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See Peen.

A pitch-black mineral consisting chiefly of the oxide of uranium; uraninite. See Uraninite.

how; to foretoken; to bode; -- now used esp. of unpropitious signs. Bacon. Many signs portended a dark and stormy day. Macaulay.

A payment or stipend; esp., the stipend or maintenance granted to a prebendary out of the estate of a cathedral or collegiate, church with which he is connected. See Note under Benefice.

Of or pertaining to a prebend; holding a prebend; as, a prebendal priest or stall. Chesterfield.

A clergyman attached to a collegiate or cathedral church who enjoys a prebend in consideration of his officiating at stated times in the church. See Note under Benefice, n., 3. Hook.

The office of a prebendary.

To invest with the office of prebendary; to present to a prebend. [Obs.] Grafton.

A prebendaryship. [Obs.] Foxe.

To lay hold of; to seize. [Obs.] Middleton.

The power or right of taking a thing before it is offered. Burrill.

claim to; to allege a title to; to claim. Chiefs shall be grudged the part which they pretend. Dryden.

A pretender; a claimant.

Making a false appearance; unreal; false; as, pretended friend. -- Pre*tend"ed*ly, adv.

The act of pretending; pretense. [Obs.] Daniel.

The pretender (Eng. Hist.), the son or the grandson of James II., the heir of the royal family of Stuart, who laid claim to the throne of Great Britain, from which the house was excluded by law. It is the shallow, unimproved intellects that are the confident pretenders to certainty. Glanvill.

The character, right, or claim of a pretender. Swift.

As by right or title; arrogantly; presumptuously. Collier.

rit by which the commission of the justice of the peace is revived, after having been suspended. Tomlins. Burrill.

To lean toward a thing; to be favorably inclined or disposed; to incline; to tend. [R.] Shak. We shall propend to it, as a stone falleth down. Barrow.