Pendant. In Heraldry, drooping.
Pendant Key-stone. A synonym of Pendentive. (See this word and Furca.)
Pendants, Arch. Ornaments hanging down from the ceilings and roofs of Gothic architecture. Generally, a pair of pictures or statues appropriate to each other are called pendant each of the other.
Pendentives, Arch. In a spherical roof intersected with groined compartments, the term pendentives was applied to the surfaces included between such compartments. The same term is applied to the surfaces included in the angles formed by a groined vaulting at its spring.
Penetrale, R. An inner apartment. (Cf. Adytum.)
Penicillum, Penicillus, R. (penis, a tail). (Gr. ὑπογραφίς.) A painter’s pencil or brush. The brushes of the ancients were made either with hair or a kind of sea-weed or sponge.
Peniculus. Synonym of Penicillum.
Penna, R. A quill, a large and strong feather, in contradistinction to pluma, which denotes the small feathers spread over a bird’s body; and thence a writing-pen, which was used instead of the arundo or calamus.
Penna, Med. During the Middle Ages this term was used to denote the battlements of a castle wall, and thence the castle itself.
