wood, framed or received in a groove by two upright pieces or styles, and two transverse pieces or rails: as, the panels of doors, window-shutters, etc. See cut under door.
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In masonry, one of the faces of a hewn stone.
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In dress-making, an ornament of a skirt, consisting usually of a broad piece of stuff appliqué, or of embroidery, or the like, making a definite stripe on each side different from the rest of the skirt, leaving part of the original material between.
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In bookbinding, a part of the side depressed below the general surface, or the space on the back between two bands.
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In coal-mining, a separate compartment or area of a coal-seam, divided from the adjacent ones by thick masses or ribs of coal, 40, 50, or even 60 yards wide. Such panels may measure 300 feet or more on a side.
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In law: The persons summoned to sit on a jury.
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The jury selected for the trial of a cause.
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In scots law, the accused person in a criminal action from the time of his appearance.
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The stomach of a hawk.
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Milit., a carriage for the transportation of a mortar and its bed.
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In sporting, a rail in a post-and-rail fence.
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In carpentry, a panel whose longer dimension is horizontal.
To place a panel or saddlecloth on; saddle.
To form with panels; divide into or decorate with panels: as, to panel a wainscot; to panel a dress.
To decorate with medallions or spaces of any shape framed and occupied by a design different from that of the rest of the ground.
In telegraphy, to arrange in parallel, as wires.
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A heap of dressed ore.