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The hypothetical radical, C5H11, of pentane and certain of its derivatives. Same as Amyl.

Pertaining to, derived from, or containing, pentyl; as, pentylic alcohol

A game at cards, played with forty-eight cards, being all the cards above the eight spots in two packs.

The last syllable but one of a word; the syllable preceding the final one.

Same as Penult.

Last but one; as, the penultimate syllable, the last syllable but one of a word.

An incomplete or partial shadow.

Of or pertaining to a penumbra; resembling a penumbra; partially illuminated.

Excessively sparing in the use of money; sordid; stingy; miserly. "A penurious niggard of his wealth." Milton.

Absence of resources; want; privation; indigence; extreme poverty; destitution. "A penury of military forces." Bacon. They were exposed to hardship and penury. Sprat. It arises in neither from penury of thought. Landor.

A cloth, or other material, for wiping off or cleaning ink from a pen.

A female writer; an authoress. Johnson.

See Acipenser.

A genus of ganoid fishes, including the sturgeons, having the body armed with bony scales, and the mouth on the under side of the head. See Sturgeon.

Treatment of disease by the use of air or other gases.

Of or pertaining to the Alps. [R.] "The Alpen snow." J. Fletcher.

A reddish glow seen near sunset or sunrise on the summits of mountains; specif., a reillumination sometimes observed after the summits have passed into shadow, supposed to be due to a curving downward (refraction) of the light rays from the west resulting from the cooling of the air.

a bell, used by the Swiss to sound the ranz des vaches and other melodies. Its notes are open harmonics of the tube.

A long staff, pointed with iron, used in climbing the Alps. Cheever.

The hangings or screen in front of the altar; an altar cloth; the frontal. Smollett.