pentacle (pen′takl)

[ Also penticle; that this is the six-pointed star formed of two triangles interlaced or superposed. (Compare Solomon's seal, under seal.) Obviously, the pentacle must be a five-pointed or five-membered object, and it should be considered as equivalent to the pentagram or pentalpha. (See also pen tangle.) The construction of the five-pointed star depends upon an abstruse proposition discovered in the Pythagorean school, and this star seems to have been from that time adopted as their seal. They have their crystals, I do know, and rings, And virgin-parchment, and their dead men's skulls, Their ravens' wings, their lights, and pentacles , With characters. B. Jonson, Devil is an A , i. 2. His shoes were marked with cro and spell; Upon his breast a pentacle . Scott , Marmion, iii. 20. The potent pentacle, ie a figure of three trigons inW. H. For man, in Jour. Brit. Archeol. A ., XIX. 140. terlaced and formed of five lines. five, + κόκκος, a berry, a kernel: see coccus.] In bot., having or containing five grains or seeds, or having five united cells with one seed in each. Pentacrinidæ (pen-ta-krin'i-dē), n. pl. [NL.,