American Heritage Dictionary
(2)
Century Dictionary
(3)
GNU Webster's 1913
(1)
WordNet
(1)
Elsewhere on the web
If they have no jobs and face penury, they will be ready if not eager to transfer their primary allegiance from the state to something else.— Defense and the National Interest
Look at the vital consequence they attached to the interest of education; at the taxes that in their penury, and while for the most part they still lived in huts, they imposed on themselves to found and to sustain the institution of the school!— Modern Eloquence: Vol III, After-Dinner Speeches P-Z
He came each day to her abode of penury, and his presence transformed it to a temple redolent with sweets, radiant with heaven's own light; he partook of her delirium.— The Last Man

American Heritage Dictionary (1)
Century Dictionary (1)
Bubble size: how much this word was used in a year
Bubble height: used more or less than expected, vs. all uses evenly distributed
You can expect to see this word a few times a year.
Recently looked upWrit · HONOLULU · milestone · doll · gluteus |
Recent Favoritespygopagus · sanglant · Astacus · sweetbread · qualms |
Recent Pronunciationseu oi oìa u ou e u oìa · the octopi are dry · Kansas City · spell it rite · put it in your pocket |