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A brevipennate bird.

o triturate; to grind; as, to comminute chalk or bones; to comminute food with the teeth. Pennant. Comminuted fracture. See under Fracture.

The coming together of a male and female in sexual commerce; the act of coition. Pennant.

Having convolutions. beaks recurved and convoluted like a ram's horn. Pennant.

und or path traversed; track; way. The same horse also run the round course at Newmarket. Pennant.

of his partner, which has been well laid before, or to strike off that of his antagonist. Pennant (Tour in Scotland. 1772). Curling irons, Curling tong, an instrument for curling the hair; -- commonly heated when used.

Having an azure color. Pennant.

siastical decrees and decisions made, by order of Gregory IX., in 1234, by St. Raymond of Pennafort.

ed her from the Spanish monarchy. Addison. Windmill Street consisted of disjoined houses. Pennant.

characteristic. The distinguishing doctrines of our holy religion. Locke. Distinguishing pennant (Naut.), a special pennant by which any particular vessel in a fleet is recognized and signaled. Simmonds.

peak and mastheads, and setting the jack forward; when dressed full, the signal flags and pennants are added. Ham. Nav. Encyc.

The state or quality of being fishy or fishlike. Pennant.

h carries the commanding officer of a fleet or squadron and flies his distinctive flag or pennant.

Feeding on fruit, as birds and other animals. Pennant.

Pertaining to gems; of the nature of gems; resembling gems. Pennant.

ss and the hog are common helpmates, and are yoked together in order to turn up the land. Pennant. A waiting woman was generally considered as the most suitable helpmate for a parson. Macaulay.

A port or small haven; -- used in composition; as, Lambhithe, now Lambeth. Pennant.

To make an island of. [Obs.] Pennant.

The native name of a South American rutaceous shrub (Pilocarpus pennatifolius). The leaves are used in medicine as an diaphoretic and sialogogue.

The state of being jetty; blackness. Pennant.