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ts are made into strips of uniform size with parallel sides. The cogollo is then boiled to toughen the fiber, and hung up in the sun to dry and whiten, when the leaflets run up into cordlike strands, which are then ready for use. The longest straw which can be procured from the bombonaje is twenty-seven and a half inches. It takes sixteen cogollos for an ordinary hat and twenty-four for the finest; and a single hat is plaited in from four days to as many months, according to texture. — Professor Orton of Vassar. Pan′cake. （Leather.) A factitious leather made of scraps agglutinated by cement or glue, and pressed into a flat cake for insoles, etc. Pan-de′an pipes. The emblems of Pan, the rural divinity of the Greeks, were a shepherd's crook and a pipe of seven reeds. Pandean pipes. The reeds are bound together in a parallel series, the months on a level and the lengths so proportioned as to give the notes of the gamut. The instrument yet survives in England