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 ALMONDBUBT AND HUDDERSFIELD. 99 spoke of a pinker in the evebrow, wbateyer that may mean.' A poor fellow about here, who had drooping eyelids, iLsed to be teased by impudent boys, who entreated him to sell them a penn'orth of * peitkin drops.' [To pink is used by Keywood for * to peer.' See Nares's Glossary. Dutch pinken, to wink, leer. — ^W. W. S.] Pennett, a kind of sweetmeat, of the humbug species, cut in form like a double pyramid. [Occurs in Piers tJie Plowman ^ B. v. 123. OJFt.^ pSnide; Mediseyal Greek wtiviiiovt the diminutive of vr/vti, a throEMi. Properly applied to twisted sticks of barley-sugar. * Penide, f. a pennet; the little wreath of sugar taken in a cold.' Cotgrave. — W. W. S.] Penny^ a word used to describe the appearance of birds when moult- ing, the feathers sticking up, or being otherwise irregular. A young bird, in its process of commg to maturity, is first nakt (which see), then in blue pen, then flegg'd. Penny Cast, the name of a game played with round flat stones, about four or six inches across, being similar to the game of quoits; some- times played with pennies, when the Iiohs are a deal nigher. It was not played with pennies in 1810. Pentys. So spelt in old documents. A part of the street at the bottom of Almondbury was called Pentys End, possibly from a roof over the churchyard gate close by. Hall, spells the word pentice, but gives also pentea and pentys. He says it means, amongst other things, 147, among extracts from the accounts of the church of Durham, we find: ' 1425-6. Paid for makinc; the organs 6. 8. One Pentys made anew 10. 0.' And in a note below on the word pentys Kaine writes thus : ' Primarily a porch or some such matter, '* Pentidum, appendix sedis, gurgustium, tuguriolum parieti affixum." — Du Fresne. It is, perhaps, no great stretch of supposition to conceive that the small partitioned-off recess within the feretory, appropriated to its keeper, is here to be imder- stood under the term pentys; it was literally his pent-hotise.' The Promptorium Parvulorum gives * Pentyce, of an house end, Appendi- cium, imbulus, appendix.' Oaxton, in The Poke of the Fayt of Armes, explains how a fortress ought to be supplied with fr^sh water, cisterns being provided ' where men may receiue inne the rayne watres that fallen doune a-long the thackes of thappe/nityzes and houses.' The Camden Society's edition of the Promptorium, from which this last extract is taken, also gives the following : ' Bp. Kennett states l^at in Chester there was a informed that boys playing at the game oaUedJ stag ' at Lidget, " " ~ baandaries informant ^ ^ ^ ^, which seems to me all the more probable, as I have heard of * pent-houses ' else- where. [Pent'hoiue is a corruption of pentis, which is the O.Fr. op€n<w.— W. W. 8.] H 2
 * an open shed or projection over a door.' In Raine's St. Cuthhert, p.
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