A short form of ‘Pardner’, itself a variant of ‘Partner’. ‘Nearly time for us to be moving, pard,’ says Injun Joe to his companion, in Tom Sawyer, by Mark Twain. The fuller form of the word occurs in North Dallas...

A leopard cannot change its spots. (Roman) The rain wets the leopard’s spots but does not wash them off. (West African) When the leopard is at large it will be seen by everybody....

The leopard (Panthera pardus) is an Old World mammal of the Felidae family and the smallest of the four 'big cats' of the genus Panthera, along with the tiger, lion, and jaguar. Leopards that are melanistic, either all-black or very dark in coloration,...