Emily Dickinson Lexicon

PINE-AP-PLE, n.

The Ananas sativus of Schultes, and the Bromelia Ananas of Linnæus, so called from its resemblance to the cone of the pine-tree. – Miller. Locke.

PINE-BAR'REN, n.

Tract of barren land, producing pines. – U. States.

PINE-CLAD, or PINE-CROWN-ED, a.

Clad or crowned with pine trees. – Hemans.

PINE-FUL, a.

Full of woe. [Not used.] – Hall.

PINE'RY, n.

A place where pine-apples are raised. – Todd.

PIN'-FEATH-ER, or PIN'-FETH-ER, n.

A small or short feather.

PIN'-FEATH-ER-ED, or PIN'-FETH-ER-ED, a.

Having the feathers only beginning to shoot; not fully fledged. – Dryden.

PIN'FOLD, n. [pin or pen and fold; Dan. pindan, Eng. to pound.]

A place in which beasts are confined. We now call it a pound.

PIN'GLE, n.

A small close. [Not used.] – Ainsworth.

PING'STER, or PINX'TER, n. [Dutch.]

Whitsuntide.

PIN'GUID, a. [L. pinguis; Gr. παχυς, compact, L. pactus, Eng. pack.]

Fat; unctuous. [Not used.] – Mortimer.

PIN-GUID'IN-OUS, a.

Containing fat.

PIN'GUI-TUDE, n.

Fatness; a growing fat.

PIN'HOLE, n.

A small hole made by the puncture or perforation of a pin; a very small aperture. – Wiseman.

PIN-ING, ppr.

Languishing; wasting away.

PIN-ION, n. [pin'yon; Fr. pignon, the cope of the ridge of a house; Norm. id. a pen; Sp. piñon, pinion; from Celtic pen, top, summit.]

1. The joint of a fowl's wing, remotest from the body.
2. A feather; a quill. – Shak.
3. A wing. Hope humbly then, on trembling pinions soar. – Pope.
4. The tooth of a smaller wheel, answering to that of a larger.
5. Fetters or bands for the arms. – Ainsworth.

PIN-ION, v.t. [pin'yon.]

1. To bind or confine the wings. – Bacon.
2. To confine by binding the wings.
3. To cut off the first joint of the wing.
4. To bind or confine the arm or arms to the body. – Dryden.
5. To confine; to shackle; to chain; as, to be pinioned by formal rules of state. – Norris.
6. To bind; to fasten to. – Pope.

PIN'ION-ED, pp.

1. Confined by the wings; shackled.
2. adj. Furnished with wings. – Dryden.

PIN'ION-ING, ppr.

Shackling; confining the wings or arms.

PIN'ION-IST, n.

A winged animal; a fowl. [Not used.] – Brown.

PIN-I-RO'LO, n.

A bird resembling the sandpiper, but larger; found in Italy. – Dict. Nat. Hist.

PIN'ITE, n. [from Pini, a mine in Saxony.]

A mineral holding a middle place between steatite and mica; the micarel of Kirwan. It is found in prismatic crystals of a greenish white color, brown or deep red. It occurs also massive. – Dict. Nat. Hist.

PINK, n. [In Welsh, pinc signifies smart, fine, gay, and a finch, and pinciaw, to sprig. This is by Owen formed from pin, a pen or pin. But in Portuguese, picar; to sting, to prick, to peck, to nip, to pinch, to dig, to spur, and picado, pricked, pinked, as cloth, are from the root of peck, pick, pico, beak, pike, Sp. picar It. piccare. The latter would, with n casual, give pink, a little eye or perforation, and the sense of pink, in pink-sterned. The Welsh gives pink, a flower.]

1. An eye, or a small eye; but now disused except in composition, as in pink-eyed, pink-eye. – Shak.
2. A plant and flower of the genus Dianthus, common in our gardens.
3. A color used by painters; from the color of the flower. – Dryden.
4. Any thing supremely excellent.
5. A ship with a very narrow stern. [Fr. pinque, D. pink, that is, piked, n being casual; hence pink-sterned.]
6. A fish, the minnow. – Ainsworth.

PINK, v.i. [D. pinken.]

To wink. [Not used.] – L'Estrange.

PINK, v.t.

1. To work in eyelet-holes; to pierce with small holes. – Carew. Prior.
2. To stab; to pierce. – Addison.