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Penultimate
n.
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The penult.
Penumbra
n.
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An incomplete or partial shadow.
Penumbra
n.
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The shadow cast, in an eclipse, where the light is partly, but not wholly, cut off by the intervening body; the space of partial illumination between the umbra, or perfect shadow, on all sides, and the full light.
Penumbra
n.
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The part of a picture where the shade imperceptibly blends with the light.
Penumbrala
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Of or pertaining to a penumbra; resembling a penumbra; partially illuminated.
Penurious
a.
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Excessively sparing in the use of money; sordid; stingy; miserly.
Penurious
a.
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Not bountiful or liberal; scanty.
Penurious
a.
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Destitute of money; suffering extreme want.
Penury
n.
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Absence of resources; want; privation; indigence; extreme poverty; destitution.
Penury
n.
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Penuriousness; miserliness.
Penwiper
n.
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A cloth, or other material, for wiping off or cleaning ink from a pen.
Penwomen
pl.
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of Penwoman
Penwoman
n.
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A female writer; an authoress.
Peon
n.
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See Poon.
Peon
n.
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A foot soldier; a policeman; also, an office attendant; a messenger.
Peon
n.
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A day laborer; a servant; especially, in some of the Spanish American countries, debtor held by his creditor in a form of qualified servitude, to work out a debt.
Peon
n.
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See 2d Pawn.
Peonage
n.
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The condition of a peon.
Peonism
n.
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Same as Peonage.
Peonies
pl.
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of Peony
Peony
n.
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A plant, and its flower, of the ranunculaceous genus Paeonia. Of the four or five species, one is a shrub; the rest are perennial herbs with showy flowers, often double in cultivation.
People
n.
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The body of persons who compose a community, tribe, nation, or race; an aggregate of individuals forming a whole; a community; a nation.
People
n.
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Persons, generally; an indefinite number of men and women; folks; population, or part of population; as, country people; -- sometimes used as an indefinite subject or verb, like on in French, and man in German; as, people in adversity.
People
n.
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The mass of comunity as distinguished from a special class; the commonalty; the populace; the vulgar; the common crowd; as, nobles and people.
People
n.
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One's ancestors or family; kindred; relations; as, my people were English.
People
n.
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One's subjects; fellow citizens; companions; followers.
Peopled
imp. & p. p.
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of People
Peopling
p. pr. & vb. n.
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of People
People
v. t.
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To stock with people or inhabitants; to fill as with people; to populate.
Peopled
a.
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Stocked with, or as with, people; inhabited.