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Pension
n.
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A payment; a tribute; something paid or given.
Pension
n.
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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.
Pension
n.
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A certain sum of money paid to a clergyman in lieu of tithes.
Pension
n.
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A boarding house or boarding school in France, Belgium, Switzerland, etc.
Pensioned
imp. & p. p.
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of Pension
Pensioning
p. pr. & vb. n.
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of Pension
Pension
v. t.
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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.
Pensionary
a.
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Maintained by a pension; receiving a pension; as, pensionary spies.
Pensionary
a.
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Consisting of a pension; as, a pensionary provision for maintenance.
Pensionaries
pl.
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of Pensionary
Pensionary
n.
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One who receives a pension; a pensioner.
Pensionary
n.
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One of the chief magistrates of towns in Holland.
Pensioner
n.
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One in receipt of a pension; hence, figuratively, a dependent.
Pensioner
n.
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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.
Pensioner
n.
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In the university of Cambridge, England, one who pays for his living in commons; -- corresponding to commoner at Oxford.
Pensive
a.
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Thoughtful, sober, or sad; employed in serious reflection; given to, or favorable to, earnest or melancholy musing.
Pensive
a.
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Expressing or suggesting thoughtfulness with sadness; as, pensive numbers.
Pensived
a.
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Made pensive.
Pensively
adv.
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In a pensive manner.
Pensiveness
n.
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The state of being pensive; serious thoughtfulness; seriousness.
Penstock
n.
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A close conduit or pipe for conducting water, as, to a water wheel, or for emptying a pond, or for domestic uses.
Penstock
n.
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The barrel of a wooden pump.
Pent
v. t.
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Penned or shut up; confined; -- often with up.
Penta-
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A combining form denoting five; as, pentacapsular; pentagon.
Penta-
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Denoting the degree of five, either as regards quality, property, or composition; as, pentasulphide; pentoxide, etc. Also used adjectively.
Pentabasic
a.
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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.
Pentacapsular
a.
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Having five capsules.
Pentachenium
n.
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A dry fruit composed of five carpels, which are covered by an epigynous calyx and separate at maturity.
Pentachloride
n.
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A chloride having five atoms of chlorine in each molecule.
Pentachord
n.
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An ancient instrument of music with five strings.