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Webster 1913 Edition

Panorpid

Pa-nor′pid

,

Noun.

(Zool.)

Any neuropterous insect of the genus

Panorpa

, and allied genera. The larvæ feed on plant lice.

2.

To turn out (profitably or unprofitably); to result; to develop;

as, the investigation, or the speculation,

panned out

poorly

.

[Slang, U. S.]