pensiveness

[Eng. pensive; -ne .] The quality or state of being pensive; sad or melancholy thoughtfulne ; serious musing. "I will not leave Iarbas whom I love In this delight of dying pensivene ." Marlowe: Dido, Queen of Carthage , iv. 2. pěn'-stock s . [Eng. pen (1), and stock .] 1. A conduit for water, usually of boards, and notably a trough of planks, which conducts the water to a water-wheel. It begins at the end of the race, of which it forms a continuation, and ends at the gate, which is lifted to discharge the water on to the wheel; a shuttle or pen-trough. 2. A sluice or flood-gate restraining the waters of a mill-pond, race, or sewer. 3. A flood-gate used in inundating certain parts of fortified works. 4. The barrel of a pump in which the piston plays, and through which the water pa es up. pěn-sỹ, pěn-siě, a. [French pens if =pensive; pensée thought.] Proud and conceited; spruce. (Scotch.) pěnt, pa . par . or a . [PEN (1), v.] Penned or shut up; closely confined. (Often followed by up.) ( Scott : Lady of the Lake , v. 33.)