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.

Winged; having plumes.

One who pens; a writer.

Having the form of a feather or plume.

Bearing feathers or quills.

Destitute of money; impecunious; poor.

Pinnately veined or nerved.

Strong of wing; strong on the wing.

A pennant; a flag or streamer.

A small pennon borne on a lance. See Pencel.

The geological period from 280 million to 310 million years ago; -- it was characterized by a warm climate and abundance of swampy land.

Worth or costing one penny; as, penny candy.

One who furnishes matter to public journals at so much a line; a poor writer for hire; a hack writer.

Scrimping; reluctant to spend money; stingy; miserly; same as cheesparing.

Thrifty in small matters only. Used mostly in the phrase penny-wise and pound foolish.

Any of several plants of the genus Thlaspi; see penny cress.

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

A troy weight containing twenty-four grains, or the twentieth part of a troy ounce; 1.555 grams; as, a pennyweight of gold or of arsenic. It is abbreviated dwt or pwt. It was anciently the weight of a silver penny, whence the name.

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

A penny's worth; as much as may be bought for a penny.

See Pend.

Of or pertaining to penology.

One versed in, or a student of, penology.

The science or art of punishment.

A rack for pens not in use.

pl. of Penny; pence.

Pensive.

A pencel.

Held aloft.

Hanging; suspended; pendent; pendulous.

State or quality of being pensile; pendulousness.

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.

Entitled to receive a pension; as, a pensionable employee.

One who receives a pension; a pensioner.

One in receipt of a pension; hence, figuratively, a dependent.

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

Made pensive.

In a pensive manner.

The state of being pensive; serious thoughtfulness; seriousness.

A large genus of subshrubs or herbs having showy blue or purple or red or yellow or white flowers; found mostly in Western North America.

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

Penned or shut up; confined; -- often with up.

Same as penta-; -- used as a combining form before vowels, as in pentoxide.

A combining form denoting five; as, pentacapsular; pentagon.

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.

Having five capsules.

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

A chloride having five atoms of chlorine in each molecule; as, phosphorus pentachloride.

An ancient instrument of music with five strings.

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.

A five-pointed star, also called a pentagram or pentalpha. See illustr. under pentalpha. Sometimes referring to a similar figure, such as the figure composed of two equilateral triangles intersecting so as to form a six-pointed star. It was used in early ornamental art, and also with superstitious import by the astrologers and mystics of the Middle Ages. The six-pointed star is more comonly called a hexagram, or called Solomon's seal; it resembles the star of David (Magen David)

Composed of five united carpels with one seed in each, as certain fruits.

See Penteconter.

A red and purple pigment found in certain crinoids of the genus Pentacrinus.

Any species of Pentacrinus.

An immature comatula when it is still attached by a stem, and thus resembles a Pentacrinus.

A genus of large, stalked crinoids, of which several species occur in deep water among the West Indies and elsewhere.

A solid having five summits or angular points.

A set of verses so disposed that the name forming the subject of the acrostic occurs five times -- the whole set of verses being divided into five different parts from top to bottom.

Having the valence of a pentad.

Having the form of, or a structure modified from, a pentadactyl limb.

A hydrocarbon of the paraffin series, (C15H32) found in petroleum, tar oil, etc., and obtained as a colorless liquid; -- so called from the fifteen carbon atoms in the molecule.

Of, pertaining to, or derived from, pentadecane, or designating an acid related to it.

Same as Quindecylic-- = pentadecyl? -->.

Having the stamens arranged in five clusters, those of each cluster having their filaments more or less united, as the flowers of the linden.

Divided or cleft into five parts.

A work in five different tongues.

A plane figure having five angles, and, consequently, five sides; any figure having five angles.

Having five corners or angles.

In the form of a pentagon; with five angles.

Pentagonal.

A pentacle or a pentalpha.

Pantographic. See Pantograph.

A Linn/an order of plants, having five styles or pistils.

Of or pertaining to plants of the order Pentagyna; having five styles.

Having five sides; as, a pentahedral figure.

Pentahedral.

A solid figure having five sides.

Pentahedral.

A peculiar insectivore (Ptilocercus Lowii) of Borneo; -- so called from its very long, quill-shaped tail, which is scaly at the base and plumose at the tip.

A five-pointed star, resembling five alphas joined at their bases; -- used as a symbol.

An extensive division of Coleoptera, including those that normally have five-jointed tarsi. It embraces about half of all the known species of the Coleoptera.

One of the Pentamera.

Divided into, or consisting of, five parts; also, arranged in sets, with five parts in each set, as a flower with five sepals, five petals, five, or twice five, stamens, and five pistils.

A genus of extinct Paleozoic brachiopods, often very abundant in the Upper Silurian.

Having five metrical feet.

A hypothetical hydrocarbon, C5H10, metameric with the amylenes, and the nucleus of a large number of derivatives; -- so named because regarded as composed of five methylene residues. Cf. Trimethylene, and Tetramethylene.

A Linn/an class of plants having five separate stamens.

Of or pertaining to the class Pentadria; having five stamens.

Any one of the three metameric hydrocarbons, C5H12, of the methane or paraffin series. They are colorless, volatile liquids, two of which occur in petroleum. So called because of the five carbon atoms in the molecule.

A pentagon.

Having five corners or angles.

Having five petals, or flower leaves.

Having five leaves or leaflets.

A measure or series consisting of five feet.

A noun having five cases.

A picture, or combination of pictures, consisting of a centerpiece and double folding doors or wings, as for an altarpiece.

A government in the hands of five persons; five joint rulers.

A purchase with five pulleys.

Containing five seeds.

A composition consisting of five verses.

Having, or arranged in, five vertical ranks, as the leaves of an apple tree or a cherry tree.

Same as Linguatulina.

Having five columns in front; -- said of a temple or portico in classical architecture. A portico having five columns.

The first five books of the Old Testament, collectively; -- called also the Law of Moses, Book of the Law of Moses, etc.

Of or pertaining to the Pentateuch.

Pertaining to, or designating, an acid of sulphur obtained by leading hydrogen sulphide into a solution of sulphur dioxide; -- so called because it contains five atoms of sulphur.

A fivefold athletic performance peculiar to the great national games of the Greeks, including leaping, foot racing, wrestling, throwing the discus, and throwing the spear.

Having five atoms in the molecule. Having five hydrogen atoms capable of substitution.

Having a valence of five; -- said of certain atoms and radicals.

A Grecian vessel with fifty oars.

A solemn festival of the Jews; -- so called because celebrated on the fiftieth day (seven weeks) after the second day of the Passover (which fell on the sixteenth of the Jewish month Nisan); -- hence called, also, the Feast of Weeks. At this festival an offering of the first fruits of the harvest was made. By the Jews it was generally regarded as commemorative of the gift of the law on the fiftieth day after the departure from Egypt.

Of or pertaining to Pentecost or to Whitsuntide.

Offerings formerly made to the parish priest, or to the mother church, at Pentecost.

An officer in the Spartan army commanding fifty men.

A troop of fifty soldiers in the Spartan army; -- called also pentecostys.

Of or pertaining to Mount Pentelicus, near Athens, famous for its fine white marble quarries; obtained from Mount Pentelicus; as, the Pentelic marble of which the Parthenon is built.

Same as Amylene.

Leaning; overhanging.

A penthouse.