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The pangolin.

Any bird of the order Impennes, or Ptilopteri. They are covered with short, thick feathers, almost scalelike on the wings, which are without true quills. They are unable to fly, but use their wings to aid in diving, in which they are very expert. See King penguin, under Jackass.

A breeding place, or rookery, of penguins.

A handle for a pen.

A penthouse. [Obs.]

Painstaking; assidous. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A tent or pledget for wounds or ulcers.

Having the form of a pencil; furnished with a pencil of fine hairs; ending in a tuft of hairs like a camel's-hair brush, as the stigmas of some grasses.

Penicillate.

A portion of land nearly surrounded by water, and connected with a larger body by a neck, or isthmus.

Florida; -- a nickname.

Of or pertaining to a peninsula; as, a peninsular form; peninsular people; the peninsular war.

To form into a peninsula. South River . . . peninsulates Castle Hill farm. W. Bentley.

The male member, or organ of generation.

The quality or 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.

A priest who heard confession and enjoined penance in extraordinary cases. [Written also penitenser.] [Obs.] Chaucer.

Penitence. [Obs.]

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.

Of or pertaining to penitence, or to penance; expressing penitence; of the nature of penance; as, the penitential book; penitential tears. "Penitential stripes." Cowper. Guilt that all the penitential fires of hereafter can not cleanse. Sir W. Scott.

In a penitential manner.