PAN (

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• COMMON

common in various forms to many

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• TEUTONIC
• TEUTONIC (GERMANIC) LANGUAGES

Teutonic

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• LANGUAGES

languages, cf. Ger. Pfanne; it is generally taken to be an

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• EARLY
• EARLY, JUBAL ANDERSON (1816-1894)

early

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• ADAPTATION (from Lat. adaptare. to fit to)

adaptation in a shortened

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• FORM (Lat. forma)

form of

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• LAT

Lat.

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• PATINA (probably from the Latin word for a flat dish, from patere, to lie open; cf. " paten ")

patina, shallow bowl or dish, from patere, to

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• LIE, JONAS LAURITZ EDEMIL (1833—1908)
• LIE, MARIUS SOPHUS (1842–1899)

lie open)  , a term applied to various sorts of open, flat, shallow vessels . Its application has been greatly extended by analogy, e.g. to the upper part of the skull; to variously shaped objects capable of retaining substances, such as that part of the lock in early firearms which held the priming (whence the expression " flash in the pan," for a premature and futile effort); or the circular metal dish in which gold is separated from gravel, earth, &c., by shaking or washing (whence the phrase " to pan out," to obtain a good result) . Small ice-floes are also called " pans," and the name is given to a hard substratum of soil which acts as a floor to the surface soil and is usually impervious to water .