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].”-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.)
Shakespeare: Twelfth Night, ii. 2.
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).