a part; a portion.-the distance comprised between the angle of the epaule and the flanked angle.-a leaf of gold or silver.-to join or fit together; to unite.-the betel leaf; also, the masticatory made of the betel leaf, etc. see /etel.-the god of shepherds, guardian of bees, and patron of fishing and hunting. he is usually represented as having the head and trunk of a man, with the legs, horns, and tail of a goat, and as playing on the shepherd's pipe, which he is said to have invented.-a shallow, open dish or vessel, usually of metal, employed for many domestic uses, as for setting milk for cream, for frying or baking food, etc.; also employed for various uses in manufacturing.-a closed vessel for boiling or evaporating. see vacuum pan, under vacuum.-the part of a flintlock which holds the priming.-the skull, considered as a vessel containing the brain; the upper part of the head; the brainpan; the cranium.-a recess, or bed, for the leaf of a hinge.-the hard stratum of earth that lies below the soil. see hard pan, under hard.-a natural basin, containing salt or fresh water, or mud.-to separate, as gold, from dirt or sand, by washing in a kind of pan.-to yield gold in, or as in, the process of panning; -- usually with out; as, the gravel panned out richly.-to turn out (profitably or unprofitably); to result; to develop; as, the investigation, or the speculation, panned out poorly.