penticet (pent is)

[Also pentise; And ore their heads an iron pentise vast They built, by ioyning many a shield and targe. Fairfax, tr. of Ta o, xi. 33. Every street of spec i all note being on both sides thereof, from the pentices of their houses to the lower end of the wall, hanged with rich cloth of arras. Coryat, Crudities, I. 38, sig. D. penticlet (pen'ti-kl), n. Same as pentacle . Fair fax , tr. of Ta o, xviii. 74. pentile (pen'til), n. [A corruption of pantile , simulating pentice .] Same as pantile . c, larva, enlarged; e, moth, hair-line showing natural size. of which 19 are of North America and 4 North America and Europe. P. he be san a is found from Maine to California, feeding in the larval state on the buds of flowers of the verbena, snapdragon, and Tigridia.