Pen"ni*form (?), a. [L. penna feather + -form: cf. F. penniforme.]
Having the form of a feather or plume.
Pen*nig"er*ous (?), a. [L. penniger; penna feather + gerere to bear.]
(Zoˆl.) Bearing feathers or quills.
Pen"ni*less (?), a. [From Penny.] Destitute of money; impecunious;
poor. -- Pen"ni*less*ness, n.
Pen"ni*nerved` (?), a. [L. penna feather + E. nerve.] Pinnately veined
or nerved.
Pen*nip"o*tent (?), a. [L. pennipotens; penna wing + potens strong.]
Strong of wing; strong on the wing. [Poetic] Davies (Holy Roode).
Pen"non (?), n. [Cf. Pinion.] A wing; a pinion. Milton.
Pen"non, n. [See Pennant.] A pennant; a flag or streamer. Longfellow.
{ Pen"non*cel`, Pen"non*celle` (?) }, n. [OF. penoncel. See Pennant.]
See Pencel.
Pen"ny (?), a. [Perh. a corruption of pun, for pound.] Denoting pound
weight for one thousand; -- used in combination, with respect to nails;
as, tenpenny nails, nails of which one thousand weight ten pounds.
Pen*ny, n.; pl. Pennies (#) or Pence (&?;). Pennies denotes the number
of coins; pence the amount of pennies in value. [OE. peni, AS. penig,
pening, pending; akin to D. penning, OHG. pfenning, pfenting, G.
pfennig, Icel. penningr; of uncertain origin.] 1. An English coin,
formerly of copper, now of bronze, the twelfth part of an English
shilling in account value, and equal to four farthings, or about two
cents; -- usually indicated by the abbreviation d. (the initial of
denarius).
"The chief Anglo-Saxon coin, and for a long period the only one,
corresponded to the denarius of the Continent . . . [and was] called
penny, denarius, or denier." R. S. Poole. The ancient silver penny was
worth about three pence sterling (see Pennyweight). The old Scotch
penny was only one twelfth the value of the English coin. In the United
States the word penny is popularly used for cent.