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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.