▪ I. panse, v. Sc. and dial.
(pans)
Also 6 pans, panss, 6–8 pance, (9 panch).
[a. OF. panser, pancer, to take thought for, take care of, treat (the sick), attend (to wounds, etc.), parallel form of penser to think: see pense.]
† 1. intr. To think; to meditate. Obs.
| a 1500 Henryson Garment gude Ladies 27 Hir patelet of gude pansing. 1500–20 Dunbar Poems lviii. 24 Thay panss nocht off the parrochin pure. 1528 Lyndesay Dream 397 To pans on his prudens. 1530 ― Test. Papyngo 444 My hart is peirst with panes for to pance. 1594 A. Hume Hymns, etc. (Bannatyne Club) 63 Studie not nor panse not meikle on the feeding of the flesh. 1637–50 Row Hist. Kirk (Wodrow Soc.) 12 The faithfull servants of God.. pansed how this great work might be effectuat to God's glorie. |
† 2. trans. To think of, consider, heed. Obs.
| 1560 Rolland Crt. Venus iii. 879 Perfitlie pance thir pointis last pregnant. c 1600 Montgomerie Cherrie & Slae 1357 And pance not, nor skance not, The perril nor the pryce. 1629 Sir W. Mure True Crucif. 2825 If God bee for thee, panse no who oppose. |
3. To attend to surgically or medically; to dress (a wound).
| a 1584 Montgomerie Cherrie & Slae 491 Gif ony pacient wald be pancit, Quhy suld he loup quhen he is lancit. 1676 W. Row Contn. Blair's Autobiog. xii. (1848) 576 They had a singular care of him causing panse his wounds. 1752 J. Louthian Form of Process (ed. 2) 124 He was carried to a neighbouring House, where his Wounds were panced. 1890 Lowson Guidfellow 281 (E.D.D.) Having pansed and dressed the wound. 1891 Hartland Gloss., Panch,..to prick and work a wound to extract matter or any foreign substance. |
Hence ˈpansing vbl. n., (a) thinking; (b) the dressing of a wound; also pansement rare.
| 1500–20 Dunbar Poems xxix. 13 Than pansing of penuritie Revis that fra my remembrance. 1579–80 Burgh Rec. Edin. (Rec. Soc.) IV. 152 The pansing, dressing, curing and handling of Robert Asbowane, quha wes laitlie hurt and woundit be James Dowglas. 1590 A. Hume Hymns, etc. (Bannatyne Club) 45 My pansing dois augment my paine. 1842 Dunglison, Pansement, dressing. |
▪ II. † panse, n. Obs. rare—1.
[a. OF. pense, panse, thought.]
A thought.
| a 1500 Colkelbie Sow i. 456 (Bann. MS.) And all thair plat pure pansis. |
▪ III. panse
obs. variant of paunce, a breast-plate.
▪ IV. panse, pansie
obs. forms of pansy n.