Ping (v. i.) To make the sound called ping.
Pingle (n.) A small piece of inclosed ground.
Pingster (n.) See Pinkster.
Pinguicula (n.) See Butterwort.
Pinguid (a.) Fat; unctuous; greasy.
Pinguidinous (a.) Containing fat; fatty.
Pinguitude (n.) Fatness; a growing fat; obesity.
Pinhold (n.) A place where a pin is fixed.
Pinic (a.) Of or pertaining to the pine; obtained from the pine; formerly, designating an acid which is the chief constituent of common resin, -- now called abietic, or sylvic, acid.
Pining (a.) Languishing; drooping; wasting away, as with longing.
Pining (a.) Wasting; consuming.
Piningly (adv.) In a pining manner; droopingly.
Pinion (n.) A moth of the genus Lithophane, as L. antennata, whose larva bores large holes in young peaches and apples.
Pinion (n.) A feather; a quill.
Pinion (n.) A wing, literal or figurative.
Pinion (n.) The joint of bird's wing most remote from the body.
Pinion (n.) A fetter for the arm.
Pinion (n.) A cogwheel with a small number of teeth, or leaves, adapted to engage with a larger wheel, or rack (see Rack); esp., such a wheel having its leaves formed of the substance of the arbor or spindle which is its axis.
Pinioned (imp. & p. p.) of Pinion
Pinioning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Pinion
Pinion (v. t.) To bind or confine the wings of; to confine by binding the wings.
Pinion (v. t.) To disable by cutting off the pinion joint.
Pinion (v. t.) To disable or restrain, as a person, by binding the arms, esp. by binding the arms to the body.
Pinion (v. t.) Hence, generally, to confine; to bind; to tie up.
Pinioned (a.) Having wings or pinions.
Pinionist (n.) Any winged creature.
Pinite (n.) A compact granular cryptocrystalline mineral of a dull grayish or greenish white color. It is a hydrous alkaline silicate, and is derived from the alteration of other minerals, as iolite.
Pinite (n.) Any fossil wood which exhibits traces of having belonged to the Pine family.
Pinite (n.) A sweet white crystalline substance extracted from the gum of a species of pine (Pinus Lambertina). It is isomeric with, and resembles, quercite.
Pink (n.) A vessel with a very narrow stern; -- called also pinky.
Pink (v. i.) To wink; to blink.
Pink (a.) Half-shut; winking.
Pinked (imp. & p. p.) of Pink
Pinking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Pink
Pink (v. t.) To pierce with small holes; to cut the edge of, as cloth or paper, in small scallops or angles.
Pink (v. t.) To stab; to pierce as with a sword.
Pink (v. t.) To choose; to cull; to pick out.
Pink (n.) A stab.
Pink (v. t.) A name given to several plants of the caryophyllaceous genus Dianthus, and to their flowers, which are sometimes very fragrant and often double in cultivated varieties. The species are mostly perennial herbs, with opposite linear leaves, and handsome five-petaled flowers with a tubular calyx.
Pink (v. t.) A color resulting from the combination of a pure vivid red with more or less white; -- so called from the common color of the flower.
Pink (v. t.) Anything supremely excellent; the embodiment or perfection of something.
Pink (v. t.) The European minnow; -- so called from the color of its abdomen in summer.
Pink (a.) Resembling the garden pink in color; of the color called pink (see 6th Pink, 2); as, a pink dress; pink ribbons.
Pinked (a.) Pierced with small holes; worked in eyelets; scalloped on the edge.
Pink-eyed (a.) Having small eyes.
Pinking (n.) The act of piercing or stabbing.
Pinking (n.) The act or method of decorating fabrics or garments with a pinking iron; also, the style of decoration; scallops made with a pinking iron.
Pinkish (a.) Somewhat pink.
Pinkness (n.) Quality or state of being pink.
Pinkroot (n.) The root of Spigelia Marilandica, used as a powerful vermifuge; also, that of S. Anthelmia. See definition 2 (below).
Pinkroot (n.) A perennial North American herb (Spigelia Marilandica), sometimes cultivated for its showy red blossoms. Called also Carolina pink, Maryland pinkroot, and worm grass.
Pinkroot (n.) An annual South American and West Indian plant (Spigelia Anthelmia).
Pinkster (n.) Whitsuntide.
Pink stern () See Chebacco, and 1st Pink.
Pink-sterned (a.) Having a very narrow stern; -- said of a vessel.
Pinky (n.) See 1st Pink.
Pinnae (pl. ) of Pinna
Pinnas (pl. ) of Pinna
Pinna (n.) A leaflet of a pinnate leaf. See Illust. of Bipinnate leaf, under Bipinnate.
Pinna (n.) One of the primary divisions of a decompound leaf.
Pinna (n.) One of the divisions of a pinnate part or organ.
Pinna (n.) Any species of Pinna, a genus of large bivalve mollusks found in all warm seas. The byssus consists of a large number of long, silky fibers, which have been used in manufacturing woven fabrics, as a curiosity.
Pinna (n.) The auricle of the ear. See Ear.
Pinnace (n.) A small vessel propelled by sails or oars, formerly employed as a tender, or for coast defence; -- called originally, spynace or spyne.
Pinnace (n.) A man-of-war's boat.
Pinnace (n.) A procuress; a pimp.
Pinnacle (n.) An architectural member, upright, and generally ending in a small spire, -- used to finish a buttress, to constitute a part in a proportion, as where pinnacles flank a gable or spire, and the like. Pinnacles may be considered primarily as added weight, where it is necessary to resist the thrust of an arch, etc.
Pinnacle (n.) Anything resembling a pinnacle; a lofty peak; a pointed summit.
Pinnacled (imp. & p. p.) of Pinnacle
Pinnacling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Pinnacle
Pinnacle (v. t.) To build or furnish with a pinnacle or pinnacles.
Pinnage (n.) Poundage of cattle. See Pound.
Pinnate (a.) Alt. of Pinnated
Pinnated (a.) Consisting of several leaflets, or separate portions, arranged on each side of a common petiole, as the leaves of a rosebush, a hickory, or an ash. See Abruptly pinnate, and Illust., under Abruptly.
Pinnated (a.) Having a winglike tuft of long feathers on each side of the neck.
Pinnately (adv.) In a pinnate manner.
Pinnatifid (a.) Divided in a pinnate manner, with the divisions not reaching to the midrib.
Pinnatilobate (a.) Having lobes arranged in a pinnate manner.
Pinnatiped (a.) Having the toes bordered by membranes; fin-footed, as certain birds.
Pinnatiped (n.) Any bird which has the toes bordered by membranes.
Pinner (n.) One who, or that which, pins or fastens, as with pins.
Pinner (n.) A headdress like a cap, with long lappets.
Pinner (n.) An apron with a bib; a pinafore.
Pinner (n.) A cloth band for a gown.
Pinner (n.) A pin maker.
Pinner (n.) One who pins or impounds cattle. See Pin, v. t.
Pinnet (n.) A pinnacle.
Pinniform (a.) Shaped like a fin or feather.
Pinnigrada (n. pl.) Same as Pinnipedia.
Pinnigrade (n.) An animal of the seal tribe, moving by short feet that serve as paddles.
Pinniped (n.) One of the Pinnipedia; a seal.
Pinniped (n.) One of the Pinnipedes.
Pinnipedes (n. pl.) Same as Steganopodes.
Pinnipedia (n. pl.) A suborder of aquatic carnivorous mammals including the seals and walruses; -- opposed to Fissipedia.
Pinnock (n.) The hedge sparrow.
Pinnock (n.) The tomtit.
Pinnothere (n.) A crab of the genus pinnotheres. See Oyster crab, under Oyster.
Pinnulae (pl. ) of Pinnula
Pinnula (n.) Same as Pinnule.
Pinnulate (a.) Having each pinna subdivided; -- said of a leaf, or of its pinnae.