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  • English Word Pinic Definition 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.
  • English Word Pining Definition of Pine
  • English Word Pining Definition Languishing; drooping; wasting away, as with longing.
  • English Word Pining Definition Wasting; consuming.
  • English Word Piningly Definition In a pining manner; droopingly.
  • English Word Pinion Definition A moth of the genus Lithophane, as L. antennata, whose larva bores large holes in young peaches and apples.
  • English Word Pinion Definition A feather; a quill.
  • English Word Pinion Definition A wing, literal or figurative.
  • English Word Pinion Definition The joint of bird's wing most remote from the body.
  • English Word Pinion Definition A fetter for the arm.
  • English Word Pinion Definition 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.
  • English Word Pinion Definition To bind or confine the wings of; to confine by binding the wings.
  • English Word Pinion Definition To disable by cutting off the pinion joint.
  • English Word Pinion Definition To disable or restrain, as a person, by binding the arms, esp. by binding the arms to the body.
  • English Word Pinion Definition Hence, generally, to confine; to bind; to tie up.
  • English Word Pinioned Definition of Pinion
  • English Word Pinioned Definition Having wings or pinions.
  • English Word Pinioning Definition of Pinion
  • English Word Pinionist Definition Any winged creature.
  • English Word Pinite Definition 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.
  • English Word Pinite Definition Any fossil wood which exhibits traces of having belonged to the Pine family.
  • English Word Pinite Definition A sweet white crystalline substance extracted from the gum of a species of pine (Pinus Lambertina). It is isomeric with, and resembles, quercite.
  • English Word Pink Definition A vessel with a very narrow stern; -- called also pinky.
  • English Word Pink Definition To wink; to blink.
  • English Word Pink Definition Half-shut; winking.
  • English Word Pink Definition To pierce with small holes; to cut the edge of, as cloth or paper, in small scallops or angles.
  • English Word Pink Definition To stab; to pierce as with a sword.
  • English Word Pink Definition To choose; to cull; to pick out.
  • English Word Pink Definition A stab.
  • English Word Pink Definition 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.