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Having eight pistils or styles; octogynous.

See lst Fox, 7.

See Pantograph.

The theory or practice of the medical profession; -- used in burlesque or ridicule.

dered with respect to their rank or character; extraction; birth; as, a man of noble parentage. "Wilt thou deny thy parentage" Shak. Though men esteem thee low of parentage. Milton.

See Parquetry.

Division; the act of dividing or sharing. [Obs.] Fuller.

In bats, an expansion of the integument uniting the fore limb with the body and extending between the elongated fingers to form the wing; in birds, the similar fold of integument uniting the fore limb with the body.

Of or pertaining to Patagonia. -- n.

Packs or bales of Spanish wool.

A work in five different tongues.

ing five angles, and, consequently, five sides; any figure having five angles. Regular pentagon, a pentagon in which the angles are all equal, and the sides all equal.

Having five corners or angles. Pentagonal dodecahedron. See Dodecahedron, and Pyritohedron.

In the form of a pentagon; with five angles. Sir T. Browne.

Pentagonal.

A pentacle or a pentalpha. "Like a wizard pentagram." Tennyson.

Pantographic. See Pantograph.

A Linnæan order of plants, having five styles or pistils.

Of or pertaining to plants of the order Pentagyna; having five styles.

A certain rate per cent; the allowance, duty, rate of interest, discount, or commission, on a hundred.