<B>pennywort, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> any one of various plants having roundish leaves, such as the wall pennywort or navelwort. </DL>
<A NAME="pennyworth">
<B>pennyworth, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>as much as can be bought for a penny. <DD><B> 2. </B>(Figurative.) a small amount. <BR> <I>Ex. Give me a pennyworth of advice.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>(Figurative.) a bargain (good, bad, fair, cheap, or otherwise). <BR> <I>Ex. Many have been ruined by buying good pennyworths (Benjamin Franklin).</I> <DD><B> 4. </B>(Figurative.) a good bargain. </DL>
<A NAME="penobscot">
<B>Penobscot, </B>noun, pl. <B>-scots</B> or <B>-scot.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a member of an American Indian tribe of Algonkian stock formerly living near the Penobscot River, Maine. <DD><B> 2. </B>their language. </DL>
<A NAME="penological">
<B>penological, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of or having to do with penology. <BR> <I>Ex. For eight years I did time in just such a penitentiary, under administrations representing opposite extremes of penological thought (Atlantic).</I> adv. <B>penologically.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="penologist">
<B>penologist, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> an expert in penology. <BR> <I>Ex. The Senate committee was listening to doctors, penologists, and policemen disagree on how to control drug distribution and handle addicts (Newsweek).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="penology">
<B>penology, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the science of the punishment and rehabilitation of criminals and the management of prisons. </DL>
<A NAME="penoncel">
<B>penoncel, </B>noun. <B>=pencel.</B></DL>
<A NAME="penpal">
<B>pen pal,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a person with whom one corresponds regularly, often in another country and without ever having met. <BR> <I>Ex. Ellen Roberts, a California teenager, was snowed under by an avalanche of Italian pen pals last fall (Harper's).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="penpicture">
<B>pen picture</B> or <B>portrait,</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a picture drawn with a pen. <DD><B> 2. </B>a brief written description, such as of a person or event. <BR> <I>Ex. Time [magazine] writers were as flattering with their pen pictures ... as Australia's Dobell was awry with his brushwork (Time).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="penpoint">
<B>penpoint, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a small metal instrument with a split point, used with a holder for writing in ink; nib. <DD><B> 2. </B>a point used for writing on any pen, such as the ball at the end of a ballpoint pen. </DL>
<A NAME="penpusher">
<B>pen-pusher, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Slang.) an office worker; person who works at a desk. <BR> <I>Ex. "I take on the paperwork," he said, ... "I'm a pen-pusher" (New Yorker).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="pensee">
<B>pensee, </B>noun, pl. <B>pensees.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (French.) a thought or reflection put in literary form. <BR> <I>Ex. He expressed this knowledge in a typical Churchillian pensee, under date of April 8, 1945 (Atlantic).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="pensile">
<B>pensile</B> (1), adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>hanging down; pendent. <DD><B> 2. </B>building a hanging nest. <BR> <I>Ex. a pensile bird.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="pensile">
<B>pensile</B> (2) or <B>pensil, </B>noun. <B>=pencel.</B></DL>
<A NAME="pension">
<B>pension</B> (1), noun, verb, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>a regular payment to a person of a specified sum of money which is not wages. Pensions are often paid because of long service, special merit, or injuries received. <BR> <I>Ex. A man or woman who makes the armed forces a career may retire with a pension after serving the required time (Robert J. Myers).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>a regular payment made to a person not an employee to retain his good will, assistance when needed, or other service; subsidy; fixed allowance. <DD><B> 3. </B><B>=pension</B> (2). <DD><I>v.t. </I> to give a pension to. <BR> <I>Ex. The Army pensioned the soldier for his years of loyal service.</I> <DD><I>adj. </I> of or having to do with a pension. <BR> <I>Ex. a pension plan, pension rolls.</I> <BR><I>expr. <B>pension off,</B> </I>to retire from service with a pension. <BR> <I>Ex. You have taken it into your head that I mean to pension you off (Dickens).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="pension">
<B>pension</B> (2), noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (French.) <DD><B> 1. </B>a boarding house or boarding school in France and other parts of Continental Europe. <BR> <I>Ex. In the tiny village of Trisenberg, high up on the mountainside, I very much liked a small homely pension run by a friendly, jolly woman, who does all the cooking (Observer).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>payment, such as for board and lodging or for the board and education of a child. <BR> <I>Ex. A full day's pension, if one has a room with bath, will cost about £3 (Atlantic).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="pensionable">
<B>pensionable, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Especially British.) <DD><B> 1. </B>qualified for or entitled to a pension. <DD><B> 2. </B>entitling to a pension. <BR> <I>Ex. The Civil Service is to offer pensionable jobs to men and women aged between 40 and 60 (London Times).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="pensionary">
<B>pensionary, </B>noun, pl. <B>-aries,</B> adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B><B>=pensioner.</B> <DD><B> 2. </B>(formerly, in the Netherlands) the chief magistrate of a city. <BR> <I>Ex. Jean Sersanders, the pensionary of Ghent (J. F. Kirk).</I> <DD><I>adj. </I> <B>1. </B>consisting or of the nature of a pension. <DD><B> 2. </B>receiving a pension. <DD><B> 3. </B>mercenary; hireling; venal. </DL>
<A NAME="pensione">
<B>pensione, </B>noun, pl. <B>-ni.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (Italian.) a boarding house, or pension, in Italy. <BR> <I>Ex. "Take it or leave it" is the attitude of the pensione keeper of the better sort when showing a room. As for the inferior pensioni, they have a practice of shanghaiing tourists (Mary McCarthy).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="pensioner">
<B>pensioner, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a person who receives a pension. <BR> <I>Ex. In a country that is slowly growing old, there is the overriding problem of the old-age pensioners (Atlantic).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>a hireling; dependent. <DD><B> 3. </B>a student who pays all his expenses, such as for food and lodging, (commons) at Cambridge University, England, and is not supported by any foundation. <DD><B> 4. </B>(Obsolete.) <DD><B> a. </B>(British.) a gentleman-at-arms. <DD><B> b. </B>a member of a bodyguard; attendant; retainer. </DL>
<A NAME="pensionfund">
<B>pension fund,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a fund set up on an actuarial basis to provide pensions for a group at a later date. <BR> <I>Ex. This man earned £17 a week, had looked after his money, and contributed about £1 a week to a pension fund that would give him £6 10s a week when he retired at 65 (Manchester Guardian).</I> adj. <B>pension-fund.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="pensionless">
<B>pensionless, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> receiving no pension. </DL>
<A NAME="pensionnaire">
<B>pensionnaire, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (French.) a person who boards in a pension. <BR> <I>Ex. On the fifth floor where the salon, the dining room and kitchen, and some of the rooms occupied by the pensionnaires (New Yorker).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="pensionplan">
<B>pension plan,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a plan, usually set up on an actuarial basis by an employer alone or by an employer jointly with a union, to provide pensions for retired or disabled employees. </DL>
<A NAME="pensive">
<B>pensive, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>thoughtful in a serious or sad way. <BR> <I>Ex. She was in a pensive mood, and sat staring out the window.</I> (SYN) meditative, reflective. <DD><B> 2. </B>melancholy. <BR> <I>Ex. ... the pensive shade of the Italian ruins (George W. Curtis).</I> (SYN) sober, grave, sad. adv. <B>pensively.</B> noun <B>pensiveness.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="penstab">
<B>pen-stab, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> an article for a writing desk, commonly a small vessel containing a brush with the bristles turned upward, for thrusting a pen into after using. </DL>
<A NAME="penstabber">
<B>pen-stabber, </B>noun. <B>=pen-stab.</B></DL>
<A NAME="penstemon">
<B>penstemon, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> any chiefly North American herb of a group of the figwort family, cultivated for their showy clustered flowers that are usually tubular and two-lipped and of various colors; beardtongue. Also, <B>pentstemon.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="penster">
<B>penster, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a petty writer. </DL>
<A NAME="penstock">
<B>penstock, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1a. </B>a channel for carrying water to a water wheel. <DD><B> b. </B>a pipe for carrying water to a turbine. <BR> <I>Ex. Water to drive the turbines drops sixteen times the height of Niagara Falls, through a penstock bored into the mountain and connecting with a huge ten-mile-long tunnel from Tahtsa Lake to the east (New York Times).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>a sluice or floodgate for restraining or regulating the flow from a head of water formed by a weir, dam, or other obstruction. <BR> <I>Ex. Apart from the associated damage to penstocks and valves, the large-scale flooding might cause great damage to industrial facilities downstream (The Effects of Atomic Weapons).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="pent">
<B>pent</B> (1), adjective, verb.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> closely confined; penned; shut. <BR> <I>Ex. pent in the house all winter.</I> <DD><I>verb </I> a past tense and a past participle of <B>pen</B> (2). <BR> <I>Ex. as if he had in prison long been pent (Edmund Spenser).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="pent">
<B>pent</B> (2), noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a sloping roof or covering; penthouse. </DL>
<A NAME="pent">
<B>pent-,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (combining form.) the form of <B>penta-</B> before vowels, as in <I>pentacid.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="penta">
<B>penta-,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (combining form.) <DD><B> 1. </B>five. <BR> <I>Ex. Pentameter = poetry having five metrical feet to the line.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>having five atoms of a specified substance. <BR> <I>Ex. Pentabasic = having five atoms of replaceable hydrogen.</I> <DD> Also, <B>pent-</B> before vowels. </DL>
<A NAME="pentabasic">
<B>pentabasic, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Chemistry.) having five atoms of hydrogen replaceable by basic atoms or radicals. <BR> <I>Ex. a pentabasic acid.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="pentacarpellary">
<B>pentacarpellary, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Botany.) having five carpels. </DL>
<A NAME="pentachlorophenol">
<B>pentachlorophenol, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a chemical used as a wood preservative and fungicide. <BR> <I>Ex. Pentachlorophenol is sometimes used in swabbing decks of U.S. Navy vessels because it is a wood preservative (Science News Letter).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="pentachord">
<B>pentachord, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Music.) <DD><B> 1. </B>an instrument with five strings. <DD><B> 2. </B>a diatonic series of five tones. </DL>