kneeˈ-pan noun

The knee-cap

knee sock noun

A sock reaching to just below the knee

kneeˈ-stop or kneeˈ-swell noun

A lever worked by an organist's knee, for regulating the wind supply of a reed organ, etc

kneesˈ-up noun (informal)

A riotous dance or party

kneeˈ-timber noun

Timber bent into a shape suitable for a knee in shipbuilding, etc

kneeˈ-trembler noun (slang)

1. An act of sexual intercourse in a standing position
2. Loosely, any sexual adventure

kneeˈ-tribute noun (Milton)

The homage of kneeling

bend or bow the knee

To kneel or submit

bring someone to his or her knees

To make someone admit defeat

give or offer a knee (Thackeray, etc)

To act as second in a fight, it being usual for the principal to rest on the second's knee between the rounds

knee-high to a grasshopper (orig US)

Very short, with connotation of extreme youth

on the knees of the gods

Awaiting the decision of fate (after Homer)

sit on someone's knee

To sit on the horizontal surface of a seated person's thighs

pan¹ /pan/

1. Any broad, shallow container used in the home, in the arts or in industry
2. A saucepan
3. Anything of similar shape, such as the upper part of the skull (brain-pan) or the patella (knee-pan)
4. A lavatory bowl
5. A hollow in the ground, a basin, in which water collects in the rainy season, leaving a salt deposit on evaporation
6. A salt pan
7. A saltworks
8. The part of a firelock that holds the priming
9. A hard layer (hard-pan) in or under the soil
10. A small ice floe
11. A hollow metal drum as played in a steel band
12. A panful
13. The face (slang)

1. To wash in a goldminer's pan
2. To obtain by evaporating in a pan
3. To yield
4. To obtain
5. To cook and serve in a pan
6. To review or criticize harshly (informal)

1. To wash earth for gold
2. To yield gold (usu with out)
3. To result, turn out (with out)
4. To come to an end, be exhausted (with out)
5. To cake
6. To enlarge or embellish in speech

panˈful noun (pl panˈfuls)

pannˈikel noun (obsolete)

A pannicle

pannˈikin noun

1. A small metal cup
2. A little pan or saucer
3. Enough to fill a cup

pannˈing noun

1. Washing for gold
2. The gold so obtained
3. Harsh criticism (informal)

panˈcake noun

1. A thin flat round cake of eggs, flour, sugar, and milk, fried in a pan
2. Pancake make-up
3. An aircraft descent made in an emergency with the wheels up and landing flat on the belly of the aircraft (also adjective)

intransitive verb

1. To descend or alight in such a way
2. (of a building) to collapse concertina-like

transitive verb

To cause to make a pancake (descent or landing)

pancake bell noun

A church bell rung on Shrove Tuesday, taken as the signal for pancake-making

Pancake Day or Pancake Tuesday noun

Shrove Tuesday

pancake ice noun

Polar sea ice in thin flat slabs, found as winter draws near

pancake make-up noun

Cosmetic in cake form, moist, or moistened before application

pan drop noun (Scot)

A hard smooth peppermint sweet made in a revolving pan

panˈ-fry transitive verb

To fry in a shallow pan

panˈhandle noun

A strip of territory stretching out from the main body like the handle of a pan

intransitive verb and transitive verb (US)

To beg (from someone) esp on the street

panˈhandler noun

pan loaf noun (Scot)

A loaf baked in an individual tin, with a crust all round, opp to a plain loaf

panˈstick noun

Foundation make-up like pancake make-up but in stick form

flash in the pan

1. A mere flash in the pan of a flintlock without discharge
2. A fitful show of beginning without accomplishing anything
3. A brief success