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▪ I. † ˈpannicle Obs.
Also 5 panikelle, pannycele, 5–7 panicle, 6 pannycle, -ickle, -ikell, -icule, 7 -ikle.
[a. OF. panicle, pannicle, ad. L. pannicul-us small piece of cloth, rag, dim. of pannus cloth; in mod.F. pannicule.]
1. Anat. A membrane or membranous structure in an animal body, as the peritoneum, the membranes of the brain, and esp. the panniculus carnosus (fleshy pannicle), a layer of muscular fibres lying just beneath the skin, specially developed in some quadrupeds.
c1440Lanfranc's Cirurg. 27 After hem comeþ panniclis [Add. MS. pannyceles]—þat is to seie smal clooþ, þat is maad of sutil þredis of senewis, veynes & arteries. Ibid. marg. panikelles. Ibid., Þe panicle of þe heed byndiþ seuene boones. 1545T. Raynalde Byrth Mankynde i. (1634) 70 A pannicle springing and growing forth from the right seate of Peritoneum. 1562W. Bullein Bulwark, Dial. Soarnes 40 The rimme or pannicule, whiche from out foorthe, covereth the scalpe. 1603Holland Plutarch's Mor. 1337 That all their braines should be contained within one and the same membrane or pannicle. 1621Crashaw Fiscus Papalis L iv, Also, there is the very skinne or pannikle that came out of the most holy body of the Virgin Mary, which her sonne Jesus Christ our Lord, in his birth, brought with him. 1656Blount Glossogr. s.v., The fleshy Pannicle. c1720W. Gibson Farrier's Guide i. i. (1738) 5 Underneath the Skin is placed the fleshy Pannicle, which is Muscular. [1871Darwin Desc. Man I. i. 19 The power which many animals, especially horses, possess of moving or twitching their skin..is effected by the panniculus carnosus.]
¶b. App. misused as = brain-pan, skull.
1590Spenser F.Q. iii. v. 23 He..Smote him so rudely on the Pannikell, That to the chin he clefte his head in twaine.
2. Bot. A membranous covering in plants, as the scales investing a leaf-bud.
1671Grew Anat. Plants i. iv. §17 Every Bud, besides its proper Leaves, is covered with divers Leafy Pannicles or Surfoyls. 1736H. Brooke Univ. Beauty iii. 403 The flowers' forensic beauties now admire, The impalement, foliation, down, attire, Couch'd in the pannicle or mantling veil.
▪ II. pannicle
variant of panicle. |