Pan-American Congress

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• Pan-American

  ·adj Of or pertaining to both North and South America. ...

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• Congress

  ·noun A gathering or assembly; a conference. II. Congress ·noun A sudden encounter; a collision; a ...

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• congress

  This term is applied by us especially to three differently constituted bodies of representatives of ...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• American

  ·adj Of or pertaining to the United States. II. American ·adj Of or pertaining to America; as, the ...

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• Pan

  Pān, Pānŏs (acc. Pāna), m., I = Πάν, Pan , the god of the woods and of shepherds , the son of Mer...

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• Pan

  Pān Pānos, acc.Pāna, m , Πάν, Pan, son of Mercury, god of woods and shepherds, often represented as...

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• Pan

  ·noun A part; a portion. II. Pan ·noun A leaf of gold or silver. III. Pan ·noun A recess, or bed, ...

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• Pan-

  ·- ·Alt. of Panto-. ...

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• Pan

  A vessel of metal or earthenware used in culinary operations; a cooking-pan or frying-pan frequently...

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• pan

  or Pan-wash, Pan-out, Pan-off verbs, to wash the dirt in the panfor gold. Some of the forms, certai...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• pan

  to pan, to close, join together, or agree. N. ...

  A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose

• pan

  In fire-arms, is a small iron cavity of the old flint lock, adjacent to the touch-hole of the barrel...

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• Pan

  Of the six words so rendered in the Authorized Version, two seem to imply a shallow pan or plate, su...

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• American plan

  ·add. ·- In hotels, aplan upon which guests pay for both room and board by the day, week, or other c...

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• Anti-American

  ·adj Opposed to the Americans, their aims, or interests, or to the genius of American institutions. ...

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• Hyphenated American

  ·add. ·- An American who is referred to by a hyphenated term with the first word indicating an origi...

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• Irish American

  ·add. ·- A native of Ireland who has become an American citizen; also, a child or descendant of such...

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• Pan-Americanism

  ·add. ·noun The principle or advocacy of a political alliance or union of all the states of America....

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• Pan-Anglican

  ·adj Belonging to, or representing, the whole Church of England; used less strictly, to include the ...

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• Shwan-pan

  ·noun ·see Schwan-pan. ...

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• Ish-pan

  hid; broken in two ...

  Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary

• Frying-pan

  (Heb. marhesheth, a "boiler"), a pot for boiling meat (Lev. 2:7; 7:9). ...

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• slater's pan

  The gaol at Kingston in Jamaica: Slater is the deputy Provost-marshal. ...

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• warming-pan

  A large old-fashioned watch. A Scotch warming-pan; a female bedfellow. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• clay-pan

  n. name given, especially in the dryinterior of Australia, to a slight depression of the groundvary...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• pan-out

  See pan ...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• pan-wash

  See pan ...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• pan-off

  See pan ...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• pit-pan

  A flat-bottomed, trough-like canoe, used in the Spanish Main and in the West Indies. ...

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• American Protective Association

  ·add. ·- A secret organization in the United States, formed in Iowa in 1887, ostensibly for the prot...

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• Frying Pan Alley

  West out of Red Cross Street, in Cripplegate Ward Without (O. and M. 1677-Boyle, 1799). The site is...

  A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.

• Frying Pan Yard

  West out of the Minories. In Portsoken Ward (O. and M. 1677-Hatton, 1708). Rebuilt in the 18th cent...

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• cat in pan

  To turn cat in pan, to change sides or parties; supposed originally to have been to turn CATE or CAK...

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• scotch warming pan

  A wench; also a fart. ...

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• Crooked Frying Pan Alley

  In Wood Street, Cheapside (P.C. 1732). Not named in the maps. ...

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• Straight Frying Pan Alley

  In Great Wood Street (P.C. 1732). Not named in the maps. ...

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• to flash in the pan

  To fail of success. A metaphor borrowed from a gun, which, after being primed and ready to be discha...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• flash in the pan

  An expressive metaphor, borrowed from the false fire of a musket, meaning to fail of success after p...

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