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,
- an open shed or projection over a door.' In Raine's St. Cuthhert, p.
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
- < CVLHA penticiarwn tenta in auld ventidd ejusdem civitatis." * I am
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
