Appension :: Appension (n.) The act of appending.

Pension :: Pension (n.) A payment; a tribute; something paid or given.

Pension :: Pension (n.) A stated allowance to a person in consideration of past services; payment made to one retired from service, on account of age, disability, or other cause; especially, a regular stipend paid by a government to retired public officers, disabled soldiers, the families of soldiers killed in service, or to meritorious authors, or the like..

Pension :: Pension (n.) A certain sum of money paid to a clergyman in lieu of tithes.

Pension :: Pension (n.) A boarding house or boarding school in France, Belgium, Switzerland, etc..

Pension :: Pension (v. t.) To grant a pension to; to pay a regular stipend to; in consideration of service already performed; -- sometimes followed by off; as, to pension off a servant..

Pensionaries :: Pensionaries (pl. ) of Pensionar.

Pensionary :: Pensionary (a.) Maintained by a pension; receiving a pension; as, pensionary spies..

Pensionary :: Pensionary (a.) Consisting of a pension; as, a pensionary provision for maintenance..

Pensionary :: Pensionary (n.) One who receives a pension; a pensioner.

Pensionary :: Pensionary (n.) One of the chief magistrates of towns in Holland.

Pensioned :: Pensioned (imp. & p. p.) of Pensio.

Pensioner :: Pensioner (n.) One in receipt of a pension; hence, figuratively, a dependent..

Pensioner :: Pensioner (n.) One of an honorable band of gentlemen who attend the sovereign of England on state occasions, and receive an annual pension, or allowance, of £150 and two horses..

Pensioner :: Pensioner (n.) In the university of Cambridge, England, one who pays for his living in commons; -- corresponding to commoner at Oxford..

Pensioning :: Pensioning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Pensio.

Perpension :: Perpension (n.) Careful consideration; pondering.

Propension :: Propension (n.) The quality or state of being propense; propensity.

Suspension :: Suspensible (a.) Capable of being suspended; capable of being held from sinking.

Suspension :: Suspension (n.) The act of suspending, or the state of being suspended; pendency; as, suspension from a hook..

Suspension :: Suspension (n.) Especially, temporary delay, interruption, or cessation.

Suspension :: Suspension (n.) Of labor, study, pain, etc..

Suspension :: Suspension (n.) Of decision, determination, judgment, etc.; as, to ask a suspension of judgment or opinion in view of evidence to be produced..

Suspension :: Suspension (n.) Of the payment of what is due; as, the suspension of a mercantile firm or of a bank..

Suspension :: Suspension (n.) Of punishment, or sentence of punishment..

Suspension :: Suspension (n.) Of a person in respect of the exercise of his office, powers, prerogative, etc.; as, the suspension of a student or of a clergyman..

Suspension :: Suspension (n.) Of the action or execution of law, etc.; as, the suspension of the habeas corpus act..

Suspension :: Suspension (n.) A conditional withholding, interruption, or delay; as, the suspension of a payment on the performance of a condition..

Suspension :: Suspension (n.) The state of a solid when its particles are mixed with, but undissolved in, a fluid, and are capable of separation by straining; also, any substance in this state..

Suspension :: Suspension (n.) A keeping of the hearer in doubt and in attentive expectation of what is to follow, or of what is to be the inference or conclusion from the arguments or observations employed..

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