PIMPLED
PIM'PLED, adjective Having red pustules on the skin; full of pimples.
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American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.
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PIMPLIKE
PIMP'LIKE, adjective Like a pimp; vile; infamous; mean.
PIN
PIN, noun [Latin penna, pinna.]1. A small pointed instrument made of brass wire and headed; used chiefly by females for fastening their clothes.2. A piece of wood or metal sharp...
PIN-MAKER
PIN'-MAKER, n. One whose occupation is to make pins.
PINASTER
PINAS'TER, noun [Latin See Pine.] The wild pine.
PINCASE
PIN'CASE, noun A case for holding pins.
PINCERS
PINCERS, an erroneous orthography of pinchers, which see.
PINCH
PINCH, verb transitive1. To press hard or squeeze between the ends of the fingers, the teeth, claws, or with an instrument, etc.2. To squeeze or compress between any two hard bo...
PINCHBECK
PINCH'BECK, noun [said to be from the name of the inventor.]An alloy of copper; a mixture of copper and zink, consisting of three or four parts of copper with one of zink.
PINCHER
PINCH'ER, noun He or that which pinches.
PINCHERS
PINCH'ERS, nounplural [from pinch, not from the French pincette.]An instrument for drawing nails from boards and the like, or for griping things to be held fast.
PINCHFIST
PINCH'FISTPINCH'PENNY, noun A miser; a niggard.
PINCUSHION
PIN'CUSHION, noun A small case stuffed with some soft material, in which females stick pins for safety and preservation.
PINDARIC
PINDAR'IC, adjective After the style and manner of Pindar.PINDAR'IC, noun An ode in imitation of the odes of Pindar the Grecian, and prince of the lyric poets; an irregular ode.
PINDUST
PIN'DUST, noun Small particles of metal made by pointing pins.
PINE
PINE, noun [Latin pinus.] A tree of the genus Pinus, of many species, some of which furnish timber of the most valuable kind. The species which usually bear this name in the Uni...
PINE-APPLE
PINE-APPLE, noun The ananas, a species of Bromelia, so called from its resemblance to the cone of the pine tree.
PINEAL
PIN'EAL, adjective [Latin pinus.] The pineal gland is a part of the brain, about the bigness of a pea, situated in the third ventricle; so called from its shape. It was consider...
PINEFUL
PI'NEFUL, adjective Full of woe. [Not used.]
PINERY
PI'NERY, noun A place where pine-apples are raised.PIN'-FETHER, noun A small or short fether.PIN'-FETHERED, adjective Having the fethers only beginning to shoot; not fully fledged.
PINFOLD
PIN'FOLD, noun [pin or pen and fold; Eng. to pound.]A place in which beasts are confined. We now call it a pound.
PINGLE
PIN'GLE, noun A small close. [Not used.]
PINGUID
PIN'GUID, adjective [Latin pinguis; Gr. compact; Latin pactus; Eng.pack.]Fat; unctuous. [Not used.]
PINHOLE
PIN'HOLE, noun A small hole made by the puncture or perforation of a pin; a very small aperture.
PINING
PI'NING, participle present tense Languishing; wasting away.
PINION
PINION, noun pin'yon.1. The joint of a fowl's wing, remotest from the body.2. A fether; a quill.3. A wing.Hope humbly then, on trembling pinions soar.4. The tooth of a smaller w...
PINIONED
PIN'IONED, participle passive Confined by the wings; shackled.1.adjective Furnished with wings.