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  • English Word Pension Definition A payment; a tribute; something paid or given.
  • English Word Pension Definition A stated allowance to a person in consideration of past services; payment made to one retired from service, on account of age, disability, or other cause; especially, a regular stipend paid by a government to retired public officers, disabled soldiers, the families of soldiers killed in service, or to meritorious authors, or the like.
  • English Word Pension Definition A certain sum of money paid to a clergyman in lieu of tithes.
  • English Word Pension Definition A boarding house or boarding school in France, Belgium, Switzerland, etc.
  • English Word Pension Definition To grant a pension to; to pay a regular stipend to; in consideration of service already performed; -- sometimes followed by off; as, to pension off a servant.
  • English Word Pensionaries Definition of Pensionary
  • English Word Pensionary Definition Maintained by a pension; receiving a pension; as, pensionary spies.
  • English Word Pensionary Definition Consisting of a pension; as, a pensionary provision for maintenance.
  • English Word Pensionary Definition One who receives a pension; a pensioner.
  • English Word Pensionary Definition One of the chief magistrates of towns in Holland.
  • English Word Pensioned Definition of Pension
  • English Word Pensioner Definition One in receipt of a pension; hence, figuratively, a dependent.
  • English Word Pensioner Definition One of an honorable band of gentlemen who attend the sovereign of England on state occasions, and receive an annual pension, or allowance, of £150 and two horses.
  • English Word Pensioner Definition In the university of Cambridge, England, one who pays for his living in commons; -- corresponding to commoner at Oxford.
  • English Word Pensioning Definition of Pension
  • English Word Pensive Definition Thoughtful, sober, or sad; employed in serious reflection; given to, or favorable to, earnest or melancholy musing.
  • English Word Pensive Definition Expressing or suggesting thoughtfulness with sadness; as, pensive numbers.
  • English Word Pensived Definition Made pensive.
  • English Word Pensively Definition In a pensive manner.
  • English Word Pensiveness Definition The state of being pensive; serious thoughtfulness; seriousness.
  • English Word Penstock Definition A close conduit or pipe for conducting water, as, to a water wheel, or for emptying a pond, or for domestic uses.
  • English Word Penstock Definition The barrel of a wooden pump.
  • English Word Pent Definition of Pen
  • English Word Pent Definition Penned or shut up; confined; -- often with up.
  • English Word Penta- Definition A combining form denoting five; as, pentacapsular; pentagon.
  • English Word Penta- Definition Denoting the degree of five, either as regards quality, property, or composition; as, pentasulphide; pentoxide, etc. Also used adjectively.
  • English Word Pentabasic Definition Capable of uniting with five molecules of a monacid base; having five acid hydrogen atoms capable of substitution by a basic radical; -- said of certain acids.
  • English Word Pentacapsular Definition Having five capsules.
  • English Word Pentachenium Definition A dry fruit composed of five carpels, which are covered by an epigynous calyx and separate at maturity.
  • English Word Pentachloride Definition A chloride having five atoms of chlorine in each molecule.