Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter P - Page 36

Penitentiary (n.) A house of correction, in which offenders are confined for punishment, discipline, and reformation, and in which they are generally compelled to labor.

Penitentiaryship (n.) The office or condition of a penitentiary of the papal court.

Penitently (adv.) In a penitent manner.

Penk (n.) A minnow. See Pink, n., 4.

Penknives (pl. ) of Penknife

Penknife (n.) A small pocketknife; formerly, a knife used for making and mending quill pens.

Penmen (pl. ) of Penman

Penman (n.) One who uses the pen; a writer; esp., one skilled in the use of the pen; a calligrapher; a writing master.

Penman (n.) An author; a composer.

Penmanship (n.) The use of the pen in writing; the art of writing; style or manner of writing; chirography; as, good or bad penmanship.

Pennae (pl. ) of Penna

Penna (n.) A perfect, or normal, feather.

Pennaceous (a.) Like or pertaining to a normal feather.

Pennach (n.) A bunch of feathers; a plume.

Pennached (a.) Variegated; striped.

Pennage (n.) Feathery covering; plumage.

Pennant (n.) A small flag; a pennon. The narrow, / long, pennant (called also whip or coach whip) is a long, narrow piece of bunting, carried at the masthead of a government vessel in commission. The board pennant is an oblong, nearly square flag, carried at the masthead of a commodore's vessel.

Pennant (n.) A rope or strap to which a purchase is hooked.

Pennate (a.) Alt. of Pennated

Pennated (a.) Winged; plume-shaped.

Pennated (a.) Same as Pinnate.

Pennatulae (pl. ) of Pennatula

Pennatulas (pl. ) of Pennatula

Pennatula (n.) Any one of numerous species of Pennatula, Pteroides, and allied genera of Alcyonaria, having a featherlike form; a sea-pen. The zooids are situated along one edge of the side branches.

Pennatulacea (n. pl.) A division of alcyonoid corals, including the seapens and related kinds. They are able to move about by means of the hollow muscular peduncle, which also serves to support them upright in the mud. See Pennatula, and Illust. under Alcyonaria.

Penned (a.) Winged; having plumes.

Penned (a.) Written with a pen; composed.

Penner (n.) One who pens; a writer.

Penner (n.) A case for holding pens.

Penniform (a.) Having the form of a feather or plume.

Pennigerous (a.) Bearing feathers or quills.

Penniless (a.) Destitute of money; impecunious; poor.

Penninerved (a.) Pinnately veined or nerved.

Pennipotent (a.) Strong of wing; strong on the wing.

Pennon (n.) A wing; a pinion.

Pennon (n.) A pennant; a flag or streamer.

Pennoncel (n.) Alt. of Pennoncelle

Pennoncelle (n.) See Pencel.

Penny (a.) Denoting pound weight for one thousand; -- used in combination, with respect to nails; as, tenpenny nails, nails of which one thousand weight ten pounds.

Pennies (pl. ) of Penny

Pence (pl. ) of Penny

Penny (n.) An English coin, formerly of copper, now of bronze, the twelfth part of an English shilling in account value, and equal to four farthings, or about two cents; -- usually indicated by the abbreviation d. (the initial of denarius).

Penny (n.) Any small sum or coin; a groat; a stiver.

Penny (n.) Money, in general; as, to turn an honest penny.

Penny (n.) See Denarius.

Penny (a.) Worth or costing one penny.

Penny-a-liner (n.) One who furnishes matter to public journals at so much a line; a poor writer for hire; a hack writer.

Pennyroyal (n.) An aromatic herb (Mentha Pulegium) of Europe; also, a North American plant (Hedeoma pulegioides) resembling it in flavor.

Pennyweight (n.) A troy weight containing twenty-four grains, or the twentieth part of an ounce; as, a pennyweight of gold or of arsenic. It was anciently the weight of a silver penny, whence the name.

Pennywort (n.) A European trailing herb (Linaria Cymbalaria) with roundish, reniform leaves. It is often cultivated in hanging baskets.

Pennyworth (n.) A penny's worth; as much as may be bought for a penny.

Pennyworth (n.) Hence: The full value of one's penny expended; due return for money laid out; a good bargain; a bargain.

Pennyworth (n.) A small quantity; a trifle.

Penock (n.) See Pend.

Penological (a.) Of or pertaining to penology.

Penologist (n.) One versed in, or a student of, penology.

Penology (n.) The science or art of punishment.

Penrack (n.) A rack for pens not in use.

Pens (n.) pl. of Penny.

Pensative (a.) Pensive.

Pensel (n.) A pencel.

Pensible (a.) Held aloft.

Pensile (a.) Hanging; suspended; pendent; pendulous.

Pensileness (n.) State or quality of being pensile; pendulousness.

Pension (n.) A payment; a tribute; something paid or given.

Pension (n.) A stated allowance to a person in consideration of past services; payment made to one retired from service, on account of age, disability, or other cause; especially, a regular stipend paid by a government to retired public officers, disabled soldiers, the families of soldiers killed in service, or to meritorious authors, or the like.

Pension (n.) A certain sum of money paid to a clergyman in lieu of tithes.

Pension (n.) A boarding house or boarding school in France, Belgium, Switzerland, etc.

Pensioned (imp. & p. p.) of Pension

Pensioning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Pension

Pension (v. t.) To grant a pension to; to pay a regular stipend to; in consideration of service already performed; -- sometimes followed by off; as, to pension off a servant.

Pensionary (a.) Maintained by a pension; receiving a pension; as, pensionary spies.

Pensionary (a.) Consisting of a pension; as, a pensionary provision for maintenance.

Pensionaries (pl. ) of Pensionary

Pensionary (n.) One who receives a pension; a pensioner.

Pensionary (n.) One of the chief magistrates of towns in Holland.

Pensioner (n.) One in receipt of a pension; hence, figuratively, a dependent.

Pensioner (n.) One of an honorable band of gentlemen who attend the sovereign of England on state occasions, and receive an annual pension, or allowance, of £150 and two horses.

Pensioner (n.) In the university of Cambridge, England, one who pays for his living in commons; -- corresponding to commoner at Oxford.

Pensive (a.) Thoughtful, sober, or sad; employed in serious reflection; given to, or favorable to, earnest or melancholy musing.

Pensive (a.) Expressing or suggesting thoughtfulness with sadness; as, pensive numbers.

Pensived (a.) Made pensive.

Pensively (adv.) In a pensive manner.

Pensiveness (n.) The state of being pensive; serious thoughtfulness; seriousness.

Penstock (n.) A close conduit or pipe for conducting water, as, to a water wheel, or for emptying a pond, or for domestic uses.

Penstock (n.) The barrel of a wooden pump.

Pent (v. t.) Penned or shut up; confined; -- often with up.

Penta- () A combining form denoting five; as, pentacapsular; pentagon.

Penta- () Denoting the degree of five, either as regards quality, property, or composition; as, pentasulphide; pentoxide, etc. Also used adjectively.

Pentabasic (a.) Capable of uniting with five molecules of a monacid base; having five acid hydrogen atoms capable of substitution by a basic radical; -- said of certain acids.

Pentacapsular (a.) Having five capsules.

Pentachenium (n.) A dry fruit composed of five carpels, which are covered by an epigynous calyx and separate at maturity.

Pentachloride (n.) A chloride having five atoms of chlorine in each molecule.

Pentachord (n.) An ancient instrument of music with five strings.

Pentachord (n.) An order or system of five sounds.

Pentacid (a.) Capable of neutralizing, or combining with, five molecules of a monobasic acid; having five hydrogen atoms capable of substitution by acid residues; -- said of certain complex bases.

Pentacle (n.) A figure composed of two equilateral triangles intersecting so as to form a six-pointed star, -- used in early ornamental art, and also with superstitious import by the astrologers and mystics of the Middle Ages.

Pentacoccous (a.) Composed of five united carpels with one seed in each, as certain fruits.

Pentaconter (n.) See Penteconter.

Pentacrinin (n.) A red and purple pigment found in certain crinoids of the genus Pentacrinus.

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