It is over for the time,'' answered Rebecca; ``our friends strengthen themselves within the outwork which they have mastered, and it affords them so good a shelter from the foemen's shot, that the garrison only bestow a few bolts on it from interval to interval, as if rather to disquiet than effectually to injure them.
PnP. 1. Short for Plug-and-Play. PnP is an ability of a computer to detect and configure hardware automatically, without requiring the user to physically configure the hardware with jumpers or dip switches. Plug-and-Play was introduced on IBM compatible computers with the release of Microsoft Windows 95.
People's National Party. For other uses, see Peoples National Party (disambiguation). The People's National Party (PNP) is a social-democratic political party in Jamaica founded in 1938 under the leadership of Norman Manley. It holds 31 of 63 seats in the House of Representatives, as well as a majority of local government bodies with 151 of the 228 divisions.