Chapter Pennalism to Pentreath of P by Brewer's Phrase & Fable

The Yih-King, or Book of Changes; and (5) The Chun-Ts'eu, or Spring and Autumn Annals.
   The Samaritan Pentateuch. A version of the Pentateuch in the Samaritan character. It varies in some measure from the Jewish version. Not earlier than the fourth, nor later than the seventh, century. (See Apocrypha: 2 Esdras xiv. 21-48.)

Pentecost (Greek, pentecostê, fiftieth). The festival held by the Jews on the fiftieth day after the Passover; our Whit-Sunday.

Penthesile'a Queen of the Amazons, slain by Achilles. Sir Toby Belch says to Maria, in the service of Olivia-

“Good-night, Penthesilea [my fine woman].”-
Shakespeare: Twelfth Night, ii. 2.

Penthouse (2 syl.). A hat with a broad brim. The allusion is to the hood of a door, or coping of a roof. (Welsh, penty; Spanish, pentice, French, appentice, also pente, a slope.)

Pentreath (Dolly). The last person who spoke Cornish. Daines Barrington went from London to the Land's End to visit her. She lived at Mousehole.

“Hail, Mousehole! birthplace of old Doll Pentreath,
The last who jabbered Cornish, so says Daines ...”
Peter Pindar (Ode xxi., To Myself).