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Hanging; suspended; pendent; pendulous. Bacon. The long, pensile branches of the birches. W. Howitt.

State or quality of being pensile; pendulousness.

A payment; a tribute; something paid or given. [Obs.] The stomach's pension, and the time's expense. Sylvester.

Maintained by a pension; receiving a pension; as, pensionary spies. Donne.

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

loyed in serious reflection; given to, or favorable to, earnest or melancholy musing. The pensive secrecy of desert cell. Milton. Anxious cares the pensive nymph oppressed. Pope.

Made pensive. [R.] Shak.

In a pensive manner.

The state of being pensive; serious thoughtfulness; seriousness. Hooker.

A close conduit or pipe for conducting water, as, to a water wheel, or for emptying a pond, or for domestic uses.

Penned or shut up; confined; -- often with up. Here in the body pent. J. Montgomery. No pent-up Utica contracts your powers. J. M. Sewall.

A combining form denoting five; as, pentacapsular; pentagon.

Capable of uniting with five molecules of a monacid base; having five acid hydrogen atoms capable of substitution by a basic radical; -- said of certain acids.

Having five capsules.

A dry fruit composed of five carpels, which are covered by an epigynous calyx and separate at maturity.

A chloride having five atoms of chlorine in each molecule.

An ancient instrument of music with five strings.

Capable of neutralizing, or combining with, five molecules of a monobasic acid; having five hydrogen atoms capable of substitution by acid residues; -- said of certain complex bases.

A figure composed of two equilateral triangles intersecting so as to form a six-pointed star, -- used in early ornamental art, and also with superstitious import by the astrologers and mystics of the Middle Ages.

Composed of five united carpels with one seed in each, as certain fruits.