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, one where articles of fancy and ornament are sold. -- Fancy woods, the more rare and expensive furniture woods, as mahogany, satinwood, rosewood, etc.

ion instead of erect; to droop; as, he hung his head in shame. Cowslips wan that hang the pensive head. Milton. To hang down, to let fall below the proper position; to bend down; to decline; as, to hang down the head, or, elliptically, to hang the head. -- To hang fire (Mil.), to be slow in communicating fire through…

hing; disposed or moved by wish, desire, or judgment; as, a man inclined to virtue. "Each pensively inclined." Cowper.

Affectedly pensive; languidly sentimental. -- Lack`a*dai"si*cal*ly, adv.

Amorously pensive; as, languishing eyes, or look.

Tenderness of look or mien; amorous pensiveness.

A free indulgence in costly food, dress, furniture, or anything expensive which gratifies the appetites or tastes. Riches expose a man to pride and luxury. Spectator.

Pensive maditation; serious thoughtfulness. [Obs.] "Hail, divinest Melancholy !" Milton.

Hence: Out of humor; peevish; angry; fretful; also, abstracted and pensive; sad; gloomy; melancholy. "Every peevish, moody malcontent." Rowe. Arouse thee from thy moody dream! Sir W. Scott.

d a moral to. While chastening thoughts of sweetest use, bestowed By Wisdom, moralize his pensive road. Wordsworth.

Pensive. [Obs.] Shelton.

In a precious manner; expensively; extremely; dearly. Also used ironically.

carried on chiefly for profit; specif., and commonly, any of various select and usually expensive endowed schools which give a liberal modern education or prepare pupils for the universities. Eton, Harrow, Rugby, and Winchester are of this class.

go, again into the presence of; to join the company of again. Meet and rejoin me, in the pensive grot. Pope.

A colorless stone of high luster, made of paste. It is much used as an inexpensive ornament.

Excessive and exxpensive feasting; wild and loose festivity; revelry. Venus loveth riot and dispense. Chaucer. The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day. Pope.

Seclusion; privacy; retirement. "The pensive secrecy of desert cell." Milton.

Inviting slumber; soporiferous. "Pensive in the slumberous shade." Pope.

ort to one not sociable. Shak. What can be uneasy to this sociable creature than the dry, pensive retirements of solitude South.

ely place; a desert or wilderness. In these deep solitudes and awful cells Where heavenly pensive contemplation dwells. Pope.