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Destitute of money; impecunious; poor. -- Pen"ni*less*ness, n.

Pinnately veined or nerved.

Strong of wing; strong on the wing. [Poetic] Davies (Holy Roode).

A pennant; a flag or streamer. Longfellow.

See Pencel.

ting pound weight for one thousand; -- used in combination, with respect to nails; as, tenpenny nails, nails of which one thousand weight ten pounds.

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

rope; also, a North American plant (Hedeoma pulegioides) resembling it in flavor. Bastard pennyroyal (Bot.) See Blue curls, under Blue.

A troy weight containing twenty-four grains, or the twentieth part of an ounce; as, a pennyweight of gold or of arsenic. It was anciently the weight of a silver penny, whence the name.

th roundish, reniform leaves. It is often cultivated in hanging baskets. March, or Water, pennywort. (Bot.) See under March.

A penny's worth; as much as may be bought for a penny. "A dear pennyworth." Evelyn.

See Pend.

Of or pertaining to penology.

One versed in, or a student of, penology.

The science or art of punishment. [Written also poenology.]

A rack for pens not in use.

pl. of Penny. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Pensive. [Obs.] Shelton.

A pencel. Chaucer.

Held aloft. [Obs.] Bacon.