| Pin |
v. t. |
To peen. |
| Pin |
v. t. |
To inclose; to confine; to pen; to pound. |
| Pin |
n. |
A piece of wood, metal, etc., generally cylindrical, used for fastening separate articles together, or as a support by which one article may be suspended from another; a peg; a bolt. |
| Pin |
n. |
Especially, a small, pointed and headed piece of brass or other wire (commonly tinned), largely used for fastening clothes, attaching papers, etc. |
| Pin |
n. |
Hence, a thing of small value; a trifle. |
| Pin |
n. |
That which resembles a pin in its form or use |
| Pin |
n. |
A peg in musical instruments, for increasing or relaxing the tension of the strings. |
| Pin |
n. |
A linchpin. |
| Pin |
n. |
A rolling-pin. |
| Pin |
n. |
A clothespin. |
| Pin |
n. |
A short shaft, sometimes forming a bolt, a part of which serves as a journal. |
| Pin |
n. |
The tenon of a dovetail joint. |
| Pin |
n. |
One of a row of pegs in the side of an ancient drinking cup to mark how much each man should drink. |
| Pin |
n. |
The bull's eye, or center, of a target; hence, the center. |
| Pin |
n. |
Mood; humor. |
| Pin |
n. |
Caligo. See Caligo. |
| Pin |
n. |
An ornament, as a brooch or badge, fastened to the clothing by a pin; as, a Masonic pin. |
| Pin |
n. |
The leg; as, to knock one off his pins. |
| Pin |
n. |
To fasten with, or as with, a pin; to join; as, to pin a garment; to pin boards together. |
| Pin-eyed |
a. |
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. |
| Pin-fire |
a. |
Having a firing pin to explode the cartridge; as, a pin-fire rifle. |
| Pin-tailed |
a. |
Having a tapered tail, with the middle feathers longest;
said of birds. |
| Pina |
|
A cone of silver amalgam prepared for retorting; also, the residuary cone of spongy silver left after the retorting. |
| Pinacate bug |
|
Any of several clumsy, wingless beetles of the genus Eleodes, found in the Pacific States. |
| Pinaces |
pl. |
of Pinax |
| Pinacoid |
n. |
A plane parallel to two of the crystalline axes. |
| Pinacolin |
n. |
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. |
| Pinacone |
n. |
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. |
| Pinacotheca |
n. |
A picture gallery. |
| Pinafore |
n. |
An apron for a child to protect the front part of dress; a tier. |
| Pinakothek |
n. |
Pinacotheca. |
| Pinaster |
n. |
A species of pine (Pinus Pinaster) growing in Southern Europe. |
| Pinax |
n. |
A tablet; a register; hence, a list or scheme inscribed on a tablet. |
| Pince-nez |
n. |
Eyeglasses kept on the nose by a spring. |
| Pincers |
n. pl. |
See Pinchers. |
| Pinch |
v. t. |
To seize by way of theft; to steal; also, to catch; to arrest. |
| Pinch |
v. t. |
To press hard or squeeze between the ends of the fingers, between teeth or claws, or between the jaws of an instrument; to squeeze or compress, as between any two hard bodies. |
| Pinch |
v. t. |
o seize; to grip; to bite;
said of animals. |
| Pinch |
v. t. |
To plait. |
| Pinch |
v. t. |
Figuratively: To cramp; to straiten; to oppress; to starve; to distress; as, to be pinched for money. |
| Pinch |
v. t. |
To move, as a railroad car, by prying the wheels with a pinch. See Pinch, n., 4. |
| Pinch |
v. i. |
To act with pressing force; to compress; to squeeze; as, the shoe pinches. |
| Pinch |
v. i. |
To take hold; to grip, as a dog does. |
| Pinch |
v. i. |
To spare; to be niggardly; to be covetous. |
| Pinch |
n. |
A close compression, as with the ends of the fingers, or with an instrument; a nip. |
| Pinch |
n. |
As much as may be taken between the finger and thumb; any very small quantity; as, a pinch of snuff. |
| Pinch |
n. |
Pian; pang. |
| Pinch |
n. |
A lever having a projection at one end, acting as a fulcrum,
used chiefly to roll heavy wheels, etc. Called also pinch bar. |
| Pinchbeck |
n. |
An alloy of copper and zinc, resembling gold; a yellow metal, composed of about three ounces of zinc to a pound of copper. It is much used as an imitation of gold in the manufacture of cheap jewelry. |
| Pinchbeck |
a. |
Made of pinchbeck; sham; cheap; spurious; unreal. |
| Pinchcock |
n. |
A clamp on a flexible pipe to regulate the flow of a fluid through the pipe. |
| Pinched |
imp. & p. p. |
of Pinch |
| Pinchem |
n. |
The European blue titmouse. |
| Pincher |
n. |
One who, or that which, pinches. |
| Pinchers |
n. pl. |
An instrument having two handles and two grasping jaws working on a pivot;
used for griping things to be held fast, drawing nails, etc. |
| Pinchfist |
n. |
A closefisted person; a miser. |
| Pinching |
p. pr. & vb. n. |
of Pinch |
| Pinching |
a. |
Compressing; nipping; griping; niggardly; as, pinching cold; a pinching parsimony. |
| Pinchingly |
adv. |
In a pinching way. |
| Pinchpenny |
n. |
A miserly person. |
| Pincoffin |
n. |
A commercial preparation of garancin, yielding fine violet tints. |
| Pincpinc |
n. |
An African wren warbler. (Drymoica textrix). |
| Pincushion |
n. |
A small cushion, in which pins may be stuck for use. |
| Pindal |
n. |
Alt. of Pindar |
| Pindar |
n. |
The peanut (Arachis hypogaea);
so called in the West Indies. |
| Pindaric |
a. |
Of or pertaining to Pindar, the Greek lyric poet; after the style and manner of Pindar; as, Pindaric odes. |
| Pindaric |
n. |
A Pindaric ode. |
| Pindarical |
a. |
Pindaric. |
| Pindarism |
n. |
Imitation of Pindar. |
| Pindarist |
n. |
One who imitates Pindar. |
| Pinder |
n. |
One who impounds; a poundkeeper. |
| Pine |
n. |
Woe; torment; pain. |
| Pine |
v. |
To inflict pain upon; to torment; to torture; to afflict. |
| Pine |
v. |
To grieve or mourn for. |
| Pine |
v. i. |
To suffer; to be afflicted. |
| Pine |
v. i. |
To languish; to lose flesh or wear away, under any distress or anexiety of mind; to droop;
often used with away. |
| Pine |
v. i. |
To languish with desire; to waste away with longing for something;
usually followed by for. |
| Pine |
n. |
Any tree of the coniferous genus Pinus. See Pinus. |
| Pine |
n. |
The wood of the pine tree. |
| Pine |
n. |
A pineapple. |
| Pine-clad |
a. |
Alt. of Pine-crowned |
| Pine-crowned |
a. |
Clad or crowned with pine trees; as, pine-clad hills. |
| Pine-tree State |
|
Maine;
a nickname alluding to the pine tree in its coat of arms. |
| Pineal |
a. |
Of or pertaining to a pine cone; resembling a pine cone. |
| Pineapple |
n. |
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. |
| Pineaster |
n. |
See Pinaster. |
| Pined |
imp. & p. p. |
of Pine |
| Pinedrops |
n. |
A reddish herb (Pterospora andromedea) of the United States, found parasitic on the roots of pine trees. |
| Pinefinch |
n. |
A small American bird (Spinus, / Chrysomitris, spinus);
called also pine siskin, and American siskin. |
| Pinefinch |
n. |
The pine grosbeak. |
| Pinenchyma |
n. |
Tabular parenchyma, a form of cellular tissue in which the cells are broad and flat, as in some kinds of epidermis. |
| Pineries |
pl. |
of Pinery |
| Pinery |
n. |
A pine forest; a grove of pines. |
| Pinery |
n. |
A hothouse in which pineapples are grown. |
| Pinesap |
n. |
A reddish fleshy herb of the genus Monotropa (M. hypopitys), formerly thought to be parasitic on the roots of pine trees, but more probably saprophytic. |
| Pinetum |
n. |
A plantation of pine trees; esp., a collection of living pine trees made for ornamental or scientific purposes. |
| Pineweed |
n. |
A low, bushy, nearly leafless herb (Hypericum Sarothra), common in sandy soil in the Eastern United States. |
| Piney |
a. |
See Piny. |
| Piney |
a. |
A term used in designating an East Indian tree (the Vateria Indica or piney tree, of the order Dipterocarpeae, which grows in Malabar, etc.) or its products. |
| Pinfeather |
n. |
A feather not fully developed; esp., a rudimentary feather just emerging through the skin. |
