Pennyworth to Pentateuchal
Pennyworth
(Pen"ny*worth`) n.
1. A penny's worth; as much as may be bought for a penny. "A dear pennyworth." Evelyn.
2. Hence: The full value of one's penny expended; due return for money laid out; a good bargain; a bargain.
The priests sold the better pennyworths.
Locke. 3. A small quantity; a trifle. Bacon.
Penock
(Pen"ock) n. See Pend.
Penological
(Pen`o*log"ic*al) a. Of or pertaining to penology.
Penologist
(Pe*nol"o*gist) n. One versed in, or a student of, penology.
Penology
(Pe*nol"o*gy) n. [Gr. or L. poena, punishment + -logy.] The science or art of punishment.
[Written also pœnology.]
Penrack
(Pen"rack`) n. A rack for pens not in use.
Pens
(Pens) n., pl. of Penny. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Pensative
(Pen"sa*tive) a. Pensive. [Obs.] Shelton.
Pensel
(Pen"sel) n. A pencel. Chaucer.
Pensible
(Pen"si*ble) a. Held aloft. [Obs.] Bacon.
Pensile
(Pen"sile) a. [L. pensilis, fr. pendere to hang: cf. OE. pensil. See Pendant.] Hanging; suspended; pendent; pendulous.
Bacon.
The long, pensile branches of the birches.
W. Howitt. Pensileness
(Pen"sile*ness), n. State or quality of being pensile; pendulousness.
Pension
(Pen"sion) n. [F., fr. L. pensio a paying, payment, fr. pendere, pensum, to weight, to pay; akin
to pendre to hang. See Pendant, and cf. Spend.]
1. A payment; a tribute; something paid or given. [Obs.]
The stomach's pension, and the time's expense.
Sylvester. 2. 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.
To all that kept the city pensions and wages.
1 Esd. iv. 56. 3. A certain sum of money paid to a clergyman in lieu of tithes. [Eng.] Mozley & W.
4. [F., pronounced .] A boarding house or boarding school in France, Belgium, Switzerland, etc.
