PEN 
5. Penelope pipile, the piping curalTovv i back brown 
fpotted with black, belly black; caruncle on the chin blue. 
This fpecies was difcovered by Jacquin; and is readily 
didinguifiied by its hilling or piping noife. The Ikin is 
bare on the neck, and of a dull green, with a blue carun¬ 
cle on its throat. The head is partly black, and partly 
white; and adorned with a fliort creft, fimilar to, though 
fmaller than, the other fpecies. The irides are black,and 
the fpace round the eyes white: the belly and vent is 
white; but the back and wing-coverts are brown, waved 
or fpotted with deep black; legs and feet inclined to red. 
It is about the fize of a common fowl ; and is found in 
Guiana and Brafil; but is a fcarce bird. 
6. Penelope vociferans, the crying curaffow: brown; 
bill and bread blue, belly whitifh. This bird was fird in¬ 
troduced by Fernandez, who gives a very flight defcrip- 
tior.; viz. “ that the bill is bluifh ; the back brown ; the 
bread blue; and the belly of a whitifh brown; and that 
it is of the fame fize with the others.” It inhabits Mex¬ 
ico, and cries like other fowls, or rather like the whole 
family of the poultry-yard together; for it is fo loud and 
continual, that one of thefe often makes more noife than 
all the red of them put together. The Mexican name 
chachalacametl, fignifies crying bird. It is faid to frequent 
mountainous places, where it brings up its young. 
This lad has been removed by Dr. Turton to the end of 
the genus Crax. 
PENE'O, or Salam'pria, a river of Theflaly, which 
runs into the Egean Sea twenty miles ead of Lariffa. See 
Peneus. 
PENERA'RIUS, J] in old records, a dandard-bearer, 
the officer who bore the banner. 
PENETRABIL'ITY, f Sufceptibility of imprefiion 
from another body.—There being no mean between per 
intr ability and impenetrability, paflivityand aftivity, they 
being contrary; therefore the infinite rarefaction of the 
one quality is the pofition of its contrary. Cheyne's Phil. 
Principles. 
PEN'ETRABLE, adj. [Fr. penetrabilis, Lat.] Such as 
may be pierced; luch as may admit the entrance of ano¬ 
ther body: 
Let him try thy dart. 
And pierce his only penetrable part. Dry den. 
Sufceptive of moral or intellectual imprefiion : 
I am not made of done, 
But penetrable to your kind entreaties. Shahefpeare. 
PEN'ETRAIL, f. [ penetralia , Lat.] Interior parts. 
Not in vfe. —The heart refifts purulent fumes, into whole 
penetrails to infinuate forne time mud -be allowed. 
Harvey. 
PEN'ETRAL, f. The inner open part of a houfe, 
Vole. 
PENETRATE, /. A facred room or chapel in private 
bonfes, which was let apart for the worfliipof the houfe- 
I’.eld gods among the ancient Romans. In temples alfo 
there were penetralia, or apartments of didinguiflted fanc- 
tity, where the images of the gods were kept, and certain 
foiemn ceremonies performed. 
PEN'ETR ANCY, f. Power of entering or piercing.— 
The fubtility, aClivity, and penctrancy, of its effluvia, no 
obdacle can flop or repel, but they will make their way 
through all bodies. Kay cm the Creation. 
PEN'ETRANT, adj. Having the power to pierce or 
enter; fliarp ; fubtile.—The food, mingled with feme 
difiblvent juices, is evacuated into the intedines, where it 
is further fubtilized, and rendered fo fluid and penetrant, 
that the finer part finds its way in at the flreight orifices 
of the laCleous veins. Ray. —Having power to affeft the 
mind.—A moded and friendly ffyle doth fuit truth ; it, 
like its author, doth ufualiy refide (not in the rumbling 
wind, nor in the fhaking earthquake, nor in the raging 
fire, but) in the fmall dill voice: founding in this, it is 
mod audible, mod penetrant , and mod effectual. Barrow's 
PEN 537 
Serm. 4 on Tit. iii. 2.—-The learned writings of St.Audin, 
St. Hierom, &c. [and] penetrant and powerful argu¬ 
ments. Boyle's Style of H. Script. 
To PEN'ETRATE, n-.a. [penetro, Lat. penetrer, Fr.] 
To pierce ; to enter beyond the furface; to make way 
into a body.—Marrow is, of all other oily fubdances, 
the mod penetrating. Arbuthnol on Aliments. 
Thy groans 
Did make wolves howl, and penetrate the breads 
Of ever-angry bears. Shahefpeare's Tempejl. 
To affeft the mind. To reach the meaning.—There 
Ihall we clearly fee the ufes of thefe things, which here 
were too fubtile for us to penetrate. Ray. 
To PEN'ETRATE, v.n. To make way: 
Court-virtues bear, like gems, the highed rate 
Born where heav’n’s influence fcarce cm penetrate: 
Though the fame fun, with all-diffufive rays. 
Smile in the rofe, and in the diamond blaze, 
We praife the dronger effort of his power. 
And always fet the gem above the flower. Pope. 
To make way by the mind.—If we reached no farther 
than metaphor, we rather fancy than know, and have not 
yet penetrated into the infide and reality of the thing. 
Locke. 
PENETRA'TION, f. The aft of entering into any 
body : 
It warms 
The univerfe, and to each inward part 
With gentle penetration, though unfeen. 
Shoots invifible virtue even to the deep. Milton's P. L. 
Mental entrance into any thing abdrufe.—A penetration 
into the abdrufe difficulties and depths of modern alge¬ 
bra and fluxions, is not worth the labour of thofe who 
defign either of the three learned profeflions. Watts .— 
Acutenefs ; fagacity.—The prouded admirer of his own 
parts might confult with others, though of inferior capa¬ 
city and penetration. Watts. 
PEN'ETRATIVE, adj. Piercing; fliarp; fubtile.— 
Let not air be too grofs, nor too penetrative, nor fubjeft to 
any foggy noifomenefs from fens. Wotton. —Acute; faga- 
cious ; difeerning : 
O thou, whofe penetrative wifdom found 
The South-fea rocks and fhelves, wliere thoufands drown’d. 
Sivift's Mifcellauies. 
Having the power to imprefs the mind : 
Would’d thou fee 
Thy mader thus with pleacht arms bending down 
His corrigible neck, his face fubdu’d 
To penetrative fhame ? Shahefpeare. 
PEN'ETRATIVENESS, /. The quality of being pe¬ 
netrative. 
PE'NEUS, in ancient geography, a river of Theflaly, 
rifing on mount Pindus, and falling into the Thermean 
gulf, after a wandering courfe, between mount Offa and 
Olympus, through the plains of Tempi:. It received its 
name from Peneus, a fon of Oceanusand Tethys. The 
Peneus anciently inundated the plains of Theflaly, tiil 
an earthquake feparated the mountains Offa and Olympus, 
and formed the beautiful vale of Tempe, where the wa¬ 
ters formerly dagnated. From this circumdance, there¬ 
fore, it obtained the name of Araxes, from to 
cleave. The prefent name of Salampria is ancient, as, 
according to Eudathius, this river was in his time called 
Salimpi ius, a name, according to Hefychius, of Greek 
origin, aa.'hafin and fignifying the ‘‘openings 
of gates.” 
Mod authors are of opinion, that Deucalion’s deluge 
was occafioned by the river Peneus. To this purpoie, 
Herodotus obferves, “ It is faid that Theflaly once was 
nothing but a lake,being environed on all fides with hills. 
The country which lies between thofe hills is what they 
call Theflaly, which is watered with plenty of rivers, the 
chief 
