Pĕn'ū-ry, n.

n. [Fr. pénurie, Sp., It., & Lat. penuria, allied to Gr. πεῖνα, hunger, πενία, poverty, need, πένης, one who works for his daily bread, a poor man, from πένεσθαι, to work for one's daily bread, to be poor.] Absence of means or resources; want; privation; indigence; poverty.

All innocent, they were exposed to hardship and penury. Sprat.

It arises in neither from penury of thought. Landor.