PENSIONER

One who fa supported by an allowance at the will or another; a deP pendent. It is usually applied (in a public sense) to those who receive pensions or annuities from government, who are chiefly such as have retired from places or honor and emolument. Jacob. Persons making periodical payments are sometimes so called. Thus, resident undergraduates of the university o't Cambridge, who are not on the foundation or any college, are spoken of as ''pensioners." Mozley & Whitley.· PENT-ROAD, A road shut up or closed at Its terminal points. Wolcott v. Whitcomb, 40 Vt. 41. PENTECOSTALS, In ecclesiastical law. Pious oblations made at the feast of Pentecost by parishioners to their priests, and sometimes by inferior churches or parishes to the principal mother churches.' They are also called "Whitsun farthings." Wharton. [s. 894]