Defn: Same as Pompano.
PAMPAS
Pam"pas, n. pl. Etym: [Sp., fr. Peruv. pampa a field, plain.]
Defn: Vast plains in the central and southern part of the Argentine Republic in South America. The term is sometimes used in a wider sense for the plains extending from Bolivia to Southern Patagonia. Pampas cat (Zoöl.), a South American wild cat (Felis pajeros). It has oblique transverse bands of yellow or brown. It is about three and a half feet long. Called also straw cat. — Pampas deer (Zoöl.), a small, reddish-brown, South American deer (Cervus, or Blastocerus, campestris). — Pampas grass (Bot.), a very tall ornamental grass (Gynerium argenteum) with a silvery-white silky panicle. It is a native of the pampas of South America.
PAMPER
Pam"per, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Pampered; p. pr. & vb. n. Pampering.]
Etym: [Cf. LG. pampen, slampampen, to live luxuriously, pampe thick
pap, and E. pap.]
1. To feed to the full; to feed luxuriously; to glut; as, to pamper the body or the appetite. "A body . . . pampered for corruption." Dr. T. Dwight.
2. To gratify inordinately; to indulge to excess; as, to pamper pride; to pamper the imagination. South.
PAMPERED
Pam"pered, a.
Defn: Fed luxuriously; indulged to the full; hence, luxuriant.
"Pampered boughs." Milton. "Pampered insolence." Pope.
— Pam"pered*ness, n. Bp. Hall.
PAMPERER
Pam"per*er, n.
Defn: One who, or that which, pampers. Cowper.