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A sloping roof; a lean-to; a penthouse. [Obs.] Fairfax.

A penthouse. [Obs.]

condition of being penitent; the disposition of a penitent; sorrow for sins or faults; repentance; contrition. "Penitence of his old guilt." Chaucer. Death is deferred, and penitenance has room To mitigate, if not reverse, the doom. Dryden.

Feeling pain or sorrow on account of sins or offenses; repentant; contrite; sincerely affected by a sense of guilt, and resolved on amendment of life. Be penitent, and for thy fault contrite. Milton. The pound he tamed, the penitent he cheered. Dryden.

). It also usually contains pyroxene, enstatite, chromite, etc. It is often altered to serpentine.

n both sides of it, and acting as a binder; -- called also perbend, perpend stone, and perpent stone.

of the skin; to sweat; to excrete through pores. Firs . . . perspire a fine balsam of turpentine. Smollett.

o misapply; to misinterpret designedly; as, to pervert one's words. Dryden. He, in the serpent, had perverted Eve. Milton.

A liquid resembling camphene, obtained by treating turpentine hydrochloride with lime. [Written also peucyl.]

nt; equanimity; fortitude; stoicism; as, to meet misfortune with philosophy. Then had he spent all his philosophy. Chaucer.

tash, and some fluorine. It is characteristic of crystalline limestone or dolomite and serpentine. See Mica.

A fibrous variety of serpentine.

A tedious and wearisome time. In prison hast thou spent a pilgrimage. Shak.

ee Pinus. -- Pine-needle wool. See Pine wool (below). -- Pine oil, an oil resembling turpentine, obtained from fir and pine trees, and used in making varnishes and colors. -- Pine snake (Zoöl.), a large harmless North American snake (Pituophis melanoleucus). It is whitish, covered with brown blotches having black ma…

ee (Pistacia Lentiscus), and the species (P. Terebinthus) which yields Chian or Cyprus turpentine.

rt of the leaves transformed into pitchers or cuplike organs, especially the species of Nepenthes. See Nepenthes.

y of the earth. -- Plumb rule, a narrow board with a plumb line, used by builders and carpenters.

sumac. -- Poison fang (Zoöl.), one of the superior maxillary teeth of some species of serpents, which, besides having the cavity for the pulp, is either perforated or grooved by a longitudinal canal, at the lower end of which the duct of the poison gland terminates. See Illust. under Fang. -- Poison gland (Biol.), a…

ll to-morrow, or from day to day; to defer; to postpone; to delay; as, to procrastinate repentance. Dr. H. More. Hopeless and helpless Ægeon wend, But to procrastinate his lifeless end. Shak.

A suborder of serpents including those that have permanently erect grooved poison fangs, with ordinary teeth behind them in the jaws. It includes the cobras, the asps, and the sea snakes. Called also Proteroglyphia.