PENTECOSTAL
PEN'TECOSTAL, adjective Pertaining to Whitsuntide.
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American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.
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PENTECOSTALS
PENTECOS'TALS, noun Oblations formerly made by parishioners to the parish priest at the feast of Pentecost, and sometimes by inferior churches to the mother church.
PENTHOUSE
PENT'HOUSE, noun A shed standing aslope from the main wall or building.
PENTICE
PEN'TICE, noun [Latin pendo, to bend.] A sloping roof. [Little used.]
PENTILE
PEN'TILE, noun A tile for covering the sloping part of a roof.
PENTREMITE
PEN'TREMITE, noun A genus of zoophytes or fossil shells.
PENULT
PENULT', noun [Latin penultimus; pene, almost, and ultimus, last.]The last syllable of a word except one.
PENULTIMATE
PENULT'IMATE, adjective [supra.] The last but one; a word used of the last syllable of a word except one. It may be sometimes used as a noun.
PENUMBRA
PENUM'BRA, noun [Latin pene, almost, and umbra, shade.] In astronomy, a partial shade or obscurity on the margin of the perfect shade in an eclipse, or between the perfect shade...
PENURIOUS
PENU'RIOUS, adjective [Latin penuria, scarcity, want; Gr. poor; rare.]1. Excessively saving or sparing in the use of money; parsimonious to a fault; sordid; as a penurious man. ...
PENURIOUSLY
PENU'RIOUSLY, adverb In a saving or parsimonious manner; with scanty supply.
PENURY
PEN'URY, noun [Latin penuria, from Gr. needy.]Want of property; indigence; extreme poverty.All innocent they were exposed to hardship and penury
PEON
PE'ON, noun In Hindoostan, a foot soldier, or a footman armed with sword and target; said to be corrupted from piadah. [Qu. Latin pes, pedis.] Hence,1. In France, a common man i...
PEONY
PE'ONY, noun [Latin poeonia; Gr. from Apollo.]A plant and flower of the genus Paeonia. It is written also piony.
PEOPLE
PEOPLE, noun [Latin populus.]1. The body of persons who compose a community, town, city or nation. We say, the people of a town; the people of London or Paris; the English peopl...
PEOPLED
PEOPLED, participle passive Stocked or furnished with inhabitants.
PEOPLING
PEOPLING, participle present tense Stocking with inhabitants.
PEOPLISH
PEOPLISH, adjective Vulgar.
PEPASTIC
PEPAS'TIC, noun [Gr. to concoct or mature.] A medicine that serves to help digestion; applied particularly to such medicines as tend to promote the digestion of wounds.
PEPPER
PEP'PER, noun [Latin piper.] A plant and its seed or grain, of the genus Piper. The stem of the plant is a vine requiring a prop, which is usually a tree. The leaves are oval an...
PEPPER-BOX
PEP'PER-BOX, noun A small box with a perforated lid, used for sprinkling pulverized pepper on food.
PEPPER-CAKE
PEP'PER-CAKE, noun A kind of spiced cake or gingerbread.
PEPPER-CORN
PEP'PER-CORN, noun The berry or seed of the pepper-plant.1. Something of inconsiderable value; as lands held at the rent of a pepper-corn
PEPPER-GINGERBREAD
PEPPER-GIN'GERBREAD, noun A kind of cake made in England.
PEPPER-POT
PEP'PER-POT, noun A plant of the genus Capsicum.
PEPPER-TREE
PEP'PER-TREE, noun A plant of the venus Vitis.
PEPPER-WATER
PEP'PER-WATER, noun A liquor prepared from powdered black pepper; used in microscopical observations.