Pinicola 
to northerly partsof the northern hemisphere, 
where the birds chiefly Inhabit coniferous regions. See 
cut under 
2. A genus of hymenopterous insects. 
pinicoline (pi-nik'o-lin), a. [As piiiicot-ous + 
-/<'.] Inhabiting or frequenting pines or other 
coniferous woods: said of various animals. 
Ootut. 
pinicolous (pi-nik'o-lus), a. [< L. pinus, a pine, 
pine-tree, + colere, inhabit, + -oiis.] Same as 
Pinion-hones or Manu 
piniform (pi'ni-fdrm), a. [< L. pinus, a pine, 
pine-tree, + forma, form.] Resembling a pine- 
cone Piniform decussation, t In 1 decussatlon of fibers 
In the oblongata above the decussation of the pyramids : it 
lies between the pyramids and the central gray matter. 
pining (pi'ning), n. [< ME. pining, pyning, < 
AS. [)in tiny, torment, torture, pain, verbal n. of 
/niiiitii, torment: seepine 2 , r.j 1. Punishment; 
torture. 2. Suffering. 
piningly (pi'ning-li), adv. In a pining or lan- 
guishing manner; by wasting away. 
pining-stoplt (pi'ning-st81), n. [< M'E.pynyng- 
xtole; (pitting + stool."] A cucking-stool. 
To punyshen on pillories and on pynyng-itole*. 
Pien Phncman (CX Iv. 79. 
pinion 1 (pin'yon), n. [Formerly also pinnion; 
< ME. pinion, pynaon, < OF. pignon, pennon, 
panon, a pinion, plume, feather of an arrow, 
same as pennon, penon, etc., a flag, banner, = 
Sp. pifton, pinion, = It. pennone, a bunch of 
feathers, a pennon, < L. pen- 
na, pinna, wing, feather: see 
pin*, pen?, and cf. pinion?, 
another use of the same 
word.] 1. A feather; espe- 
cially, a remex or flignt- 
feather. 
He is pluck'd, when hither 
He sends so poor a pinion of his 
wing. SAo*., A. and C., 111. 12. 4. 
2. The wing of a bird, or 
the flight-feathers collec- 
tively. 
Tell me if e'er your tender Pinions 
bore 
Such weight of Woe. 
Congreve, Tears of Amaryllis. 
To Daphne's window speed thy 
way; 
And there on quivering pinions 
rise. 
And there thy vocal art display. 
Shemtone, Sky Lark. 
3. Technically, in ornilh., 
the joint of a bird's wing fur- of A ,iuit HO.I." t^icKer 
thest from the body; the &",*?? 
distal Segment Of the WlUg ; ulnar carpal ; ^, radial 
the manus, consisting of Sg'ftttSSSZ 
the carpus, metacarpus, and pa'. h """K ';"" p'" 1 ?"- 
phalanges, collectively bear- F^'dTVi." another* nletL 
me the primary remiges, or c ini. hearing one sm.iii 
. . *!.. , , / ., , phalanx. 1 he first meta- 
largest flight-feathers, and carpal is the ankylose.l 
the alula or bastard-wing. K"","" head ' " 
Most adult birds show the seven 
separate bones of the pinion here figured ; but in a few 
adults, and probably in all embryos, the osseous elements 
are more numerous. 
4. In i nil mi., one of various moths: as, the 
brown-spot pin ion, Anchocelis litura. 5. [<pin- 
ioni, r.] A shackle or band for the arm. Ains- 
icorth. 
pinion 1 (pin'yon), v. t. [Formerly also innnion ; 
< /miion 1 , .] " 1. To bind or confine the wings 
of (a bird); restrain or confine by binding 
the wings, or by cutting off the pinions ; bind 
or confine (the wings). A very common but cruel 
method of pinioning, practised especially upon geese by 
poulterers, is to twist the pinion over the next Joint of the 
wing, where it is confined by the primaries resting upon 
the secondaries. 
Not like a tame bird, that returns ; nor like hawk, that 
will shew where she is by her bells; but like an eagle, 
whose wings thou canst neither clip nor pinion. 
Jtev. T. Adana, Works, I. 432. 
2. To bind or confine the arm or arms of (a 
person) to the body so as to disable or render 
incapable of resistance ; shackle. 
Know, sir, that I 
Will not wait frinion'd at your master's court 
Shak., A. and C., v. 2. 58. 
Away with him ! Ill follow you. Look you pininn him, 
nml tnke his money from him, lest he swallow a shilliiiK 
and kill himself. Beau, and Fl., Woman-Hater, v. 1. 
All their hands )\e pinnianed behtnde 
With their owne girdles. Chapman, Iliad, xxl. 
3. To bind; attach as by bonds or shackles. 
Some slave of mine be pinion'd to their side. 
Pope, Dunciad, iv. 184. 
pinion- (pin'yon), n. [Formerly also i/hiiii-m : 
< F. pitiimii. ;i small wheel, pinion, spur-nut. = 
Spur-wheel, with Pin- 
ion a. 
4499 
Sj>. jiiHon, the tooth of a wheel, pinion; a par- 
ticular use of the word represented by pinion >, 
a wing, etc., < L.penna, pinna, 
wing, feather, pinna, a limit of 
a water-wheel: seepeH 2 ,p<l, 
and cf. pinion 1 .] A small 
wheel with cogs or teeth which 
engage the teeth of a larger 
wheel with cogs or teeth, or 
sometimes only an arbqr or 
spindle having notches or 
leaves, which are caught suc- 
cessively by the teeth of the 
wheel, and the motion thereby 
communicated. See also cut under pairl-prtss. 
Flying pinion, the fly of* clock. Sk-eXw 1 , 3 (a). -Lan- 
tern-pinion. Same as lantern ichrel. Long pinion, a 
pinion whose leaves extend so far along the axis that the 
wheel Into which the pinion works can move along it* 
axis without becoming ungeared. Pinion of report, a 
smaller pinion moved by tne cannon-pinion of a clock. 
Rack and pinion. See rack. 
pinion 3 (pin'yon), . Same as piiton. [U. 8.] 
pinion-bone (pin'yon-bon), n. The bones of 
the pinion taken together. See pinion 1 , 3. 
pinion-file (pin'yon-fil), n. A small knife-edged 
file used by watchmakers. 
pinion-gage(pin'ygu-gaj),i. Fine calipers nsed 
by watchmakers. 
pinionistt (pin'yon-ist). n. [< pinion^, n., + 
-'-*'.] A winged animal; a bird. [Rare.] 
All the flitting pinmonM* of ayre 
Attentive sate. 
W. Browne, Britannia's Pastoral*, I. 4. 
pinion-jack (pin'yon-jak), n. In milling, a jack 
for ungearing the pinion which drives the 
stone. 
pinion-Wire (pin'yon-wir), n. Wire formed into 
the shape and size required for the pinions of 
clocks and watches. It is drawn. In the same man- 
ner as round wire, through plates the holes of which cor- 
respond In section to the shape of the wire. 
pinite (pin'it), n. [< Pint, a mine in Saxony, + 
-(/'-'.] A hydrous silicate of aluminium and 
potassium, occurring massive of a white to gray 
or green or brown color and dull waxy luster. 
It Is formed from the alteration of other minerals (as lo- 
lite, etc.), and has many varieties ; it Is probably essentially 
a compact muscovite. 
Pinites (pi-nl'tez), n. [NL., < L. pinus, pine: 
see pine'.] A generic name under which vari- 
ous fragments of plants, chiefly cones, have 
been described, which were supposed to belong 
or to be related to the genus Pi nits, but the 
affinities of which were uncertain. A specimen 
described by Steinberg under the name of Pinitr* pulri- 
nari Is referred by Lesquereux to Knorria, a lepldoden- 
droid plant occurring in the coal-measures. The great 
tree-trunk found near Newcastle-on-Tyne, which mea- 
sured seventy-two feet in length, and was designated &s 
1'iiritr* Brandlingi by Llndley and llutton, has been re- 
ferred by several recent writers to the Cycadace*. 
pin jinnett, n. Same as pimgenet. 
pin-joint (pin'joint), n. A form of joint in whih 
each, part is pierced with an eye and the parts 
are united by passing a pin through the eye. 
The rapidity with which bridges with pin joint! can be 
erected is an immense advantage. 
Sci. Amer. Supp., p. 8987. 
pink 1 (pingk), p. [< ME. pinken, prick ; prob. a 
nasalized form of picken, pikken, pick, peck: 
see pfofcl, Mefcl. Cf. F. piquer, prick, also pink 
(pierce with eyelet-holes). Pink. ME. pink, is 
a diff. word from ME. pingen, < AS. pyngan, < 
L. pungere, prick : see pungent.] I. trans. 1. 
To pierce; puncture: stab with a rapier or some 
similar weapon ; make a hole or holes in. 
We cut not out our clothes, sir, 
At half-sword, as your tailors do, and pin* 'em 
With pikes and partizans. Fletcher, Mad Lover, L 1. 
I will pin* your flesh full of holes with my rapier for 
this. B. Jonton, Every Han in bis Humour, IT. 1. 
"Lovel," said Mr. Coverley, affecting to whisper, "you 
must certainly pint him ; you must not put up with such 
an affront" HTM. D'ArMay, Evelina. Ixxxiii. 
2f. To decorate with punctures or holes ; tattoo. 
Men and women pinto their bodies, putting thereon 
grease mixed with colour. Pmrkai, Pilgrimage, p. 648. 
The sea-hedge-hogge Is enclosed In * round shell, . . . 
handsomely wrought and pindred. 
B. Came, Survey of Cornwall, p. Si 
Your Wife. 
If once well pink'd, Is cloth d for Life. 
Prior, Alma, II. 
He found thee sarage. and he left thee Ume ; 
Taught thee to clothe thy pint'd and painted hide. 
And grace thy figure with a soldier's pride. 
Cotrprr, Expostulation, 1. 486. 
Sproiticiilly 3. To decorate, as any garment 
or article made of textile fabric or leather, by 
cutting small holes of regular slmpc in succes- 
sion, scallops, loops, etc., at the edge, or else- 
pink 
where. It Is usually done with the piiiklug-lron, the ma- 
terial being laid upon a block of lead or the like. 
Buskins he wore of costliest cordwayne, 
Pinclrt upon gold, and paled part per part 
Spauer, V. y., VLii.ll. 
A doublet of black velvet . . . pinJird upon scarlet satin. 
II. t intrant. To make a hole. 
Heo pixJat with heore penne on heore parchemln. 
Pofacai Song* (ed. VrightX p. 186. 
pink 1 (pingk), H. [< pint 1 , t>.] If. A puncture 
or small hole made by some sharp slender in- 
strument such as a rapier or dagger; a stab- 
wound. 
A freebooter's pin*, sir, three or four Inches deep. 
Middleton, Your Five Gallants, 111 6. 
2. A small hole or eyelet punched in silk or 
other material with a piukiug-iron ; a scallop. 
You had rather have 
An ulcer In your body than * pin* 
More in your clothes. 
B. Jan*m, Magnetick I-ady, 111. 4. 
pink- (pingk), n. and a. [So called as having 
the edges of the petals delicately pinked or 
jagged ; < pink 1 , v. Cf . F. pinee, pink, < pincer, 
pinch, nip: seepincfc (notconnected withpiwf ). 
According to some, so called from the small dots, 
resembling eyes, on some of the species. Cf . 
Ir. pincin, a gilliflower] L n. 1. A plant of 
the genus IHanthus. The common garden pink Is D. 
ptumaritu, also called plumed or feathered pin*, and In Its 
ring-marked varieties pheamnt'i-tye pin*. See Itianthut, 
rarnationl , 3, maiden pink, meadmc-pint, 2, and phrases 
below. 
2. One of various plants of other genera, with 
some resemblance to the true pinks. See Lych- 
nis, 2, moss-pink, and phrases below. 3. A red 
color of low chroma but high luminosity, in- 
clining toward purple. 4. In painting, any 
one of several lakes of a yellow or greenish- 
yellow color, prepared by precipitating vege- 
table juices on a white base, such as chalk or 
alumina. 5. A red coat or badge, or a person 
wearing one ; specifically, a scarlet hunting- 
coat. 
With pea-coats over their pinkt. 
MaemUlan't Mag., 1. 16. 
The pin*> stand about the Inn-door lighting cigars and 
waiting to sec us start, while their hacks are led up and 
down the market-place on which the Inn looks. 
T. llwjhet, Tom Brown at Rugby, L 4. 
6. A small fish, HO called from its color, (a) A 
minnow. 
And full well may yon think. 
If yon troll with a pin*, 
One [a fishing-rod] too weak will be apt to miscarry. 
Cotton, Angler's Ballad. 
The Trout is usually ought with a worm, or a minnow, 
which some call a pen*, or with a fly. 
/. Walton, Complete Angler, p. 90. 
(6) A young grayling, (e) A young salmon before It* en- 
try Into the sea. See cut under parr. 
Presently the alevln grows into the fry, or pin*, which 
U an absurd little fish about an inch long, goggle-eyed, 
and with dark ban on It* side*. SL Kicholat, XIII. 740. 
7. A flower; in a figurative use, a beauty; 
hence, the flower or highest type or example 
of excellence in some particular; a supremely 
excellent or choice example or type of excel- 
lence : as, the pink of perfection. 
I *m the very pin* of courtesy. 
Sa*.,R.andJ., it 4. 61. 
He had a pretty pincke to his own wedded wife. 
Breton, Merry Wonders, p. 7. (Dana.) 
This Is the prettiest pilgrim. 
The pin* of pilgrim* ! Fletcher, Pilgrim, L >. 
I am happy to have obllg'd the Mlrronr of Knighthood 
and Pin* of Courtesie In the Age. 
Congreve, Old Batchelor, II. 1. 
Brown pink- See frroim. Carolina pink. See pint- 
root, 1. Carthusians' pink, IHanlhiu CarUiutianonm, a 
somewhat cultivated European species with a dense clus- 
ter of small flowers, usually dark-purple or crimson. 
Cheddar pink, a pretty dwarf species, Dianthui ctrtiut, 
found at Cheddar In England. Cushion-pink. Saim- :< 
mow-piii*. Deptford pink, * European species, Dian 
thut Annrria, with small flowers, pink dotted with white, 
adventlve In the eastern United States. Dutch pink, (a) 
A yellow lake prepared from quercitron liark. It differs 
from Italian pink in not having as much coloring matter, 
and In being usually precipitated on a chalk base Instead 
of alumina. It Is, In effect, an Inferior quality of Italian 
pink. (6) Blood, |Sl*ng.) 
That 11 take the bark from your nozzle, and distil the 
Dutch pint for you, won't It? 
CutAorrt Itede, Mr. Verdant Green, n. SI. 
Fire-pink, Silent yiryinica, a plant with brilliant scarlet 
flowers, native in the Interior United State*, sometimes 
cultivated. Glacier pink, species of the Alps and 
Pyrenees, DianUiuM negtectut, growing In low tufts whence 
spring many brilliant flowers. Grass-pink, an orchid, 
Calnpogon pulchrllut. common in North American bogs. 
It has a slender stem with a single grass-like leaf at the 
base, and a short raceme of beaattful pink -purple flowers. 
Indian pink, (a) See DianUnu. (6) Sometimes same 
as pin*rn<rf. 1 (United State*), and cypras-ruu (West In- 
dies). Italian pink, a) rlln lake prepared from i|ii> i '' 
