Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Dictionary: PINE-AP-PLE – PINK
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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.]
- The joint of a fowl's wing, remotest from the body.
- A feather; a quill. – Shak.
- A wing. Hope humbly then, on trembling pinions soar. – Pope.
- The tooth of a smaller wheel, answering to that of a larger.
- Fetters or bands for the arms. – Ainsworth.
PIN-ION, v.t. [pin'yon.]
- To bind or confine the wings. – Bacon.
- To confine by binding the wings.
- To cut off the first joint of the wing.
- To bind or confine the arm or arms to the body. – Dryden.
- To confine; to shackle; to chain; as, to be pinioned by formal rules of state. – Norris.
- To bind; to fasten to. – Pope.
PIN'ION-ED, pp.
- Confined by the wings; shackled.
- 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.]
- An eye, or a small eye; but now disused except in composition, as in pink-eyed, pink-eye. – Shak.
- A plant and flower of the genus Dianthus, common in our gardens.
- A color used by painters; from the color of the flower. – Dryden.
- Any thing supremely excellent.
- A ship with a very narrow stern. [Fr. pinque, D. pink, that is, piked, n being casual; hence pink-sterned.]
- A fish, the minnow. – Ainsworth.
PINK, v.i. [D. pinken.]
To wink. [Not used.] – L'Estrange.
PINK, v.t.
- To work in eyelet-holes; to pierce with small holes. – Carew. Prior.
- To stab; to pierce. – Addison.