Pandit – Parallels
Pandit
or PUNDIT, a learned Brahman; one versed in the Sanskrit PANDORA language, and in the sciences, laws, and religion of the Hindus.
Pangborn
GEORGIA WOOD, an American writer; born in Malone, N. Y., in 1872. Graduated from Packard Institute in 1894, and in the same year married H. L. Pangborn. She wrote "Roman Biznet" (1902); "Interventions" (1911). She was a frequent contributor to magazines. a
Panic
a sudden flight or alarm, especially one without any real cause or ground; sudden flight or terror inspired by some trifling cause. A commercial panic, a panic produced in commercial circles. When such a panic takes place a run commences on the banks, the price of securities falls, and other abnormal commercial conditions ensue.
Panicle
in botany, a kind of inflorescence, in which the flowers are arranged on the lengthened axis, with branched peduncles and lengthened centripetal clusters of flowers.
Pantellaria
a volcanic island in the Mediterranean, 36 miles in circumference, and lying 60 miles S. W. of the Sicilian coast. In the chief town (Pantellaria) is a great convict prison.
Panther
one of the Felidæ or cat tribe, of a yellow color, diversified with roundish black spots, a native of Asia and Africa. The name panther (in vulgar language painter) is given to the puma in America.
Papilio
a butterfly; in entomology, the typical genus of the family Papilionidæ. It has long antennæ and very short palpi. About 500 species are known, many of them from Africa and the Eastern Archipelago.
PAPUA. See NEW GUINEA.
Parable
a comparison, a similitude; specifically a fable or allegorical relation or representation of something real in life or nature, from which a moral is drawn for instruction. An alor mystical saying or expression; a proverb.
Parabola
in conic sections, a plane curve of such a form that if from any point in the curve one straight line be drawn to a given fixed point, the other perpendicular to a straight line given in PARACELSUS position, these two straight lines will al ways be equal to one another.
Paradoxes
COUNTRY OF. Holland, where the ocean is higher than land.
Paradise Fish
a popular name swelling separated by large for Macropus viridiauratus (lacépède), plains, dotted with palms. There are from the East Indian Archipelago. Its mountains in the N. E. and N. W. corcoloration is brilliant and it is frequently found in aquaria.
Parallels
in astronomy and geography small circles of the celestial sphere or of the surface of the earth which are parallel to the equator, having a common pole with the latter. On the earth's surface they are generally called parallels of latitude, and in the sky parallels of declination.