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  • English Word Pimpillo Definition A West Indian name for the prickly pear (Opuntia); -- called also pimploes.
  • English Word Pimpinel Definition The burnet saxifrage. See under Saxifrage.
  • English Word Pimping Definition of Pimp
  • English Word Pimping Definition Little; petty; pitiful.
  • English Word Pimping Definition Puny; sickly.
  • English Word Pimple Definition Any small acuminated elevation of the cuticle, whether going on to suppuration or not.
  • English Word Pimple Definition Fig.: A swelling or protuberance like a pimple.
  • English Word Pimpled Definition Having pimples.
  • English Word Pimply Definition Pimpled.
  • English Word Pimpship Definition The office, occupation, or persom of a pimp.
  • English Word Pin Definition To peen.
  • English Word Pin Definition To inclose; to confine; to pen; to pound.
  • English Word Pin Definition 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.
  • English Word Pin Definition Especially, a small, pointed and headed piece of brass or other wire (commonly tinned), largely used for fastening clothes, attaching papers, etc.
  • English Word Pin Definition Hence, a thing of small value; a trifle.
  • English Word Pin Definition That which resembles a pin in its form or use
  • English Word Pin Definition A peg in musical instruments, for increasing or relaxing the tension of the strings.
  • English Word Pin Definition A linchpin.
  • English Word Pin Definition A rolling-pin.
  • English Word Pin Definition A clothespin.
  • English Word Pin Definition A short shaft, sometimes forming a bolt, a part of which serves as a journal.
  • English Word Pin Definition The tenon of a dovetail joint.
  • English Word Pin Definition One of a row of pegs in the side of an ancient drinking cup to mark how much each man should drink.
  • English Word Pin Definition The bull's eye, or center, of a target; hence, the center.
  • English Word Pin Definition Mood; humor.
  • English Word Pin Definition Caligo. See Caligo.
  • English Word Pin Definition An ornament, as a brooch or badge, fastened to the clothing by a pin; as, a Masonic pin.
  • English Word Pin Definition The leg; as, to knock one off his pins.
  • English Word Pin Definition To fasten with, or as with, a pin; to join; as, to pin a garment; to pin boards together.
  • English Word Pin-eyed Definition 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.