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Webster Dictionary :: People
PEOPLE, n. [L. populus.] 1. The body of persons who compose a community, town, c...
Webster Dictionary :: Peony
PE'ONY, n. [L. poeonia; Gr. from Apollo.] A plant and flower of the genus Paeoni...
Webster Dictionary :: Peon
PE'ON, n. In Hindoostan, a foot soldier, or a footman armed with sword and targe...
Webster Dictionary :: Penury
PEN'URY, n. [L. penuria, from Gr. needy.] Want of property; indigence; extreme p...
Webster Dictionary :: Penuriously
PENU'RIOUSLY, adv. In a saving or parsimonious manner; with scanty supply.
Webster Dictionary :: Penurious
PENU'RIOUS, a. [L.penuria, scarcity, want; Gr. poor; rare.] 1. Excessively savin...
Webster Dictionary :: Penumbra
PENUM'BRA, n. [L.pene, almost,and umbra,shade.] In astronomy, a partial shade or...
Webster Dictionary :: Penultimate
PENULT'IMATE, a. [supra.] The last but one; a word used of the last syllable of ...
Webster Dictionary :: Penult
PENULT', n. [L. penultimus; pene, almost, and ultimus, last.] The last syllable ...
Webster Dictionary :: Pentremite
PEN'TREMITE, n. A genus of zoophytes or fossil shells.
Webster Dictionary :: Pentile
PEN'TILE, n. A tile for covering the sloping part of a roof.
Webster Dictionary :: Pentice
PEN'TICE, n. [L. pendo, to bend.] A sloping roof. [Little used.]
Webster Dictionary :: Penthouse
PENT'HOUSE, n. A shed standing aslope from the main wall or building.
Webster Dictionary :: Pentecostals
PENTECOS'TALS, n. Oblations formerly made by parishioners to the parish priest a...
Webster Dictionary :: Pentecostal
PEN'TECOSTAL, a. Pertaining to Whitsuntide.
Webster Dictionary :: Pentecost
PEN'TECOST,n. [Gr. fiftieth.] 1. A solemn festival of the Jews, so called becaus...
