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A coheir, or one of two or more persons to whom an estate of inheritance descends jointly, and by whom it is held as one estate.

One who pardons. Shak.

One who belongs to, or is connected with, a parish.

One who has a part in anything with an other; a partaker; an associate; a sharer. "Partner of his fortune." Shak. Hence: (a) A husband or a wife. (b) Either one of a couple who dance together. (c) One who shares as a member of a partnership in the management, or in the gains and losses, of a business. My other self, th…

The state or condition of being a partner; as, to be in partnership with another; to have partnership in the fortunes of a family or a state.

One who pawns or pledges anything as security for the payment of borrowed money or of a debt.

In Great Britain, an officer of the Treasury who makes all payments and disbursements, civil as well as military. He is a member of the ministry, but not of the cabinet.

A breeding place, or rookery, of penguins.

One who pens; a writer. Sir T. North.

Pinnately veined or nerved.

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

One in receipt of a pension; hence, figuratively, a dependent. The fickle pensioners of Morpheus' train. Milton. Old pensioners . . . of Chelsea Hospital. Macaulay.

One who presents a petition.

Evident; visible. Phanerite series (Geol.), the uppermost part of the earth's crust, consisting of deposits produced by causes in obvious operation.

Same as Acraspeda.

Having an umbrella-shaped or bell-shaped body, with a wide, open cavity beneath; -- said of certain jellyfishes.

Distinctly crystalline; -- used of rocks. Opposed to Ant: cryptocrystalline.

Same as Saururæ.

That one of the two primary divisions of the vegetable kingdom which contains the phanerogamic, or flowering, plants.

Phanerogamous.