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The household gods of the ancient Romans. They presided over the home and the family hearth. See Lar.
A penitent.
pl. of Penny. See Penny.
A small, narrow flag or streamer borne at the top of a lance; -- called also pennoncel.
A game like b/zique, or, in the game, any queen and jack of different suits held together.
See Penstock.
To write or mark with a pencil; to paint or to draw.
Painted, drawn, sketched, or marked with a pencil.
The work of the pencil or bruch; as, delicate penciling in a picture.
Shaped like a pencil; penicillate.
Penmanship; skill in writing; chirography.
To pen; to confine.
Something which hangs or depends; something suspended; a hanging appendage, especially one of an ornamental character, as to a chandelier or an eardrop; also, an appendix or addition, as to a book.
Slope; inclination.
The quality or state of being pendent or suspended.
Supported from above; suspended; depending; pendulous; hanging; as, a pendent leaf.
The portion of a vault by means of which the square space in the middle of a building is brought to an octagon or circle to receive a cupola. The part of a groined vault which is supported by, and springs from, one pier or corbel.
In a pendent manner.
A sloping roof; a lean-to; a penthouse.
An appendage; something dependent on another; an appurtenance; a pendant.
An inferior tenant; one who rents a pendicle or croft.
During; as, pending the trail.
A chief leader or a king; a head; a dictator; -- a title assumed by the ancient British chiefs when called to lead other chiefs.
Pendulous.
To swing as a pendulum.
A pendulum.
A European titmouse (Parus pendulinus, syn. Aegithalus pendulinus). It is noted for its elegant pendulous purselike nest, made of the down of willow trees and lined with feathers.
The state or quality of being pendulous.
Depending; pendent loosely; hanging; swinging.
In a pendulous manner.
The quality or state of being pendulous; the state of hanging loosely; pendulosity.
A body so suspended from a fixed point as to swing freely to and fro by the alternate action of gravity and momentum. It is used to regulate the movements of clockwork and other machinery.
A natural family of tropical prawns.
A genus of curassows, including the guans.
A land surface reduced by erosion to the general condition of a plain, but not wholly devoid of hills; a base-level plain.
The quality of being penetrable; susceptibility of being penetrated, entered, or pierced.
Capable of being penetrated, entered, or pierced. Used also figuratively.
Penetralia.
The recesses, or innermost parts, of any thing or place, especially of a temple or palace.
The quality or state of being penetrant; power of entering or piercing; penetrating power or quality; as, the penetrancy of subtile effluvia.
Having power to enter or pierce; penetrating; sharp; subtile; as, penetrant cold.
To pass; to make way; to pierce. Also used figuratively.
Having the power of entering, piercing, or pervading; sharp; subtile; penetrative; as, a penetrating odor.
In a penetrating manner.
The act or process of penetrating, piercing, or entering; also, the act of mentally penetrating into, or comprehending, anything difficult.
Tending to penetrate; of a penetrating quality; piercing; as, the penetrative sun.
The quality of being penetrative.
A squid.
See Pinfold.
The pangolin.
Any bird of the order Impennes, or Ptilopteri. They are covered with short, thick feathers, almost scalelike on the wings, which are without true quills. They are unable to fly, but use their wings to aid in diving, in which they are very expert. See King penguin, under Jackass.
A breeding place, or rookery, of penguins.
A handle for a pen.
A penthouse.
Painstaking; assidous.
A tent or pledget for wounds or ulcers.
A substance (C5H11NO2S) which is a degradation product of the penicillins. Chemically it is 3-mercapto-D-valine. It has chelating properties and is used in medicine as an antirheumatic and to chelate copper in cases of hepatolenticular degeneration (Wilson's disease).
Having the form of a pencil; furnished with a pencil of fine hairs; ending in a tuft of hairs like a camel's-hair brush, as the stigmas of some grasses.
Penicillate.
Any of a variety of substances having a structure containing a beta-lactam ring fused to a thiirane ring, to which a carboxyl group is attached, but most commonly interpreted as benzyl penicillin. They are notable as powerful antibacterial agents of relatively low toxicity which have found extensive use in medicine for treating bacterial infections. They are categorized as one of the classes of beta-lactam antibiotic. They are produced naturally by some fungi and bacteria, and industrial production processes almost invariably start from some form of the penicillin nucleus produced by fermentation of microorganisms. The fermentation products are then chemically modified to produce derivatives of enhanced potency, safety, or antibacterial spectrum. The first penicillin to see extensive use clinically (during World War II) was penicillin G, also called benzypenicillin, and commonly simply /penicillin/.
An enzyme which destroys the antibacterial activity of penicillin by hydrolyzing the amide bond in the beta-lactam ring. Many penicillinases are known, and are produced by a wide variety of bacteria. The production of penicillinase is one of the mechanisms by which bacteria may become resistant to penicillins. Penicillinase production in various bacterial species may be induced, i.e., it may occur only when stimulated by the presence of penicillin in the culture medium, or it may be constitutive, i.e., it may occur whenever the cells are producing protein. Molecular weights of the various penicillinases tend to cluster near 50,000.
A portion of land nearly surrounded by water, and connected with a larger body by a neck, or isthmus.
Of or pertaining to a peninsula; as, a peninsular form; peninsular people; the peninsular war.
To form into a peninsula.
The erectile external sexual organ of males, used in copulation, and in mammals, also for urination.
The quality or condition of being penitent; the disposition of a penitent; sorrow for sins or faults; repentance; contrition.
A priest who heard confession and enjoined penance in extraordinary cases.
Penitence.
One who repents of sin; one sorrowful on account of his transgressions.
A book formerly used by priests hearing confessions, containing rules for the imposition of penances; -- called also penitential book.
In a penitential manner.
One who prescribes the rules and measures of penance.
The office or condition of a penitentiary of the papal court.
In a penitent manner.
A minnow. See Pink, n., 4.
A small pocketknife; formerly, a knife used for making and mending quill pens.
A small flashlight resembling a fountain pen, often having a clip to permit firm attachment to a pocket.
One who uses the pen; a writer; esp., one skilled in the use of the pen; a calligrapher; a writing master.
The use of the pen in writing; the art of writing; style or manner of writing; chirography; as, good or bad penmanship.
A perfect, or normal, feather.
Like or pertaining to a normal feather.
A bunch of feathers; a plume.
Variegated; striped.
Feathery covering; plumage.
A small flag; a pennon. The narrow pennant, or 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. A rope or strap to which a purchase is hooked.
Winged; plume-shaped.
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.
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.
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