Defn: A beautiful woman (all-gifted), whom Jupiter caused Vulcan to make out of clay in order to punish the human race, because Prometheus had stolen the fire from heaven. Jupiter gave Pandora a box containing all human ills, which, when the box was opened, escaped and spread over the earth. Hope alone remained in the box. Another version makes the box contain all the blessings of the gods, which were lost to men when Pandora opened it.
2. (Zoöl.)
Defn: A genus of marine bivalves, in which one valve is flat, the other convex.
PANDORE
Pan"dore, n. Etym: [F. See Bandore.]
Defn: An ancient musical instrument, of the lute kind; a bandore.
[Written also pandoran.]
PANDOUR
Pan"dour, n.
Defn: One of a class of Hungarian mountaineers serving in the
Austrian army; — so called from Pandur, a principal town in the
region from which they originally came. [Written also pandoor.]
Her whiskered pandours and her fierce hussars. Campbell.
PANDOWDY
Pan*dow"dy, n.
Defn: A deep pie or pudding made of baked apples, or of sliced bread and apples baked together, with no bottom crust.
PANDURATE; PANDURIFORM Pan"du*rate, Pan*du"ri*form, a. Etym: [L. pandura a pandore + -form: cf. F. panduriforme.]