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pl. of Penny. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Pensive. [Obs.] Shelton.

A pencel. Chaucer.

Held aloft. [Obs.] Bacon.

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.

See Acipenser.

A genus of ganoid fishes, including the sturgeons, having the body armed with bony scales, and the mouth on the under side of the head. See Sturgeon.

A long staff, pointed with iron, used in climbing the Alps. Cheever.

The act of appending. [Obs.]

o; to remunerate; to recompence; to give an equivalent to; to requite suitably; as, to compensate a laborer for his work, or a merchant for his losses.

The act or principle of compensating. Emerson.