v. t. To tame. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖adv. [ It. ] (Mus.) Slowly; in slow time. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ NL. See Pentamerous. ] (Zool.) An extensive division of Coleoptera, including those that normally have five-jointed tarsi. It embraces about half of all the known species of the Coleoptera. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) One of the Pentamera. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Penta- + Gr. &unr_; part. ] 1. (Biol.) Divided into, or consisting of, five parts; also, arranged in sets, with five parts in each set, as a flower with five sepals, five petals, five, or twice five, stamens, and five pistils. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zool.) Belonging to the Pentamera. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL. See Pentamerous. ] (Paleon.) A genus of extinct Paleozoic brachiopods, often very abundant in the Upper Silurian. [ 1913 Webster ]

Pentamerus limestone (Geol.), a Silurian limestone composed largely of the shells of Pentamerus. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L., fr. Gr. &unr_;; &unr_; (see Penta-) + &unr_; measure. ] (Gr. & L.Pros.) A verse of five feet. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The dactylic pentameter consists of two parts separated by a diæresis. Each part consists of two dactyls and a long syllable. The spondee may take the place of the dactyl in the first part, but not in the second. The elegiac distich consists of the hexameter followed by the pentameter. Harkness. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having five metrical feet. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Penta- + methylene. ] (Chem.) A hypothetical hydrocarbon, C5H10, metameric with the amylenes, and the nucleus of a large number of derivatives; -- so named because regarded as composed of five methylene residues. Cf. Trimethylene, and Tetramethylene. [ 1913 Webster ]