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Of or pertaining to the Longipennes; longipennate.

Marshy; fenny. [R.] Pennant.

-- Pen feather. A pin feather. [Obs.] -- Pen name. See under Name. -- Sea pen (Zoöl.), a pennatula. [Usually written sea-pen.]

A pennant; a flag or streamer. Longfellow.

An alkaloid extracted from jaborandi (Pilocarpus pennatifolius) as a white amorphous or crystalline substance which has a peculiar effect on the vasomotor system.

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.

A pennatula.

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.

The basal portion of the body of one of the Pennatulacea, or of a gorgonian.

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.