m pin 
made on purpofe, and conduced with accuracy, it appears 
that (heep, cows, horfes, goats, and Twine, will not feed 
upon this plant. It is represented on the annexed En¬ 
graving, of the natural fize, at fig. i. 
To diftinguiffi this fpecies from others, it may be re¬ 
marked, that P. vulgaris has an unequal limb, (harp 
(lender fpur, and oval capfule : P. alpina has a very (hort 
conical lpur, and along roftrated capfule: P. villofa a 
flender fliarp fpur, and obcordate compreffed capfule; 
with (hort round leaves. Its hairy (talk and regular limb 
agree nearly with P. lufitanica, but the villofa is fmaller 
in all its parts. Ray had remarked that the leaves are 
almoft pellucid, marked with purplifh veins, and the 
edges rolled in; that the flowers are fmaller, with more 
of a reddifti caft, than in P. vulgaris. 
4. Pinguicula grandiflora, or great : flo wered butterwort: 
neitary awl-lhaped, ftraight, the length of the flower; 
upper lip fpreadir.g, emarginate. The flowers are three 
times the fize of thofeofthe preceding, of a violet-purple 
Colour.- fpur awl-lhaped, the length of the flower; 
upper lip dilated, emarginate ; lower wide, bluntly three- 
lobed, and not deeply three-parted, as in P. vulgaris. 
Native of mountains in the fouth of France. 
5. Pinguicula alpina, or alpine butterwort: nectary 
awl-lhaped, reflex, Ihorter than the petals; corolla white 
with a reflex fpur. Native of the alps of Lapland, Nonvay, 
Sw'ifl'erland, Auftria, Germany, Dauphine, and Piedmont. 
It flowers earlier than the common fort. Villars remarks, 
that the flower is more open, the neftary Ihorter, and the 
leaves wider, lefs elongated, and more yellow, than the 
common fort. 
6. Pinguicula villofa, or villofe butterwort: fcape 
drift, pubefceiit; neftary awl-lhaped, ftraight, very (hort; 
leaves nerved. Corolla violet-coloured, with the fpur 
Itanding out. It is fix times lefs in all its parts than P. 
vulgaris. It differs from P. lufitanica in having the fcape 
drift, the leaves three-nerved, and the flowers fmaller. 
Native of Lapland, Norway, and Siberia. 
PIN'GUID, adj. [pinguis, Lat.] Fat; untfuous.— 
Some clays are more' pinguid, and other more flippery; 
yet all are very tenacious of water on the furface. Mortimer. 
PIN'GUIN, /'. A Weft-Indian name,adopted as generic 
by Dillenius, in Hort. Elth. 320. t. 240. See Bromelia. 
PIN'GUIN, or Penguin, f. in ornithology. See Ap- 
TENODYTES, vol. i. 
PIN'GUITY, /. Fatnefs. Bailey. 
PINHEI'RA de AZE'RE, a town of Portugal, in the 
province of Beira, on the Mondego : fifteen miles fouth- 
weft of Vifeu. 
PIN'HEL, a town of Portugal, in the province of 
Beira, fortified, and fituated on a mountain. It contains 
fix parifti-churches, and about 1600 inhabitants : feven 
miles north-eaft of Almeida, and forty-five fouth-eaft of 
Lamego. Lat. 40. 33. N. Ion. 6.44. W. 
PI'NI FO'LIIS PLANTE'A. See Protea. 
PINIF'EROUS, adj. [from the Lat. pinus, a pine, and 
fero, to bear.] Bearing pines. 
PIN'ION, f. [ pignon , Fr.] The joint of the wing re- 
moteft from the body. Shakefpeare feems to ufe it lor a 
feather or quill of the wing : 
He is pluckt, when hither 
He fends fo poor a pinion of his wing. Shakefpeare. 
Wing: 
Flow oft do they with golden pinions cleave 
The flitting Ikies, like flying purfuivant. Spenfcr. 
Though fear Ihould lend him pinions like the wind, 
Yet fwifter fate will (eize him from behind. Swift. 
Fetters or bonds for the arms. 
Pinion, in mechanics, an arbor, or fpindle, in the body 
whereof are feveral notches, into which catch the teeth 
of a wheel that ferves to turn it round. Or a pinion is a 
(mall wheel, which plays in the teeth of a larger. In a- 
P I N 
watch, &c. the notches of a pinion are called leaves, and 
not teeth, as in other wheels. 
To PIN'ION, v. a. To bind the wings.—'Whereas they 
have facrificed to themfelves, they become facrifices to the 
inconftancy of fortune, whofe wings they thought by 
their felf-wifdom to have pinioned. Bacon. —To confine 
by binding the wings;'to maim by cutting off 7 the fil'd 
joint of the wing. To bind the arm to the body: 
A fecond fpearfent with equal force, 
His right arm pierc’d, and, holding on, bereft 
His tile of both, and pinion'd down his left. Dryden. 
To confine by binding the elbows to the fides : 
Swarming at his back the country cry’d, 
And feiz’d and pinion'd brought to court the knight. 
Dryden. 
To lhackle ; to bind.—Know, that I will not wait pinion'd 
at your matter's court: rather make my country’s high 
pyramids my gibbet, and hang me up in chains. Shake- 
fpeare’s Ant. and Cleop. 
O loofe this frame, this knot of man untie ! 
That my free foul may ufe her wing, 
Which now is pinion’d with mortality, 
As an entangled hamper’d thing. Herbert. 
In vain from chains and fetters free. 
The great man boafts of liberty ; 
Lie’s pinion'd up by formal rules of ftate. Norris. 
To bind to. Not proper. 
So by each bard an alderman fhnll fit, 
A heavy load (hall hang at every wit; 
And, while on fame’s triumphant car they ride, 
Some (lave of mine be pinion'd to their fide. Pope. 
PIN'IONED, adj. Furniflied with wings.—The wings 
of fwans, and ftronger -pinioned rhyme. Dryden’s Virg. 
Eclogues. 
PIN'IONIST,/. [from pinion."] Any bird that flies: 
He fung tlie outrage of the lazy drone 
Upon the labouring bee, in drains fo rare. 
That all the flitting pinionifts of air 
Attentive fat. Brown's Brit. Pajl. 
PI'NITE, f. in mineralogy. See Mica micarelli, vol. 
xv. p. 317,18. 
PINK, f. [ pince , Fr. from pink, Dutch, an eye; whence 
the French word 0fillet, i.e. eyelet.] A fmall fragrant 
flower of the gilliflower kind. See Dianthus. —In May 
and June come pinks of all forts ; efpecially the bluilh 
pink. Bacon's Ejj'.— An eye; commonly a fmall eye: as 
pink- eyed. 
Come, thou monarch of the vine, 
Plumpy Bacchus, with pink-e yne, 
In thy vats our cares be drown’d. . Shakefpeare. 
Any thing fupremely excellent. I know not (fays Dr. 
Johnfon) whether from the flower, or the eye, or a cor¬ 
ruption of pinnacle. —Tom Courtly is the pink ofcourtefy. 
Taller, N° 204. 
Then let Crifpino, who was ne’er refus’d 
The juftice yet of being well abus’d. 
With patience wait; and be content to reign 
The pink of puppies in fome future drain. Young. 
A colour ufed by painters.— Pink is very fufceptible of 
the other colours by the mixture ; if you mix brown- 
red with it, you will make it a very earthy colour. Dry- 
den's Dufrefnoy .— [Pinclie , Danifti; pinque, Fr.] A kind 
of heavy (hip with a very narrow ilern ; whence all vef- 
fels, however fmall, whofe fterns are fafiiioned after this 
manner, are called pink-ferried. — Pinks are Mediterranean 
veflfeis, which, differ from the xebec only in being more 
lofty, and not fliarp in the bottom, as they areveflels of 
burthen. They have long narrow fterns, and three mails, 
carrying latteen-fails. Chambers. — As a woman is often 
likened to a frigate, or other’lhip, fo fometimes to a pink : 
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