pinang 
pinang (pi-nang'), w. [Malay.] The betel-nut 
palm, or its fruit. See .l/viv/, L', and urreii-niit. 
pinaster (pi-mis'ter), H. [= F. pinastre = 8p. 
It. piiitintni, < L. pinaster, < jnmm, pine: see 
The cluster-pine. Bee pine 1 . 
Pin-borer {Xylcbortts dilpar). 
. female ; a, female in lateral outline. 
(Cross shows natural size.) 
The pinaster Is nothing else but the wild pine ; It grow- 
eth wonderful! tall, putting forth armes from the mlds of 
the trunkf or Unlit- upward. 
Holland, tr. of Pliny, xvi. in. 
pinazt (pi'naks), n. [< L. pinax, < Gr. irivof, 
a board, plank, tablet, picture.] A tablet; a 
list; a register; hence, that on which anything, 
as a scheme or plan, is inscribed. 
Consider whereabout thou art In that old philosophical 
pinax of the life of man. Sir T. Browne. 
pinball-sight (piu'bal-sit), n. Same as bead- 
night. 
pinbankt (pin'bangk), n. [< pin 1 + bank 1 .] A 
bank or row of pins or spikes used in torture. 
Then was he thrlse put to the pinne banke, tormented 
most miserably, to vtter his fetters on, which bee would 
neuer do. Fuze, Martyrs, p. 817 (Hen. VIII., an. 1666). 
But alas ! when death commeth, than commeth againe 
his sorow ; than wil no soft bed serue, nor no company 
make him merle. Than he must leaue his outward wor- 
ship A cumfort of bis glory, and lie panting In his bed as 
It were on npin-banke ; than commeth his feare of his euil 
life, and of his dreadful death. 
.sir T. More, Cumfort against Tribulation (1573), fol. 41. 
pin-block (pin'blok), n. A block of wood split 
from a larger piece, and of a size adapted to 
and designed for fashioning into a pin. 
pin-borer (pin'- 
bor'er), n. The 
pear-blight bee- 
tle, Xyleborus 
iKspar, of the 
family Scolyti- 
dee : so called 
from the small 
round punc- 
tures, like large 
pinholes, which 
it makes through 
the bark. [Can- 
ada.] 
pin-bush (pin'bush), w. A fine reaming- or pol- 
ishing-tool for delicate metal-work. 
pin-buttockt (pin'but'ok), n. A sharp angular 
buttock. Shak., All's Well, ii. 2. 18. [Low.] 
pincase (pin'kas), . A case for holding pins. 
What do you lack, gentlemen? fine purses, pouches, 
pincaset, pipes? B. Jonton, Bartholomew Fan-, IIL 1. 
pince-nez (pans'na), n. [P., < pincer, pinch, 
-f- obj. nez, nose: see pinch and nose 1 .] Eye- 
glasses kept in place on the nose by a spring. 
The lady with whom India had entered put up her 
pince nez. Harper's Mag., LXXVI. 44. 
pincers (pin'serz), n. sing, and pi. [Formerly 
also pinners ; < ME. pt/mour, < OP. pincoir,pen- 
coir (applied to a kind of pincers used as a 
book-mark, and to a contrivance with iron 
stakes used in catching fish), < pincer, pinch: 
see pinch.] 1. A tool having two hinged jaws 
which can be firmly closed and held together. 
See cut under nippers. 
And with a payre of pinteri strong 
He pluckt a great tooth out 
Tamin,, of a Shrew (Child's Ballads, VIII. 187). 
2. In zoiil., nippers or prehensile claws of cer- 
tain animals, as insects and crustaceans. 
Every ant brings a small particle of that earth In her 
pincers, and lays It by the hole. Addison, Guardian. 
Specifically --(a) A chela, or chelate limb. See chelai , and 
cats under (outer and rcdipaipi? (ft) Anal forceps. 
Sometimes called pinchers. 
Saddlers' pincers, a form of pincers similar to those of 
shoemakers, but heavier and with stralghter grasping- 
Jaws. A lug projects from one of the jaws, and is used 
as a fulcrum In drawing nails, and In pulling leather for- 
ward and holding It firmly while It Is tacked or stitched. 
E. II. Knight. 
pincette (P. pron. pan-set'), n. [< P. pincette, 
pincers, tongs, <. pincer, pinch: see pinch. Cf. 
/i/Hirr*.] Nippers; tweezers. 
pinch (pinch), t). f< ME.pinchen,pynchen, pinch, 
nip, find fault with, < OF. pincer,. pincer, pinch, 
= 8p. pinchar, prick ; cf. It. picciare, picchinn . 
pinch, peck with a beak ( piccto, picchio, a beak), 
now ptzzarc, pinch, also extended pizzicare = 
8p. piznir, nip, pinch: cf. also MD. pitsen, Q. 
dial. (Bav. );.>///-:<. /!'/'. i-n, pinch; It. pinzo, a 
sting, goad. The relations of these forma are 
undetermined, and the ult. origin unknown. ] I. 
IranM. 1. To compress between the finger and 
thumb, or between the teeth, or the claws, or 
with pincers or some similar instrument; 
squeeze or nip between two hard opposing bod- 
ies; nip; squeeze: as, to pinch one's self to 
keep awake. 
4494 
Yi-t can you pinch out a false pair of sleeves to a frleza- 
do doublet. Middletan, Anything for a Quiet Life, li. 2. 
The pile was in half a minute pushed over to an old be- 
wlgged woman with eye-glasses pinching her nose. 
Oeorge KIM, Daniel Deronda, i. 
Think you Troth a farthing rushlight, to be pinched out 
when you will 
With your deft official fingers, and your politicians' skill? 
Lama, Anti-Apis. 
2. To squeeze or press painfully upon : as, his 
shoes IIIHI-II his feet. 
Stiff In Brocade, and pinch'd in Stays, 
Her Patches, Paint, and Jewels on ; ... 
And Phyllis is but Twenty-one. 
Prior, Phyllls's Age. 
When yon pull on your shoo, you best may tel 
In what part it doth chlefely pinch you. 
Ucywood, Dialogues, II. 
3. To seize or grip and bite : said of an animal. 
A hound a freckled hind 
In full course hunted ; on the fort-skirts, yet, 
He pinched and pull'd her down. 
Chapman, Odyssey, xix. 318. 
4t. To find fault with. 
As St. Paul . . . notcth it for a mark of honour above 
the rest that one is called before another to the Gospel, 
so Is It for the same cause amongst the churches. And in 
this respect he pincheth the Corinths, that, not being the 
first which received the Gospel, yet they would have their 
several manners from other churches. 
Quoted In Hooker's Eccles. Polity, Iv. 13. 
8t. To plait. 
Ful semely hlr wympel pinched was. 
Chaucer, Gen. Prol. to C. T., L 161. 
6. To straiten; distress: afflict: &s,t/o\>e pinch- 
ed for food ; pinched with poverty. 
There lies the pang that pinches me. 
Sang of the Outlaw Murray (Child's Ballads, VI. 34). 
You . . . that would enjoy, 
Where neither want can pinch, nor fulness cloy. 
Quartet, Emblems, til., Entertainment. 
How hardly will some pinch themselves and Families 
before they will make known their necessities ! 
StOlingfleet, Sermons, II. vil. 
My wife . . . insisted on entertaining them all ; for 
which . . . our family was pinched for three weeks after. 
Goldsmith, Vicar, vli. 
7. To narrow, contract, or nip, as by cold or 
want or trouble : as, pinched features ; a mind 
narrow and pinched. 
The air hath starved the roses in her cheeks, 
And tiiiirli'ti the lily-tincture of her face. 
Shak., T. G. of V., iv. 4. 160. 
I'im-h'il are her looks, as one who pines for bread. 
Crabbe, Works, L 79. 
8. To move with a pinch or crowbar: as, to 
pinch a gun into position. 
H. intrant*. 1. To exert a compressing or 
nipping pressure or force; bear hard: as, that 
is where the shoe pinches. 
I pinch not oft, nor doo I often praise ; 
Vet, must I needs praise the praise-worthy still. 
Sijlrettrr, tr. of Du Bartas's Triumph of Faith, Ded. 
But thou 
Know'st with an equal hand to hold the scale, 
Seest where the reasons pinch, and where they fall. 
Dryden. 
2. To lay hold ; bite or snap, as a dog. 
All held in dismay 
Of Dlomed, like a sort of dogs, that at a lion bay, 
And eutertalne no spirit to pinch. Chapman, Iliad, v. 
3. To snarl; carp; find fault. 
Every way this office of preaching Is pinched at 
Latimer, 6th Sermon bef. Edw. VI., 1549. 
4. To be sparing, parsimonious, or niggardly. 
For to pinche, and for to spare, 
Of worldes mucke to gette encres. 
(Joirer, Com*. Amant, v. 
Surely lyke as the excesse of fare Is to be lustely re- 
pruned, so In a noble man moche pinchyng and nygardshyp 
of meate and drynke Is to be discommended. 
Sir T. Ktuot, The Governour, ill. 21. 
The wretch whom avarice bids to pinch and spare, 
Starve, steal, and pilfer to enrich an heir. Franklin. 
Money Is exacted (either directly or through raised rent) 
from the huckster who only by extreme pinching can pay 
her way, from the mason thrown out of work by a strike. 
H. Sptncer, Man vs. State, p. 73. 
5t. To encroach. 
Yf Ich jede to the plonh Ich punchedt on bus half-acre. 
Fieri Plmeman(ty, Til. 267. 
To know <>r feel where the shoe pinches, to know by 
personal experience where the cause of difficulty or trou- 
ble In any matter lies. To pinch at*, to find fault with ; 
take exception to. 
He speke wol of smale thynges, 
As for to pynchrn at thy rekcnynges, 
That were nat honeste, If It came to nmf. 
Chaucer, I'rol. to Manciple s Tale, 1. 74. 
pinch ( pinch), n. [< pinch, r.] 1 . The pressure 
exerted by the finger and thumb when Drought 
together forcibly upon something, or any similar 
pressure; a nip: as, to give one a pinch on the 
arm. 2. As much of anything as can be lifted 
between the finger and thumb; hence, a very 
pincher 
small quantity: as, & pinch of snuff; & pinch of 
salt. 
She gave her Charity with a very good Air, but at the 
same Time asked the Church warden If he would take a 
Pineh [of snuff). Stede, Spectator, No. 844. 
3. A gripe; a pang. 
Rather I abjure all roofs, and chouse 
To wage against the enmity o' the air; 
To be a comrade with the wolf and owl 
Necessity's sharp pinch ! Shall. , Lear, li. 4. 214. 
Now, since some pinches have taken them, they beglne 
to reveile y trueth, A say M> Robinson was in y* falte. 
Cuihman, quoted hi Bradford's Plymouth Plantation, p. 72. 
4. Pressure; oppression; difficulty; need. 
The Norman In this narrow pinch, not so willingly as 
wisely, granted the desire. 
Selden, Illustrations of Drayton's Polyolblon, xvlll. 736. 
Where the pinch lay, I cannot certainly affirm. 
Svifl, Tale of a Tub, L 
Steele had the pinch of Impecnnlosity, due rather to ex- 
cess of expenditure than to smallness of income. 
Encyc. Brit., XXII. 628. 
6. A pinch-bar. 
"Pinehet or forehammers will never pick upon 't," said 
Hugh, the blacksmith. Scott, Black Dwarf, Ix. 
In, on, upon, or at a Pinch, in an emergency ; under the 
pressure of necessity. 
At a pynch a freude is knowen, 
I shall put them in adnenture. 
Bernert, tr. of Froissart's Chron., II. cxviil. 
Undone, undone, undone ! stay ; I can lie yet, 
And swear too, at a pinch ; that *s all my comfort. 
Fletcher, Humorous Lieutenant, Iv. 4. 
Although my proper employment had been to be snr- 
geon or doctor to the ship, yet often upon a pinch I was 
forced to work like a common mariner. 
Sw\ft, Gulliver's Travels, ii. 6. 
Jack at a pinch. See Jack!. Pinch points, points on 
a double line at which the two tangent planes coincide. 
pinchback (pinch'bak), n. [< pinch, v., + obj. 
back 1 .'] A miser who denies himself proper 
raiment. Mackay. 
pinch-bar (pinch'bHr), w. A lever of iron with 
a projecting snout and a fulcrum-foot, used to 
move a heavy body by a succession of small 
lifts. Also called pinching-bar. 
pinchbeck (pinch'bek), n. and a. [Short for 
Pinchbeck metal ; so called after the inventor, 
Chr. (Christopher f ) Pinchbeck, a London watch- 
maker of the 18th century.] I. n. An alloy of 
three or four parts of copper with one of zinc, 
much used in cheap jewelry. 
Illness or sorrow shut us in away from the world's glare, 
that we may see colors as they are, and know gold from 
pinchbeck. T. Wutihrop, Cecil Dreeme, xvll. 
Many wore ear-hoops of pinchbeck, large as H dollar. 
S. Judd, Margaret, I. in. 
H. a. Sharn; spurious; bogus. 
Most of these men were of the school of Molyneux, and 
theirs was pinchbeck patriotism. 
Westminster Keo., CXXVIII. 796. 
The pinchbeck heroism that was so ridiculous In that 
singularly unherolc age . . . had its first exponent in 
Defoe. New Princeton Her., VI. 9. 
pinch-cock (pinch'kpk), w. A clamp for com- 
pressing a flexible pipe, either to regulate the 
flow of a liquid through it or to serve as a stop- 
cock by holding the sides of the tube in contact. 
An india-rubber tube furnished with a pinch-cock. 
Ure, Diet., IV. 240. 
pinchcommonst (pinch'kom'onz), n. [< pinch, 
r., + obj. common*, 4.] A parsimonious per- 
son ; a niggard ; a miser. 
The crazed projector, and the niggardly pinch-Gmimonii 
by which It [a house] is inhabited. Scott, Pirate, vl. 
pinche, n. Same Aspincho. 
pinched (pincht), p. a. 1. Compressed; con- 
tracted ; narrowed ; presenting the appearance 
of being straitened in circumstances or with 
cold, want, trouble, or the like: as, a pinflml 
face; a pinched look. Also used occasionally with 
the meaning of ' narrowing ' or ' thinning ' in speaking of 
mineral veins : as, the vein is pinched. 
2. Narrow; reduced in size ; "skimped": said 
especially of some forms of writing-paper : as, 
pinched post. 3. Petty; contemptible. 
He has dlscover'd my design, and I 
Remain a pinch'd thing. Shak., W. T., IL 1. 61. 
4. Arrested ; apprehended. [Thieves' slang.] 
5. Of long, slender growth, as oysters. 
pinchem (pin'chem), n. [Also pincAer; imita- 
tive of its note.]] The note of the titmouse ; 
hence, a titmouse, as Parun cxrulevs. [Prov. 
Eng.] 
pincher 1 (pin'cher), n. [< ME. 'pinrhcr, pyii- 
char; < pinch + -er 1 .] 1. One who or that 
which pinches. 2. Aniggard; amisc-r. I'mm/it. 
Pan., p. 399. 3. Among quarrymeii, etc., a 
person using a pinch, in contradistinction to 
those moving stones, etc., otherwise. 
pincher- (pin'rlier), <>. .Same as //im-lii HI. 
