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  • English Word Penalize Definition To make penal.
  • English Word Penalize Definition To put a penalty on. See Penalty, 3.
  • English Word Penally Definition In a penal manner.
  • English Word Penalties Definition of Penalty
  • English Word Penalty Definition Penal retribution; punishment for crime or offense; the suffering in person or property which is annexed by law or judicial decision to the commission of a crime, offense, or trespass.
  • English Word Penalty Definition The suffering, or the sum to be forfeited, to which a person subjects himself by covenant or agreement, in case of nonfulfillment of stipulations; forfeiture; fine.
  • English Word Penalty Definition A handicap.
  • English Word Penance Definition Repentance.
  • English Word Penance Definition Pain; sorrow; suffering.
  • English Word Penance Definition A means of repairing a sin committed, and obtaining pardon for it, consisting partly in the performance of expiatory rites, partly in voluntary submission to a punishment corresponding to the transgression. Penance is the fourth of seven sacraments in the Roman Catholic Church.
  • English Word Penance Definition To impose penance; to punish.
  • English Word Penanced Definition of Penance
  • English Word Penanceless Definition Free from penance.
  • English Word Penang nut Definition The betel nut.
  • English Word Penannular Definition Nearly annular; having nearly the form of a ring.
  • English Word Penary Definition Penal.
  • English Word Penates Definition The household gods of the ancient Romans. They presided over the home and the family hearth. See Lar.
  • English Word Penaunt Definition A penitent.
  • English Word Pence Definition pl. of Penny. See Penny.
  • English Word Pence Definition of Penny
  • English Word Pencel Definition A small, narrow flag or streamer borne at the top of a lance; -- called also pennoncel.
  • English Word Penchant Definition Inclination; decided taste; bias; as, a penchant for art.
  • English Word Penchute Definition See Penstock.
  • English Word Pencil Definition A small, fine brush of hair or bristles used by painters for laying on colors.
  • English Word Pencil Definition A slender cylinder or strip of black lead, colored chalk, slate etc., or such a cylinder or strip inserted in a small wooden rod intended to be pointed, or in a case, which forms a handle, -- used for drawing or writing. See Graphite.
  • English Word Pencil Definition Hence, figuratively, an artist's ability or peculiar manner; also, in general, the act or occupation of the artist, descriptive writer, etc.
  • English Word Pencil Definition An aggregate or collection of rays of light, especially when diverging from, or converging to, a point.
  • English Word Pencil Definition A number of lines that intersect in one point, the point of intersection being called the pencil point.
  • English Word Pencil Definition A small medicated bougie.
  • English Word Pencil Definition To write or mark with a pencil; to paint or to draw.