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- English Word Pink Definition A color resulting from the combination of a pure vivid red with more or less white; -- so called from the common color of the flower.
- English Word Pink Definition Anything supremely excellent; the embodiment or perfection of something.
- English Word Pink Definition The European minnow; -- so called from the color of its abdomen in summer.
- English Word Pink Definition Resembling the garden pink in color; of the color called pink (see 6th Pink, 2); as, a pink dress; pink ribbons.
- English Word Pink stern Definition See Chebacco, and 1st Pink.
- English Word Pink-eyed Definition Having small eyes.
- English Word Pink-sterned Definition Having a very narrow stern; -- said of a vessel.
- English Word Pinked Definition of Pink
- English Word Pinked Definition Pierced with small holes; worked in eyelets; scalloped on the edge.
- English Word Pinking Definition of Pink
- English Word Pinking Definition The act of piercing or stabbing.
- English Word Pinking Definition The act or method of decorating fabrics or garments with a pinking iron; also, the style of decoration; scallops made with a pinking iron.
- English Word Pinkish Definition Somewhat pink.
- English Word Pinkness Definition Quality or state of being pink.
- English Word Pinkroot Definition The root of Spigelia Marilandica, used as a powerful vermifuge; also, that of S. Anthelmia. See definition 2 (below).
- English Word Pinkroot Definition A perennial North American herb (Spigelia Marilandica), sometimes cultivated for its showy red blossoms. Called also Carolina pink, Maryland pinkroot, and worm grass.
- English Word Pinkroot Definition An annual South American and West Indian plant (Spigelia Anthelmia).
- English Word Pinkster Definition Whitsuntide.
- English Word Pinky Definition See 1st Pink.
- English Word Pinna Definition A leaflet of a pinnate leaf. See Illust. of Bipinnate leaf, under Bipinnate.
- English Word Pinna Definition One of the primary divisions of a decompound leaf.
- English Word Pinna Definition One of the divisions of a pinnate part or organ.
- English Word Pinna Definition Any species of Pinna, a genus of large bivalve mollusks found in all warm seas. The byssus consists of a large number of long, silky fibers, which have been used in manufacturing woven fabrics, as a curiosity.
- English Word Pinna Definition The auricle of the ear. See Ear.
- English Word Pinnace Definition A small vessel propelled by sails or oars, formerly employed as a tender, or for coast defence; -- called originally, spynace or spyne.
- English Word Pinnace Definition A man-of-war's boat.
- English Word Pinnace Definition A procuress; a pimp.
- English Word Pinnacle Definition An architectural member, upright, and generally ending in a small spire, -- used to finish a buttress, to constitute a part in a proportion, as where pinnacles flank a gable or spire, and the like. Pinnacles may be considered primarily as added weight, where it is necessary to resist the thrust of an arch, etc.
- English Word Pinnacle Definition Anything resembling a pinnacle; a lofty peak; a pointed summit.
- English Word Pinnacle Definition To build or furnish with a pinnacle or pinnacles.