PENSIONER

Literally, one who receives a pension or allowance. At the universities of Cambridge, however, and Dublin, this term has a peculiar meaning, being applied to those students who live at their own expense, t. e., without any support from the beneficent foundations of the remoner,spectiveatOxford,colleges. In this sense it is synonymous with com PENT A CRINITES. (Yunanca köken — orijinale bakınız.) The name of a tribe of Bchinoderms, comprehending those in which the animal consists of an angular, jointed, flexible column, fixed at the base, and supporting on its free extremity a concave disc or body, terminating in five dichotomizing, jointed, semicvlindrical arms. Most of the species and genera of this tribe arc extinct. [s. 929]