Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter P - Page 36
Penitentiary (n.) A house of correction, in which offenders are confined for punishment, discipline, and reformation, and in which they are generally compelled to labor ; a prison; a jail.
Colloquially often shortened to pen.
Penitentiary (a.) Used for punishment or reform of criminals or wrongdoers; "penitentiary institutions."
Penitentiary (a.) Showing or constituting penance; "penitential tears"; "wrote a penitential letter apologizing for her hasty words" [syn: penitential, penitentiary].
Penitentiary (n.) A correctional institution for those convicted of major crimes [syn: penitentiary, pen].
Penitentiaryship (n.) The office or condition of a penitentiary of the papal court. [R.] -- Wood.
Penitently (adv.) In a penitent manner.
Penitently (adv.) Showing remorse [syn: penitently, penitentially, repentantly] [ant: impenitently, unrepentantly].
Penk (n.) A minnow. See Pink, n., 4. [Prov. Eng.] -- Walton.
Penknives (n. pl. ) of Penknife.
Penknife (n.) A small pocketknife; formerly, a knife used for making and mending quill pens.
Penknife (n.) A small pocketknife; originally used to cut quill pens.
Penmen (n. pl. ) of Penman.
Penman (n.) One who uses the pen; a writer; esp., one skilled in the use of the pen; a calligrapher; a writing master.
Penman (n.) An author; a composer. -- South.
Penman (n.) Informal terms for journalists [syn: scribe, scribbler, penman].
Penmanship (n.) The use of the pen in writing; the art of writing; style or manner of writing; chirography; as, good or bad penmanship.
Penmanship (n.) Beautiful handwriting [syn: calligraphy, penmanship, chirography].
Pennae (n. pl. ) of Penna.
Penna (n.) [L.] (Zool.) A perfect, or normal, feather.
Pennaceous (a.) (Zool.) Like or pertaining to a normal feather.
Pennach (n.) A bunch of feathers; a plume. [Obs.] -- Holland.
Pennached (a.) Variegated; striped. [Obs.] -- Evelyn.
Pennage (n.) Feathery covering; plumage. [Obs.] -- Holland.
Pennant (n.) (Naut.) 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. "With flags and pennants trimmed." -- Drayton.
Pennant (n.) (Naut.) A rope or strap to which a purchase is hooked. Pennate
Pennant (n.) The award given to the champion [syn: pennant, crown].
Pennant (n.) A flag longer than it is wide (and often tapering).
Pennant (n.) A long flag; often tapering [syn: pennant, pennon, streamer, waft].
Pennate (a.) Alt. of Pennated.
Pennated (a.) Winged; plume-shaped.
Pennated (a.) (Bot.) Same as Pinnate.
Pennate (a.) Having feathered wings.
Pennatulae (n. pl. ) of Pennatula.
Pennatulas (n. pl. ) of Pennatula.
Pennatula (n.) (Zool.) 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.
Pennatulacea (n. pl.) (Zool.) 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.
Penned (a.) Winged; having plumes. [Obs.]
Penned (a.) Written with a pen; composed. "Their penned speech." -- Shak.
Penned (a.) Enclosed in a pen; -- of animals.
Penner (n.) One who pens; a writer. -- Sir T. North.
Penner (n.) A case for holding pens. [Obs.]
Penniform (a.) Having the form of a feather or plume.
Pennigerous (a.) (Zool.) Bearing feathers or quills.
Penniless (a.) Destitute of money; impecunious; poor. -- Pen"ni*less*ness, n.
Penniless (a.) Not having enough money to pay for necessities [syn: hard up, impecunious, in straitened circumstances(p), penniless, penurious, pinched].
Penninerved (a.) Pinnately veined or nerved.
Pennipotent (a.) Strong of wing; strong on the wing. [Poetic] -- Davies (Holy Roode).
Pennon (n.) A wing; a pinion. -- Milton.
Pennon (n.) A pennant; a flag or streamer. -- Longfellow.
Pennon (n.) A long flag; often tapering [syn: pennant, pennon, streamer, waft].
Pennon (n.) Wing of a bird [syn: pennon, pinion].
Pennoncel (n.) Alt. of Pennoncelle.
Pennoncelle (n.) See Pencel.
Pencel (n.) [See Pennoncel.] A small, narrow flag or streamer borne at the top of a lance; -- called also pennoncel. [Obs.] -- Piers Plowman. -- Chaucer.
Pennoncel, Pennoncelle, (n.) [OF. penoncel. See Pennant.] A small pennon borne on a lance. See Pencel. [Also spelled penoncel.]
Pennoncel (n.) A small pennant borne on a lance [syn: pennoncel, penoncel, pennoncelle].
Penny (a.) Denoting pound weight for one thousand; -- used in combination, with respect to nails; as, tenpenny nails, nails of which one thousand weight ten pounds.
Pennies (n. pl. ) of Penny.
Pence (n. pl. ) of Penny.
Pennsylvania (n.) 賓夕法尼亞州（英語：Commonwealth of Pennsylvania）是美國的州份之一，正式名稱為「賓夕法尼亞聯邦」，俗稱「里程碑」州。中文簡稱賓州。 這個州的名稱起源於英國移民威廉·賓，英國國王查理二世為償還其父親的債務而授予大片林地，拉丁文中的意思是「賓的林地」。
州內最大的兩個城市也是美國的大城市，是費城和匹茲堡，費城是美國獨立戰爭時起草獨立宣言和聯邦憲法的地方，所以賓夕法尼亞州也被稱為「美國的搖籃」，匹茲堡曾經是著名的鋼鐵城。本州的行政區劃，共管轄了67個郡。
Officially the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, is a state located in the northeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States. The Appalachian Mountains run through its middle. The Commonwealth is bordered by Delaware to the southeast, Maryland to the south, West Virginia to the southwest, Ohio to the west, Lake Erie and the Canadian province of Ontario to the northwest, New York to the north, and New Jersey to the east.
Pennsylvania is the 33rd-largest, the 5th-most populous, and the 9th-most densely populated of the 50 United States. The state's five most populous cities are Philadelphia (1,567,872), Pittsburgh (303,625), Allentown (120,443), Erie (98,593), and Reading (87,575). The state capital, and its ninth-largest city, is Harrisburg. Pennsylvania has 140 miles (225 km) of shoreline along Lake Erie and the Delaware Estuary. [8]
The state is one of the 13 original founding states of the United States; it came into being in 1681 as a result of a royal land grant to William Penn, the son of the state's namesake. Part of Pennsylvania (along the Delaware River), together with the present State of Delaware, had earlier been organized as the Colony of New Sweden. It was the second state to ratify the United States Constitution, on December 12, 1787. Independence Hall, where the United States Declaration of Independence and United States Constitution were drafted, is located in the state's largest city of Philadelphia. During the American Civil War, the Battle of Gettysburg was fought in the south central region of the state. Valley Forge near Philadelphia was General Washington's headquarters during the bitter winter of 1777–78.
Penny (n.) A former English coin, originally of copper, then of bronze, the twelfth part of an English shilling in account value, and equal to four farthings, or about two cents; -- usually indicated by the abbreviation d. (the initial of denarius).
Note: "The chief Anglo-Saxon coin, and for a long period the only one, corresponded to the denarius of the Continent . . . [and was] called penny, denarius, or denier." -- R. S. Poole. The ancient silver penny was worth about three pence sterling (see Pennyweight). The old Scotch penny was only one twelfth the value of the English coin. In the United States the word penny is popularly used for cent.
Penny (n.) Any small sum or coin; a groat; a stiver. -- Shak.
Penny (n.) Money, in general; as, to turn an honest penny.
What penny hath Rome borne, What men provided, what munition sent? -- Shak.
Penny (n.) (Script.) See Denarius.
Penny cress (Bot.), An annual herb of the Mustard family, having round, flat pods like silver pennies ({Thlaspi arvense). Also spelled pennycress. -- Dr. Prior.
Penny dog (Zool.), A kind of shark found on the South coast of Britain: the tope.
Penny pincher, Penny father, A penurious person; a miser; a niggard. The latter phrase is now obsolete. -- Robinson (More's Utopia).
Penny grass (Bot.), Pennyroyal. [R.]
Penny post, A post carrying a letter for a penny; also, a mail carrier.
Penny wise, Wise or prudent only in small matters; saving small sums while losing larger; penny-wise; -- used chiefly in the phrase, penny wise and pound foolish.
Penny (a.) Worth or costing one penny ; as, penny candy.
Penny (n.) A fractional monetary unit of Ireland and the United Kingdom; equal to one hundredth of a pound.
Penny (n.) A coin worth one-hundredth of the value of the basic unit [syn: penny, cent, centime].
Penny, () (Gr. denarion), A silver coin of the value of about 7 1/2d. or 8d. of our present money. It is thus rendered in the New Testament, and is more frequently mentioned than any other coin (Matt. 18:28; 20:2, 9, 13; Mark 6:37; 14:5, etc.). It was the daily pay of a Roman soldier in the time of Christ. In the reign of Edward III. an English penny was a labourer's day's wages.
This was the "tribute money" with reference to which our Lord said, "Whose image and superscription is this?" When they answered, "Caesar's," he replied, "Render therefore to Caesar the things that are Caesar's; and to God the things that are God's" (Matt. 22:19; Mark 12:15).
Penny-a-liner (n.) One who furnishes matter to public journals at so much a line; a poor writer for hire; a hack writer.
Pennyroyal (n.) An aromatic herb (Mentha Pulegium) of Europe; also, a North American plant (Hedeoma pulegioides) resembling it in flavor.
Pennyweight (n.) A troy weight containing twenty-four grains, or the twentieth part of an ounce; as, a pennyweight of gold or of arsenic. It was anciently the weight of a silver penny, whence the name.
Pennywort (n.) A European trailing herb (Linaria Cymbalaria) with roundish, reniform leaves. It is often cultivated in hanging baskets.
Pennyworth (n.) A penny's worth; as much as may be bought for a penny.
Pennyworth (n.) Hence: The full value of one's penny expended; due return for money laid out; a good bargain; a bargain.
Pennyworth (n.) A small quantity; a trifle.
Penock (n.) See Pend.
Penological (a.) Of or pertaining to penology.
Penologist (n.) One versed in, or a student of, penology.
Penology (n.) The science or art of punishment.
Penrack (n.) A rack for pens not in use.
Pens (n.) pl. of Penny.
Pensative (a.) Pensive.
Pensel (n.) A pencel.
Pensible (a.) Held aloft.
Pensile (a.) Hanging; suspended; pendent; pendulous.
Pensileness (n.) State or quality of being pensile; pendulousness.
Pension (n.) A payment; a tribute; something paid or given.
Pension (n.) A stated allowance to a person in consideration of past services; payment made to one retired from service, on account of age, disability, or other cause; especially, a regular stipend paid by a government to retired public officers, disabled soldiers, the families of soldiers killed in service, or to meritorious authors, or the like.
Pension (n.) A certain sum of money paid to a clergyman in lieu of tithes.
Pension (n.) A boarding house or boarding school in France, Belgium, Switzerland, etc.
Pension (n.) [ C ] (B2) 養老金；退休金；撫恤金 An amount of money paid regularly by the government or a private company to a person who does not work any more because they are too old or have become ill.
// (US) A government pension.
// (UK) A state pension.
// He won't be able to draw (= receive) his pension until he's 65.
Pensioned (imp. & p. p.) of Pension.
Pensioning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Pension.
Pension (v. t.) 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.
Pensionary (a.) Maintained by a pension; receiving a pension; as, pensionary spies.
Pensionary (a.) Consisting of a pension; as, a pensionary provision for maintenance.
Pensionaries (n. pl. ) of Pensionary.
Pensionary (n.) One who receives a pension; a pensioner.
Pensionary (n.) One of the chief magistrates of towns in Holland.
Pensioner (n.) One in receipt of a pension; hence, figuratively, a dependent.
Pensioner (n.) One of an honorable band of gentlemen who attend the sovereign of England on state occasions, and receive an annual pension, or allowance, of ?50 and two horses.
Pensioner (n.) In the university of Cambridge, England, one who pays for his living in commons; -- corresponding to commoner at Oxford.
Pensive (a.) Thoughtful, sober, or sad; employed in serious reflection; given to, or favorable to, earnest or melancholy musing.
Pensive (a.) Expressing or suggesting thoughtfulness with sadness; as, pensive numbers.
Pensived (a.) Made pensive.
Pensively (adv.) In a pensive manner.
Pensiveness (n.) The state of being pensive; serious thoughtfulness; seriousness.
Penstock (n.) A close conduit or pipe for conducting water, as, to a water wheel, or for emptying a pond, or for domestic uses.
Penstock (n.) The barrel of a wooden pump.
Pent (v. t.) Penned or shut up; confined; -- often with up.
Penta- () A combining form denoting five; as, pentacapsular; pentagon.
Penta- () Denoting the degree of five, either as regards quality, property, or composition; as, pentasulphide; pentoxide, etc. Also used adjectively.
Pentabasic (a.) 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.
Pentacapsular (a.) Having five capsules.
Pentachenium (n.) A dry fruit composed of five carpels, which are covered by an epigynous calyx and separate at maturity.
Pentachloride (n.) A chloride having five atoms of chlorine in each molecule.
Pentachord (n.) An ancient instrument of music with five strings.
Pentachord (n.) An order or system of five sounds.
Pentacid (a.) 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.
Pentacle (n.) A figure composed of two equilateral triangles intersecting so as to form a six-pointed star, -- used in early ornamental art, and also with superstitious import by the astrologers and mystics of the Middle Ages.
Pentacoccous (a.) Composed of five united carpels with one seed in each, as certain fruits.
Pentaconter (n.) See Penteconter.
Pentacrinin (n.) A red and purple pigment found in certain crinoids of the genus Pentacrinus.