Emily Dickinson Lexicon

PEN-TA-GYN'I-AN, a.

Having five styles.

PEN-TA-HE'DRAL, or PEN-TA-HE'DROUS, a.

Having five equal sides.

PEN-TA-HE'DRON, n. [Gr. πεντε, five, and εδρα, a side or base.]

A figure having five equal sides.

PEN-TA-HEX-A-HE'DRAL, a. [Gr. πεντε, five, and hexahedral.]

In crystalography, exhibiting five ranges of faces one above another, each range containing six faces. – Cleaveland.

PEN-TAM'E-TER, a.

Having five metrical feet. – Warton.

PEN-TAM'E-TER, n. [Gr. πεντε, five, and μετρον, measure.]

In ancient poetry, a verse of five feet. The two first feet may be either dactyls or spondees; the third is always a spondee, and the two last anapests. A pentameter verse subjoined to a hexameter, constitutes what is called elegiac. – Encyc.

PEN-TAN'DER, n. [Gr. πεντε, five, and ανηρ, a male.]

In botany, an hermaphrodite plant having five stamens with distinct filaments, not connected with the pistil.

PEN-TAN'DRI-AN, a.

hermaphrodite; having five stamens with distinct filaments not connected with the pistil.

PEN-TAN'GU-LAR, a. [Gr. πεντε, five, and angular.]

Having five corners or angles. – Grew.

PEN-TA-PET'AL-OUS, a. [Gr. πεντε, five, and πεταλον, a petal.]

Having five petals or flower leaves. – Encyc.

PEN-TAPH'YL-LOUS, a. [Gr. πεντε, five, and φυλλον, a leaf.]

Having five leaves.

PEN'TAR-CHY, n. [Gr. πεντε, five, and αρχη, rule.]

A government in the hands of five persons. – Brewer.

PEN'TA-SPAST, n. [Gr. πεντε, five, and σπαω, to draw.]

An engine with five pulleys. – Dict.

PEN-TA-SPERM'OUS, a. [Gr. πεντε, five, and σπερμα, seed.]

Containing five seeds. – Encyc.

PEN'TA-STICH, n. [Gr. πεντε, five, and στιχος, verse.]

A composition consisting of five verses. – Dict.

PEN'TA-STYLE, n. [Gr. πεντε, five, and στυλος, a column.]

In architecture, an edifice having five columns in front. – Elmes.

PEN'TA-TEUCH, n. [Gr. πεντε, five, and τευχος, a book or composition.]

The first five books of the Old Testament.

PEN'TE-CON-TER, n. [from the Greek.]

A Grecian vessel of fifty oars, smaller than a trireme. – Milford.

PEN'TE-COST, n. [Gr. πεντεκοστη, πεντεκοστος, fiftieth.]

1. A solemn festival of the Jews, so called because celebrated on the fiftieth day after the sixteenth of Nisan, which was the second day of the passover. It was called the feast of weeks, because it was celebrated seven weeks after the passover. It was instituted to oblige the people to repair to the temple of the Lord, there to acknowledge his absolute dominion over the country, and offer him the first fruits of their harvest; also that they might call to mind and give thanks to God for the law which he had given them at Sinai on the fiftieth day from their departure from Egypt. – Calmet. Encyc.
2. Whitsuntide, a solemn feast of the church, held in commemoration of the descent of the Holy Spirit on the apostles. – Acts ii.

PEN'TE-COST-AL, a.

Pertaining to Whitsuntide. – Sanderson.

PEN-TE-COS'TALS, n.

Oblations formerly made by parishioners to the parish priest at the feast of Pentecost, and sometimes by inferior churches to the mother church. – Cowel.

PENT'HOUSE, n. [Fr. pente, a slope and house. In Welsh, penty.]

A shed standing aslope from the main wall or building.

PEN'TICE, n. [It. pendice, a declivity, from L. pendo, to bend.]

A sloping roof. [Little used.] – Wotton.

PEN'TILE, n. [Fr. pente, a bending, and tile.]

A tile for covering the sloping part of a roof. [Qu. pantile.] – Johnson.

PEN'TRE-MITE, n.

A genus of zoophytes or fossil shells.