Webster's Dictionary 1913

4510

Pingle

Pin″gle (?), n. [Perhaps fr. pin to impound.] A small piece of inclosed ground.

4511

Pingster

Ping″ster (?), n. See Pinkster.

4512

Pinguefaction

Pin′gue‐fac″tion (?), n. [L. pinguefacere, pinguefactum, to fatten; pinguis fat + facere to make.] (Med.) A making of, or turning into, fat.

4513

Pinguicula

Pin‐guic″u‐la (?), n. [NL., fr. L. pinguiculus somewhat fat, fattish.] (Bot.) See Butterwort.

4514

Pinguid

Pin″guid (?), a. [L. pinguis fat.] Fat; unctuous; greasy. “Some clays are more pinguid.” Mortimer.

4515

Pinguidinous

Pin‐guid″i‐nous (?), a. [L. pinguedo fatness, fr. pinguis fat.] Containing fat; fatty.

4516

Pinguitude

Pin″gui‐tude (?), n. [L. pinguitudo, from pinguis fat.] Fatness; a growing fat; obesity.

4517

Pinhold

Pin″hold′ (?), n. A place where a pin is fixed.

4518

Pinic

Pi″nic (�), a. [L. pinus pine.] (Chem.) Of or pertaining to the pine; obtained from the pine; formerly, designating an acid which is the chief constituent of common resin, — now...

4519

Pining

Pin″ing (?), a. 1. Languishing; drooping; wasting away, as with longing.2. Wasting; consuming. “The pining malady of France.” Shak.

4520

Piningly

Pin″ing‐ly, adv. In a pining manner; droopingly. Poe.

4521

Pinion

Pin″ion (?), n.(Zoöl.) A moth of the genus Lithophane, as L. antennata, whose larva bores large holes in young peaches and apples.

4522

Pinion (2)

Pin″ion, n. [OF. pignon a pen, F., gable, pinion (in sense 5); cf. Sp. piñon pinion; fr. L. pinna pinnacle, feather, wing. See Pin a peg, and cf. Pen a feather, Pennat, Pennon.]...

4523

Pinion (3)

Pin″ion (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p.Pinioned (?); p. pr. & vb. n.Pinioning.] 1. To bind or confine the wings of; to confine by binding the wings. Bacon.2. To disable by cutting off ...

4524

Pinioned

Pin″ioned (?), a. Having wings or pinions.

4525

Pinionist

Pin″ion‐ist, n.(Zoöl.) Any winged creature.

4526

Pinite

Pin″ite (?), n. [So called from Pini, a mine in Saxony.] (Min.) A compact granular cryptocrystalline mineral of a dull grayish or greenish white color. It is a hydrous alkaline ...

4527

Pinite (2)

Pi″nite (?), n. [L. pinus the pine tree.] 1. (Paleon.) Any fossil wood which exhibits traces of having belonged to the Pine family.2. (Chem.) A sweet white crystalline substance...

4528

Pink

Pink (?), n. [D. pink.] (Naut.) A vessel with a very narrow stern; — called also pinky. Sir W. Scott.Pink stern(Naut.), a narrow stern.

4529

Pink (2)

Pink, v. i. [D. pinken, pinkoogen, to blink, twinkle with the eyes.] To wink; to blink. L'Estrange.

4530

Pink (3)

Pink, a. Half-shut; winking. Shak.

4531

Pink (4)

Pink, v. t. [imp. & p. p.Pinked (?); p. pr. & vb. n.Pinking.] [OE. pinken to prick, probably a nasalized form of pick.] 1. To pierce with small holes; to cut the edge of, as clo...

4532

Pink (5)

Pink, n. A stab. Grose.

4533

Pink (6)

Pink, n. [Perh. akin to pick; as if the edges of the petals were picked out. Cf. Pink, v. t.] 1. (Bot.) A name given to several plants of the caryophyllaceous genus Dianthus, an...

4534

Pink (7)

Pink, a. Resembling the garden pink in color; of the color called pink (see 6th Pink, 2); as, a pink dress; pink ribbons.Pink eye(Med.), a popular name for an epidemic variety o...

4535

Pink stern

Pink″ stern′ (?). [See 1st Pink.] (Naut.) See Chebacco, and 1st Pink.

4536

Pink-eyed

Pink″–eyed′ (?), a. [Pink half-shut + eye.] Having small eyes. Holland.