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The state of being jetty; blackness. Pennant.

Marshy; fenny. [R.] Pennant.

A pennant; a flag or streamer. Longfellow.

In the form of a ply, fold, or doubling. [Obs.] Pennant.

tree having its top cut off at some height above the ground, that may throw out branches. Pennant.

A pennant. [Obs.] Chaucer.

To bend or curve back; to recurve. Pennant.

esurrection, and the life. John xi. 25. Cross of the resurrection, a slender cross with a pennant floating from the junction of the bars. -- Resurrection plant (Bot.), a name given to several species of Selaginella (as S. convoluta and S. lepidophylla), flowerless plants which, when dry, close up so as to resemble a b…

lied to related Asiatic species. The rook . . . should be treated as the farmer's friend. Pennant.

om; 41 Foremast and Rigging; 42 Fore Topmast Backstays; 43 Fore Sheets; 44 Main Truck and Pennant; 45 Main Royal Mast and Backstay; 46 Main Royal Stay; 47 Main Royal Lift; 48 Main Royal Yard; 49 Main Royal Braces; 50 Main Topgallant Mast and Rigging; 51 Main Topgallant Lift; 52 Main Topgallant Backstays; 53 Main Topgal…

Having a hissing sound; hissing; sibilant. [R.] Pennant.

A young or small herring. [Eng.] Pennant.

Slushy. [Prov. Eng.] Pennant.

Nearly square. Pennant.

An ensign, flag, or pennant, which floats in the wind; specifically, a long, narrow, ribbonlike flag. Brave Rupert from afar appears, Whose waving streamers the glad general knows. Dryden.

Having a suture or sutures; knit or united together. Pennant.

Accompanied with thunder; thunderous. [R.] "Thundery weather." Pennant.

To free the breech of, as a cannon, from its fastenings or coverings. Pennant.

The long pennant. See Pennant (a)

p., to sound with prolonged and mutually involved notes. "Hunters who wound their horns." Pennant. Ye vigorous swains, while youth ferments your blood, . . . Wind the shrill horn. Pope. That blast was winded by the king. Sir W. Scott.