penniless (peniles)

[ Without a penny; moneyle ; poor. Hung'ring, pennile , and far from home. Cowper , Task, i. 119. Pennile bencht, a public seat for loungers and idlers in Oxford: used allusively with reference to poverty. Euery stoole he sate on was penniles bench, his robes were rags. ... Lyly , Euphues and his England (ed. Arber), p. 244. Bid him bear up, he shall not Sit long on pennile bench. Mas singer, City Madam, iv. 1. pennile ne (pen'i-les-nes), n. The state of being pennile or without money. pennill (pen'il), n. [W. pennill, pl. pennillion, a verse, stanza.] A form of verse used at the Welsh eisteddfod, in which the singer has to adapt his words and measure to the playing of a harper who changes the tune, the time, etc., and introduces variations. Pennatuleæ (pen-a-tūʻlē-ē), n . pl . [NL., Penna- tula + -ex .] A section of polyps, distinguished by a bilateral arrangement of the polyps on the rachis, which is elongated and cylindrical, and provided with pinnules or leaves. penna tule ous (pen-a-tu ́lē-us), à. Of or per- taining to the Pennatuleæ . Pennatulidæ (pen-a-tū'li-dē), n . pl . [NL., Pennatula + -idæ .] A family of polyps, with Jones, Bardic Remains, quoted in Encyc. Brit., well-developed pinnules and the zoöids on the [VII. 792, note. ventral and lateral sides of the rachis. See cut under Alcyonaria.