Penthina (penthina)

[NL. (Treitschke, 1830), IMG:content-2652.jpg:[blocks in formation] Verbena-bud Moth ( Penthina he be san a). IMG:content-2653.png:[blocks in formation] or end of a building, and sometimes constructed over a door or window to protect it from the weather; an app entice. See also cut under app entice. As a Pent - house doth preserue a Wall From Rain and Hail, and other Storms that fall. Sylvester, tr. of Du Bartas's Weeks, i. 6. And strong power, like a pent - house , promises To shade you from opinion. Beau . and Fl ., Thierry and Theodoret, i. 1. 2. Anything resembling a penthouse, or occupying the same relative position with regard to something else. The houses are not despicable, but the high pent - houses (for I can hardly call them cloysters, being all of wood), thro' which the people pa drie and in the shade, winter and summer, exceedingly deforme the fronts of the buildings. Evelyn, Diary, March 23, 1646. What is most singular is their houses on one side hav ing their pent - houses supported with pillars, which makes it a good walk. Pepys , Diary, June 15, 1668. Like a shrivelled beau from within the penthouse of a modern periwig. Swift , Battle of Books. He dragg'd his eyebrow bushes down, and made A snowy penthouse for his hollow eyes. Tennyson, Merlin and Vivien. penthouse (pent'hous), v. t.; pret. and pp. pent housed, ppr. pen you sing. [ The infer i our Mosques are built for the most part square, many pent-hous'd with open galleries, where they acc us to me to pray at times extraordinary. Sandys, Travailes, p. 25. These [wrens] find, 'mid ivied abbey-walls, A canopy in some still nook; Others are pent - housed by a brae That overhangs a brook. Words worth, A Wren's Nest.