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- English Word Pin-tailed Definition Having a tapered tail, with the middle feathers longest; -- said of birds.
- English Word Pinaces Definition of Pinax
- English Word Pinacoid Definition A plane parallel to two of the crystalline axes.
- English Word Pinacolin Definition 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.
- English Word Pinacone Definition 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.
- English Word Pinacotheca Definition A picture gallery.
- English Word Pinafore Definition An apron for a child to protect the front part of dress; a tier.
- English Word Pinakothek Definition Pinacotheca.
- English Word Pinaster Definition A species of pine (Pinus Pinaster) growing in Southern Europe.
- English Word Pinax Definition A tablet; a register; hence, a list or scheme inscribed on a tablet.
- English Word Pince-nez Definition Eyeglasses kept on the nose by a spring.
- English Word Pincers Definition See Pinchers.
- English Word Pinch Definition 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.
- English Word Pinch Definition o seize; to grip; to bite; -- said of animals.
- English Word Pinch Definition To plait.
- English Word Pinch Definition Figuratively: To cramp; to straiten; to oppress; to starve; to distress; as, to be pinched for money.
- English Word Pinch Definition To move, as a railroad car, by prying the wheels with a pinch. See Pinch, n., 4.
- English Word Pinch Definition To act with pressing force; to compress; to squeeze; as, the shoe pinches.
- English Word Pinch Definition To take hold; to grip, as a dog does.
- English Word Pinch Definition To spare; to be niggardly; to be covetous.
- English Word Pinch Definition A close compression, as with the ends of the fingers, or with an instrument; a nip.
- English Word Pinch Definition As much as may be taken between the finger and thumb; any very small quantity; as, a pinch of snuff.
- English Word Pinch Definition Pian; pang.
- English Word Pinch Definition A lever having a projection at one end, acting as a fulcrum, -- used chiefly to roll heavy wheels, etc. Called also pinch bar.
- English Word Pinchbeck Definition 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.
- English Word Pinchbeck Definition Made of pinchbeck; sham; cheap; spurious; unreal.
- English Word Pinchcock Definition A clamp on a flexible pipe to regulate the flow of a fluid through the pipe.
- English Word Pinched Definition of Pinch
- English Word Pinchem Definition The European blue titmouse.
- English Word Pincher Definition One who, or that which, pinches.