Definition of "panick"

Panicum […] hathe no name in Engliſh yet, but it may well be called panick after yͤ Latin.Panicum […] hath no name in English yet, but it may well be called panic after the Latin.

1562, Wylliam Turner [i.e., William Turner], “Of Panick”, in The Second Parte of Guilliam Turners Herball⸝ […], Cologne: […] Arnold Birckman, folio 76, recto

There be ſundrie ſorts of Panick, although of the ancients there hathe beene ſet downe but two, that is to ſay, the wilde or fielde Panick, and the garden or manured Panick: […]

1597, John Gerarde [i.e., John Gerard], “Of Panick”, in The Herball or Generall Historie of Plantes. […], London: […] Edm[und] Bollifant, for Bonham and Iohn Norton, book I, page 78

[H]e perceived hovv that many vvomen follovved his ſouldiers, ſome being their vvives, and ſome vvanting nothing to make them ſo but marriage, […] The King coming to a great river, after his men and the vvagons vvere paſſed over, cauſed the bridge to be broken dovvn, hoping ſo to be rid of theſe feminine impediments; but they on a ſudden liſt up a panick ſhrick vvhich pierced the skies, and the ſouldiers hearts on the other ſide of the river, vvho inſtantly vovved not to ſtirre a foot farther, except vvith baggage, and that the vvomen might be fetch'd over, vvhich vvas done accordingly.

1642, Thomas Fuller, “The Life of Gustavus Adolphus King of Sweden”, in The Holy State, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: […] Roger Daniel for John Williams, […], book IV, paragraph 5, page 332