Definition of Penlite

1. Noun. (dated form of penlight) ¹

2. Noun. (dated) A battery or cell of size AA, size AAA, or size N.Howard G. McEntree, “Clever New Gadgets Run on Flashlight Batteries”, in ''Popular Science'', Volume 174, Number 3 (March 1959), [ page 132]. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Penlite

1. penlight [n -S] - See also: penlight

Lexicographical Neighbors of Penlite

penitentiaries
penitentiary
penitentiaryship
penitently
penitents
penk
penknife
penknives
penks
penkvilksite
penless
penlight
penlights
penlike
penlite (current term)
penlites
penmaker
penmakers
penmaking
penman
penmanship
penmanships
penmen
penn'orth
penn'orths
penna
pennaceous
pennae
pennage

Literary usage of Penlite

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1. A Text-book of Mineralogy: With an Extended Treatise on Crystallography and by Edward Salisbury Dana, James Dwight Dana (1877)
"... constitutes concretionary deposits about the Iceland and Yellowstone (penlite) geysers, presenting white or grayish, porous, stalactitic, filamentous, ..."

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