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Webster Dictionary :: Pensive

PEN'SIVE, a. [L.penso, to weigh, to consider; pendo, to weigh.] 1. Literally, th...

Webster Dictionary :: Pensively

PEN'SIVELY, adv. With thoughtfulness; with gloomy seriousness or some degree of ...

Webster Dictionary :: Pensiveness

PEN'SIVENESS, n. Gloomy thoughtfulness; melancholy; seriousness from depressed s...

Webster Dictionary :: Penstock

PEN'STOCK, n. [pen and stock.] A narrow or confined place formed by a frame of t...

Webster Dictionary :: Pent

PENT, pp. of pen. Shut up; closely confined.

Webster Dictionary :: Pentacapsular

PENTACAP'SULAR, a. [Gr. five, and capsular.] In botany, having five capsules.

Webster Dictionary :: Pentachord

PEN'TACHORD,n. [Gr. five, and chord.] 1. An instrument of music with five string...

Webster Dictionary :: Pentacoccous

PEN'TACOCCOUS, a. [Gr. five, and L. coccus, a berry.] Having or containing five ...

Webster Dictionary :: Pentacoster

PEN'TACOSTER, n. [Gr.] In ancient Greece, a military officer commanding fifty me...

Webster Dictionary :: Pentacostys

PEN'TACOSTYS, n. [Gr.] A body of fifty soldiers; but the number varied.

Webster Dictionary :: Pentacrinite

PENTAC'RINITE, n. The fossil remains of a zoophyte.

Webster Dictionary :: Pentacrostic

PENTACROS'TIC, a. [Gr. five, and acrostic.] Containing five acrostics of the sam...

Webster Dictionary :: Pentadactyl

PENTADAC'TYL, n. [Gr. five, and finger.] 1. In botany, a plant called five finge...

Webster Dictionary :: Pentagon

PEN'TAGON, n. [Gr. five, and a corner.] 1. In geometry, a figure of five sides a...

Webster Dictionary :: Pentagonal

PENTAG'ONAL PENTAG'ONOUS, a. Having five corners or angles.

Webster Dictionary :: Pentagraph

PEN'TAGRAPH, n. [Gr. five, and to write.] An instrument for drawing figures in a...

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