Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
panic .
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Examples
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(Kinai), and the same sovereign encouraged the cultivation of sorghum, panic-grass, barley, wheat, large white beans, small red beans, and sesame.
A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era Dairoku Kikuchi 1886
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This panic-grass you will, no doubt, fancy _must be the tallest grass in the world_.
The Plant Hunters Adventures Among the Himalaya Mountains Mayne Reid 1850
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"panic-grass," the _Panicum arborescens_, which actually grows to the height of fifty feet, with a culm not thicker than an ordinary goose-quill!
The Plant Hunters Adventures Among the Himalaya Mountains Mayne Reid 1850
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"It is a very green island and flat and very fertile, and I have no doubt that all the year through they sow panizo (panic-grass) and harvest it, and so with everything else.
The life of Christopher Columbus: from his own letters and journals and other documents of his time. 1891
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