PENNING
PEN'NING, participle present tense Committing to writing.PENNON. [See Pennant.]
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American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.
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PENNON
PEN'NON, noun [Latin pannus, a cloth]1. A small flag; a banner. [See Pendant.]2. A tackle for hoisting things on board a ship.
PENNY
PEN'NY, nounplural pennies or pence. Pennies denotes the number of coins; pence the amount of pennies in value.1. An ancient English silver coin; but now an imaginary money of a...
PENNYPOST
PEN'NYPOST, noun One that carries letters from the post office and delivers them to the proper persons for a penny or other small compensation.
PENNYROYAL
PENNYROY'AL, noun A plant of the genus Mentha.The English pennyroyal is the Mentha pulegium; the noun American pennyroyal is the Cunila pulegioides.
PENNYWEIGHT
PEN'NYWEIGHT, noun A troy weight containing twenty four grains, each grain being equal in weight to a grain of wheat from the middle of the ear, well dried. It was anciently the...
PENNYWISE
PEN'NYWISE, adjective Saving small sums at the hazard of larger; niggardly on improper occasions.
PENNYWORTH
PEN'NYWORTH, noun As much as is bought for a penny.1. Any purchase; any thing bought or sold for money; that which is worth the money given.2. A good bargain; something advantag...
PENSILE
PEN'SILE, adjective [Latin pensilis, from pendeo, to hang.]1. Hanging; suspended; as a pensile bell.2. Supported above the ground; as a pensile garden.
PENSILENESS
PEN'SILENESS, noun The state of hanging.
PENSION
PEN'SION, noun [Latin pensio, form pendo, pensum, to pay.]1. An annual allowance of a sum of money to a person by government in consideration of past services, civil or military...
PENSIONARY
PEN'SIONARY, adjective Maintained by a pension; receiving a pension; as pensionary spies.1. Consisting in a pension; as a pensionary provision for maintenance.PEN'SIONARY, noun ...
PENSIONED
PEN'SIONED, participle passive Having a pension.
PENSIONER
PEN'SIONER, noun One to whom an annual sum of money is paid by government in consideration of past services.1. One who receives an annual allowance for services.2. A dependant.3...
PENSIONING
PEN'SIONING, participle present tense Granting an annual allowance for past services.
PENSIVE
PEN'SIVE, adjective [Latin penso, to weigh, to consider; pendo, to weigh.]1. Literally, thoughtful; employed in serious study or reflection; but it often implies some degree of ...
PENSIVELY
PEN'SIVELY, adverb With thoughtfulness; with gloomy seriousness or some degree of melancholy.
PENSIVENESS
PEN'SIVENESS, noun Gloomy thoughtfulness; melancholy; seriousness from depressed spirits.
PENSTOCK
PEN'STOCK, noun [pen and stock.] A narrow or confined place formed by a frame of timber planked or boarded, for holding or conducting the water of a mill-pond to a wheel, and fu...
PENT
PENT, participle passive of pen. Shut up; closely confined.
PENTACAPSULAR
PENTACAP'SULAR, adjective [Gr. five, and capsular.] In botany, having five capsules.
PENTACHORD
PEN'TACHORD, noun [Gr. five, and chord.]1. An instrument of music with five strings.2. An order or system of five sounds.
PENTACOCCOUS
PEN'TACOCCOUS, adjective [Gr. five, and Latin coccus, a berry.]Having or containing five grains or seeds, or having five cells with one seed in each.
PENTACOSTER
PEN'TACOSTER, noun [Gr.] In ancient Greece, a military officer commanding fifty men; but the number varied.
PENTACOSTYS
PEN'TACOSTYS, noun [Gr.] A body of fifty soldiers; but the number varied.
PENTACRINITE
PENTAC'RINITE, noun The fossil remains of a zoophyte.
PENTACROSTIC
PENTACROS'TIC, adjective [Gr. five, and acrostic.] Containing five acrostics of the same name in five divisions of each verse.PENTACROS'TIC, noun A set of verses so disposed as ...