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Show P:ErN PE Perrvcy'prty. ) # /. [from pellucid. PeLru'cipwness. § Tranfparency; clearnefs ; not opacity The air is a clear and pellucid menftruum, i which the infenfible particles of diffolved matte float, without troubling the pellucidity of the air when on a fudden by a precipitation they gathe Locke into vifible mifty drops that make clouds We confider their pellucidnefs, and the vaf quantity of light that pafles through them withou Keil refletion . /. [from pellis, Latin. Perr hide 1. Skin The camel's hair is taken for the fkin or pel Brown Vulgar Errours with the hair upon it A {cabby tetter on their pelts will ftick When the raw rain has pierc'd them to the quick Dryden Ain/ 2. The quarry of a hawk all torn 7. /[. [pellio, Latin ; pel PeLT-MONGER A dealer in raw hides and monger. Skin [poltern, German . a To PerLT ner; contratted from pellet, Mr. Lye. I 1. To firike with fomething thrown is generally ufed of fomething thrown rather with teazing frequency than deftru&ive violence Poor naked wretches, wherefoe'er you are That bide the pelting of this pitilefs ftorm How fhall your houfelefs heads and unfed fides Your loop'd and window'd raggednefs defend you Shakefpeare Do but ftand upon the foaming thore The chiding billows feem to pe/t the clouds. Shak No zealous brother there would want a fton To maul us cardinals, and pe/t pope Joan. Dryden Obfcure perfons have infulted men of grea worth, and pelted them from coverts with littl Atterbury objections Fhe whole empire could hardly fubdue me, an T might eafily with ftones pe/t the metropolis t Swift pieces 2. To throw to caft My Phillis me with pelted apples plies Then tripping to the woods the wanton hies. Dryd Pe'vring. adj. This word in Shake/pear fignifies, I know not why, mean; pal try; pitiful great me Coul thunder, Jove could ne'er b quiet Yor every pelting petty office Shakefpeare Would ufe his heav''n for thunder Fogs falling in-the land Have every pelting river made fo proud "That they have overborn their continents. Shakefp "Fhey from fheepcotes and poor pelting village Shakefpeare Enforce their charity Shakelpeare A tenement or pelting farm. PEEVIS u. / [Lat. The lower par of the belly Pew. n./. [penna, Latin. 1, An inftroment of writing Never durft poet touch a pen to write Until his ink were temper'd with love's fighs Shakefpeare Cternal deities Who write whatever time fhall bring to pafs Dryden With gens of adamtant on plates of brafs He takes the papers, lays them down again And, with unwilling fingers, tries the pen. Dryden He remembers not that he tuok off pen fro Fell paper till he had done ¥ can, by defigning the letters, tell what new ide it thall exhibit the next moment, barely by drawing my fen over it, which will neither appear, i my hands ftand fill; or though I move my pen Locke if my eyes be fhut z. Feather I'h Wer though even here it may mea Jeatber Feather'd foon and fledg'd They fumm'd their pens 3 and foaring th' air {ublime With clang defpis'd the ground. Ailton's Par. Loft A {mallin 4. [From pennan, Saxon. clofure ; a coop My father ftole twa,geefe out of a pen. Shake[p The cook was ordered to drefs capons for fupL'Eftrange per, and take the beft in the pen She in pens his flocks will fold. . Dryden's Hor Ducks in thy ponds, and chickens in thy pens And be thy turkeys num'rous as thy hens. ~ King 7o PEN. w. a. pret. and part. pafl. gent [pennan and pinban, Saxon. 1. T to fhu coop t up incage s 71 imprifon in a narrow place Shakefpeare Away with her, and pen her up My heavy fo Shakefpeare Private in his chamber pens himfelf The plaifter alone would pen the humour already contained in the part, and forbid new huBacon mour Their armour help'd their harm, crufh'd in an bruis'd Milton Into their fubftance pent As when a prowling wol Whom hunger drives to feck new haunt for prey Watching where fhepherds pen their flocks at ev In hurdled cotes, amid the field fecure Leaps o'er the fence with eafe into the fold. Milton The glafs, wherein it is penned up, hinders i to deliver itfelf by an expanfion of its parts. Boy/e ‘Th Jewif permi Ah To pe prevention of mifchief is prefcribed by th cuftom; they pen up their daughters, an them to be acquainted with none. Harwvey that your bufinefs had been mine Dryden the theep 2. [From the noun; pret. and part. pafl penned.] T'o write. It probably mean at firft only the manual exercife of th pen, or mechanical part of writing but it has been long ufed with- relatio to the ftile or compofition For prey thefe fhepherds two hetook ‘Whofe metal fiff he knew he could not ben With hearfay pictures, or a window look ‘With one good dance or letter finely penn'd. Sidney I would be loath to caft away my fpeech ; for befides that it is excellently well penn'd, I hav Shake[peare taken great pains to con it Read this challenge, mark but the penning of it Shakefpeare A fentence fpoken by him in Englifh, an penne ou of his mouth by four goo for trial of ou them H frequente was fet down b Camden's Remains orthography fermons fecretaries and penned note wit Hayavard on Edward V1 his own hand The precepts penned, or preached by the hol Apoftles, were as divine and as perpetual in refpec White of obligation The digefting my thoughts into order, and th fetting them down in writing was neceflary; fo without fuch ftri€t examination, as the pennin them affords, they would have been disjointed an Digby on the Soul roving ones Almoft condemn'd, he mov'd the judges thus Hear, but inftead of me, my Oedipus The judges hearing with appiaufe, at th' en Freed him, and faid, no fool fuch lines had pens'd Denbam Gentleme fhoul extempore or afte a littl meditation, fpeak to fome. fubje without pennin of any thing Locke Should I publith the praifes that are fo well pen ned, they would do honou write them to the perfons wh Addifon ‘Twenty fools I never fa ae with petitions fairly penn'd | 1K 3. Wing PE ma s canvas lin'd 1g I fhould ftand their friend 1. Denouncing punithment; e na&ing P nifhment Gratitud Spenfer. l Pe'nav, adj. [ penal, Fr, from pena, Lat. hey yy AIn.th as flll)all more cffgz'?::fifi y incline him i of man ;L}:;S izx.ravc and becoming than the terror (:gfa:{,; 2. Ufed for th purpofes o P pun P A%amantine chains and penal fire Milt Pexa'Liry. 2. [ [ penalité, old French, Liablenefs to punithment; condempg tion to punifhment Many of the ancients denied th fom unt the penalit Anti of contrarfirg:;?t,inzg but the experience of navigations can now afl'q Brown them beyond all dubitation PE'NAL_TY #. /. [from penalité, old By 1. Punifhment; cenfure tion judicial inflic Political power is a right of making laws wit penalties of death, and confequen alll lefs pena ties, for preferving property, and employing th force of the community in the execution of laws Locke Beneath her footftool, fcience groans in chain;, And wit dreads exile, penalties, and pains. Dunciad 2. Forfeiture upon non-performace Lend this money, notas to thy friend But lend it rather to thine enemy Who, if he break, thou may'ft with better fac Exa& the penalty. Shake[peare's Merchantof Venite PencEe. n /. ‘The plural of penny; formed from pennies, by a contraction ufua in the rapidity of colloquial fpeech The fame fervant found one of his fellow-fervants, which owed him an hundred pence, an Mattbew took him by the throat Pe'~civ. a. f. [penicillam, Latin. 1. A fmall bruth of hair which painter dip in their colours The Indians will perfe€tly reprefent in feather Heyhy whatfoever they fee drawn with pencils Pencils can by one {light touch reftor Smiles to that changed face, that wept before Drydfl For thee the groves green liv'ries wear For thee the graces lead the dancing hours, An nature' read pemil paint the How'rs Dryti A fort of pictures there is, wherein the colours v ou ma le ta th o ci pé th b as la Lotk odd figures The faithful pencil has defign' Some bright idea of the mafter's mind Where a new world leaps out at his command Pap d ha hi up t wa ur na d re A to cu lc wh wi pe le a b 2 oint they write without ink ide con mo th ci pe o pe )' wit PMa bere a m m r m r f d y able things in the book 3. An infrumen ink Zo Py'nciL paint of writing withou @. ». [from the nou n m e r t n t f m a i Paintin ; m t w c f a t o o f For fince d a r g f ' i n p He is but outfid t o v g e t a c f Ev' Sbak:f;!;f" M P u r x h . 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