A West Indian name for the prickly pear (Opuntia); -- called also pimploes.

The burnet saxifrage. See under Saxifrage.

Little; petty; pitiful.

Any small acuminated elevation of the cuticle, whether going on to suppuration or not.

Having pimples.

Pimpled.

The office, occupation, or persom of a pimp.

To fasten with, or as with, a pin; to join; as, to pin a garment; to pin boards together.

Having the stigma visible at the throad of a gamopetalous corolla, while the stamens are concealed in the tube; -- said of dimorphous flowers. The opposite of thrum-eyed.

Having a firing pin to explode the cartridge; as, a pin-fire rifle.

Having a tapered tail, with the middle feathers longest; -- said of birds.

A plane parallel to two of the crystalline axes.

A colorless oily liquid related to the ketones, and obtained by the decomposition of pinacone; hence, by extension, any one of the series of which pinacolin proper is the type.

A white crystalline substance related to the glycols, and made from acetone; hence, by extension, any one of a series of substances of which pinacone proper is the type.

A picture gallery.

An apron for a child to protect the front part of dress; a tier.

Pinacotheca.

A species of pine (Pinus Pinaster) growing in Southern Europe.

A tablet; a register; hence, a list or scheme inscribed on a tablet.

Eyeglasses kept on the nose by a spring.

See Pinchers.

A close compression, as with the ends of the fingers, or with an instrument; a nip.

Made of pinchbeck; sham; cheap; spurious; unreal.

A clamp on a flexible pipe to regulate the flow of a fluid through the pipe.

The European blue titmouse.

One who, or that which, pinches.

An instrument having two handles and two grasping jaws working on a pivot; -- used for griping things to be held fast, drawing nails, etc.

A closefisted person; a miser.

Compressing; nipping; griping; niggardly; as, pinching cold; a pinching parsimony.

In a pinching way.

A miserly person.

A commercial preparation of garancin, yielding fine violet tints.

An African wren warbler. (Drymoica textrix).

A small cushion, in which pins may be stuck for use.

The peanut (Arachis hypog/a); -- so called in the West Indies.

Of or pertaining to Pindar, the Greek lyric poet; after the style and manner of Pindar; as, Pindaric odes. A Pindaric ode.

Pindaric.

Imitation of Pindar.

One who imitates Pindar.

One who impounds; a poundkeeper.

Any tree of the coniferous genus Pinus. See Pinus.

Clad or crowned with pine trees; as, pine-clad hills.

Of or pertaining to a pine cone; resembling a pine cone.

A tropical plant (Ananassa sativa); also, its fruit; -- so called from the resemblance of the latter, in shape and external appearance, to the cone of the pine tree. Its origin is unknown, though conjectured to be American.

See Pinaster.

A reddish herb (Pterospora andromedea) of the United States, found parasitic on the roots of pine trees.

A small American bird (Spinus spinus syn. Chrysomitris spinus); -- called also pine siskin, and American siskin. The pine grosbeak.

Tabular parenchyma, a form of cellular tissue in which the cells are broad and flat, as in some kinds of epidermis.

A pine forest; a grove of pines.

A reddish fleshy herb of the genus Monotropa (Monotropa hypopitys), formerly thought to be parasitic on the roots of pine trees, but more probably saprophytic.

A plantation of pine trees; esp., a collection of living pine trees made for ornamental or scientific purposes.

A low, bushy, nearly leafless herb (Hypericum Sarothra), common in sandy soil in the Eastern United States.

A term used in designating an East Indian tree (the Vateria Indica or piney tree, of the order Dipterocarpe/, which grows in Malabar, etc.) or its products.

A feather not fully developed; esp., a rudimentary feather just emerging through the skin.

Having part, or all, of the feathers imperfectly developed.

The sailor's choice (Diplodus rhomboides syn. Lagodon rhomboides). The salt-water bream (Diplodus Holbrooki).

A place in which stray cattle or domestic animals are confined; a pound; a penfold.

To make the sound called ping.

An indoor modification of lawn tennis played with small bats, or battledores, and a very light, hollow, celluloid ball, on a large table divided across the middle by a net. Also called table tennis.

To play ping-pong.

A small piece of inclosed ground.

See Pinkster.

A making of, or turning into, fat.

See Butterwort.

Fat; unctuous; greasy.

Containing fat; fatty.

Fatness; a growing fat; obesity.

A place where a pin is fixed.

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.

Languishing; drooping; wasting away, as with longing.

In a pining manner; droopingly.

To bind or confine the wings of; to confine by binding the wings.

Having wings or pinions.

Any winged creature.

Any fossil wood which exhibits traces of having belonged to the Pine family.

Resembling the garden pink in color; of the color called pink (see 6th Pink, 2); as, a pink dress; pink ribbons.

Having small eyes.

Having a very narrow stern; -- said of a vessel.

Pierced with small holes; worked in eyelets; scalloped on the edge.

The act of piercing or stabbing.

Somewhat pink.

Quality or state of being pink.

The root of Spigelia Marilandica, used as a powerful vermifuge; also, that of Spigelia Anthelmia. See definition 2 (below).

Whitsuntide.

See 1st Pink.

A leaflet of a pinnate leaf. See Illust. of Bipinnate leaf, under Bipinnate. One of the primary divisions of a decompound leaf.

A small vessel propelled by sails or oars, formerly employed as a tender, or for coast defence; -- called originally, spynace or spyne. A man-of-war's boat.

To build or furnish with a pinnacle or pinnacles.

Poundage of cattle. See Pound.

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.

In a pinnate manner.

Divided in a pinnate manner, with the divisions not reaching to the midrib.

Having lobes arranged in a pinnate manner.

Any bird which has the toes bordered by membranes.

One who pins or impounds cattle. See Pin, v. t.

A pinnacle.

Shaped like a fin or feather.

Same as Pinnipedia.

An animal of the seal tribe, moving by short feet that serve as paddles.

One of the Pinnipedia; a seal. One of the Pinnipedes.

Same as Steganopodes.

A suborder of aquatic carnivorous mammals including the seals and walruses; -- opposed to Fissipedia.

The hedge sparrow. The tomtit.

A crab of the genus pinnotheres. See Oyster crab, under Oyster.

Same as Pinnule.

Having each pinna subdivided; -- said of a leaf, or of its pinn/.

Having pinnules.

One of the small divisions of a decompound frond or leaf. See Illust. of Bipinnate leaf, under Bipinnate.

An instrument of torture, consisting of a board with holes into which the fingers were pressed, and fastened with pegs.

A game at cards, played with forty-eight cards, being all the cards above the eight spots in two packs.

A game at cards, played with forty-eight cards, being all the cards above the eight spots in two packs.

An aromatic powder used in Italy in the manufacture of chocolate.

The common English periwinkle.

The laughing gull.

Any bird of the genus Numida. Several species are found in Africa. The common pintado, or Guinea fowl, the helmeted, and the crested pintados, are the best known. See Guinea fowl, under Guinea.

A northern duck (Dafila acuta), native of both continents. The adult male has a long, tapering tail. Called also gray duck, piketail, piket-tail, spike-tail, split-tail, springtail, sea pheasant, and gray widgeon.

A little pin.

Any pied animal; esp., a pied or /painted/ horse.

A mountain tribe of Mexican Indians living near Acapulco. They are remarkable for having the dark skin of the face irregularly spotted with white. Called also speckled Indians.

One of the sights of an astrolabe.