PENIBLE
Pen*i"ble, a. Etym: [OF. penible. Cf. Painable.]
Defn: Painstaking; assidous. [Obs.] Chaucer.
PENICIL Pen"i*cil, n. Etym: [L. penicillum, penicillus, a painter's brush, a roil of lint, a tent for wounds.] (mented.)
Defn: A tent or pledget for wounds or ulcers.
PENICILLATE
Pen`i*cil"late, a. Etym: [Cf. F. pénicillé. See Penicil.] (Biol.)
Defn: Having the form of a pencil; furnished with a pencil of fine hairs; ending in a tuft of hairs like a camel's-hair brush, as the stigmas of some grasses.
PENICILLIFORM
Pen`i*cil"li*form, a. (Bot.)
Defn: Penicillate.
PENINSULA Pen*in"su*la, n. Etym: [L. peninsula or paeninsula; paene almost + insula an island. See Isle.]
Defn: A portion of land nearly surrounded by water, and connected with a larger body by a neck, or isthmus.