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n. [ Sp. bandurria, fr. L. pandura, pandurium, a musical instrument of three strings, fr. Gr. pandoy^ra a three-stringed musical instrument. Cf. Pandore, Banjo, Mandolin. ] A musical stringed instrument, similar in form to a guitar; a pandore. It is now obsolete, but see bandura. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Written also candour. ] [ L. candor, fr. candëre; cf. F. candeur. See candid. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. Whiteness; brightness; (as applied to moral conditions) usullied purity; innocence. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Nor yor unquestioned integrity
Shall e'er be sullied with one taint or spot
That may take from your innocence and candor. Massinger. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A disposition to treat subjects with fairness; freedom from prejudice or disguise; frankness; sincerity. [ 1913 Webster ]

Attribute superior sagacity and candor to those who held that side of the question. Whewell. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Mandolin, and Bandore. ] (Mus.) A kind of four-stringed lute. [ 1913 Webster ]

prop. n. [ L., fr. Gr. Pandw`ra; pa^s, pa^n, all + dw^ron a gift. ] 1. (Class. Myth.) 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zool.) A genus of marine bivalves, in which one valve is flat, the other convex. [ 1913 Webster ]