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ney; -- generally in a bad sense; excessive frugality; niggardliness. Bacon. Awful parsimony presided generally at the table. Thackeray.

PARTHENOGENY n.

Same as Parthenogenesis.

PATHOGENY n. 2 definitions

The generation, and method of development, of disease; as, the pathogeny of yellow fever is unsettled.

PATRIMONY n. 2 definitions

A right or estate inherited from one's father; or, in a larger sense, from any ancestor. "'Reave the orphan of his patrimony." Shak.

See Patrocination.

PATRONYMIC a. 2 definitions

Derived from ancestors; as, a patronymic denomination.

PATRONYMICAL a.

Same as Patronymic.

PENNY a. 6 definitions

g pound weight for one thousand; -- used in combination, with respect to nails; as, tenpenny nails, nails of which one thousand weight ten pounds.

PENNY-A-LINER n.

One who furnishes matter to public journals at so much a line; a poor writer for hire; a hack writer. Thackeray.

e; also, a North American plant (Hedeoma pulegioides) resembling it in flavor. Bastard pennyroyal (Bot.) See Blue curls, under Blue.

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.

roundish, reniform leaves. It is often cultivated in hanging baskets. March, or Water, pennywort. (Bot.) See under March.

PENNYWORTH n. 3 definitions

A penny's worth; as much as may be bought for a penny. "A dear pennyworth." Evelyn.

est are perennial herbs with showy flowers, often double in cultivation. [Written also pæony, and piony.]

PERIPNEUMONIA; PERIPNEUMONY n.

Pneumonia. (Obsoles.)

A silk-producing moth (Attacus Pernyi) which feeds upon the oak. It has been introduced into Europe and America from China.

ential residue of benzene, and the basis of an immense number of aromatic derivatives. Phenyl hydrate (Chem.), phenol or carbolic acid. -- Phenyl hydrazine (Chem.), a nitrogenous base (C6H5.N2H3) produced artificially as a colorless oil which unites with acids, ketones, etc., to form well-crystallized compounds.…

Any one of certain class of organic bases regarded as formed from ammonia by the substitution of phenyl for hydrogen.

A hypothetic radical (C6H4) occurring in certain derivatives of benzene; as, phenylene diamine.

Pertaining to, derived from, or containing, phenyl. Phenylic alcohol (Chem.), phenol.