Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter P - Page 65
Pin (n.) That which resembles a pin in its form or use; as:
Pin (n.) A peg in musical instruments, for increasing or relaxing the tension of the strings.
Pin (n.) A linchpin.
Pin (n.) A rolling-pin.
Pin (n.) A clothespin.
Pin (n.) (Mach.) A short shaft, sometimes forming a bolt, a part of which serves as a journal. See Illust. of Knuckle joint, under Knuckle.
Pin (n.) (Joinery) The tenon of a dovetail joint.
Pin (n.) One of a row of pegs in the side of an ancient drinking cup to mark how much each man should drink.
Pin (n.) The bull's eye, or center, of a target; hence, the center. [Obs.] "The very pin of his heart cleft." -- Shak.
Pin (n.) Mood; humor. [Obs.] "In merry pin." -- Cowper.
Pin (n.) (Med.) Caligo. See Caligo. -- Shak.
Pin (n.) An ornament, as a brooch or badge, fastened to the clothing by a pin; as, a Masonic pin.
Pin (n.) The leg; as, to knock one off his pins. [Slang]
Banking pin (Horol.), A pin against which a lever strikes, to limit its motion.
Pin drill (Mech.), A drill with a central pin or projection to enter a hole, for enlarging the hole, or for sinking a recess for the head of a bolt, etc.; a counterbore.
Pin grass. (Bot.) See Alfilaria.
Pin hole, A small hole made by a pin; hence, any very small aperture or perforation.
Pin lock, A lock having a cylindrical bolt; a lock in which pins, arranged by the key, are used instead of tumblers.
Pin money, An allowance of money, as that made by a husband to his wife, for private and personal expenditure.
Pin rail (Naut.), A rail, usually within the bulwarks, to hold belaying pins. Sometimes applied to the fife rail. Called also pin rack.
Pin wheel. (a) A contrate wheel in which the cogs are cylindrical pins.
Pin wheel. (b) (Fireworks) A small coil which revolves on a common pin and makes a wheel of yellow or colored fire.
Pinned (imp. & p. p.) of Pin.
Pinning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Pin.
Pin (v. t.) To fasten with, or as with, a pin; to join; as, to pin a garment; to pin boards together. "As if she would pin her to her heart." -- Shak.
To pin one's faith upon, To depend upon; to trust to.
Pin (n.) A piece of jewelry that is pinned onto the wearer's garment.
Pin (n.) When a wrestler's shoulders are forced to the mat [syn: fall, pin].
Pin (n.) Small markers inserted into a surface to mark scores or define locations etc. [syn: peg, pin].
Pin (n.) A number you choose and use to gain access to various accounts [syn: personal identification number, PIN, PIN number].
Pin (n.) Informal terms for the leg; "fever left him weak on his sticks" [syn: pin, peg, stick].
Pin (n.) Axis consisting of a short shaft that supports something that turns [syn: pivot, pin].
Pin (n.) Cylindrical tumblers consisting of two parts that are held in place by springs; when they are aligned with a key the bolt can be thrown [syn: pin, pin tumbler].
Pin (n.) Flagpole used to mark the position of the hole on a golf green [syn: pin, flag].
Pin (n.) A small slender (often pointed) piece of wood or metal used to support or fasten or attach things.
Pin (n.) A holder attached to the gunwale of a boat that holds the oar in place and acts as a fulcrum for rowing [syn: peg, pin, thole, tholepin, rowlock, oarlock].
Pin (n.) A club-shaped wooden object used in bowling; set up in triangular groups of ten as the target [syn: bowling pin, pin].
Pin (v.) To hold fast or prevent from moving; "The child was pinned under the fallen tree" [syn: trap, pin, immobilize, immobilise].
Pin (v.) Attach or fasten with pins or as if with pins; "pin the needle to the shirt". "pin the blame on the innocent man" [ant: unpin].
Pin (v.) Pierce with a pin; "pin down the butterfly."
Pin (v.) Immobilize a piece.
PIN, () Personal Identification Number (banking, ICC).
PIN, () Personal Internet Name (RFC 3042).
PIN, () Processor Independent Netware (Novell, HP, DEC, Apple, Sun).
Personal Identification Number
PIN
(PIN, "PIN number") A password, typically four digits entered through a telephone keypad or automatic teller machine.
(1996-11-03)
PINT. () A liquid measure containing half a quart or the eighth part of a gallon.
Piña Cloth (n.) A fine material for ladies' shawls, scarfs, handkerchiefs, etc., made from the fiber of the pineapple leaf, and perhaps from other fibrous tropical leaves. It is delicate, soft, and transparent, with a slight tinge of pale yellow.
Piña Cloth (n.) A fine fabric made from the fibres of the pineapple leaf.
Pinacoid (n.) (Crystallog.) A plane parallel to two of the crystalline axes.
Pinacolin (n.) (Chem.) A colorless oily liquid related to the ketones, and obtained by the decomposition of pinacone; hence, by extension, any one of the series of which pinacolin proper is the type. [Written also pinacoline.]
Pinacone (n.) (Chem.) A white crystalline substance related to the glycols, and made from acetone; hence, by extension, any one of a series of substances of which pinacone proper is the type. [Written also pinakone.]
Pinacotheca (n.) A picture gallery.
Pinafore (n.) An apron for a child to protect the front part of dress; a tier.
Pinafore (n.) A sleeveless dress resembling an apron; worn over other clothing [syn: jumper, pinafore, pinny].
Pinakothek (n.) [G.] Pinacotheca.
Pinaster (n.) (Bot.) A species of pine ({Pinus Pinaster) growing in Southern Europe.
Pinaces (n. pl. ) of Pinax.
Pinax (n.) A tablet; a register; hence, a list or scheme inscribed on a tablet. [R.] -- Sir T. Browne.
Pince-nez (n.) Eyeglasses kept on the nose by a spring.
Pince-nez (n.) Spectacles clipped to the nose by a spring.
Pincers (n. pl.) See Pinchers.
Pinched (imp. & p. p.) of Pinch.
Pinching (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Pinch.
Pinch (v. t.) To press hard or squeeze between the ends of the fingers, between teeth or claws, or between the jaws of an instrument; to squeeze or compress, as between any two hard bodies.
Pinch (v. t.) To seize; to grip; to bite; -- said of animals. [Obs.]
He [the hound] pinched and pulled her down. -- Chapman.
Pinch (v. t.) To plait. [Obs.]
Full seemly her wimple ipinched was. -- Chaucer.
Pinch (v. t.) Figuratively: To cramp; to straiten; to oppress; to starve; to distress; as, to be pinched for money.
Want of room . . . pinching a whole nation. -- Sir W. Raleigh.
Pinch (v. t.) To move, as a railroad car, by prying the wheels with a pinch. See Pinch, n., 4.
Pinch (v. t.) To seize by way of theft; to steal; to lift. [Slang] -- Robert Barr.
Pinch (v. t.) to catch; to arrest (a criminal).
Pinch (v. i.) To act with pressing force; to compress; to squeeze; as, the shoe pinches.
Pinch (v. i.) (Hunt.) To take hold; to grip, as a dog does. [Obs.]
Pinch (v. i.) To spare; to be niggardly; to be covetous. -- Gower.
The wretch whom avarice bids to pinch and spare. -- Franklin.
To pinch at, To find fault with; to take exception to. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Pinch (n.) A close compression, as with the ends of the fingers, or with an instrument; a nip.
Pinch (n.) As much as may be taken between the finger and thumb; any very small quantity; as, a pinch of snuff.
Pinch (n.) Pian; pang. "Necessary's sharp pinch." -- Shak.
Pinch (n.) A lever having a projection at one end, acting as a fulcrum, -- used chiefly to roll heavy wheels, etc. Called also pinch bar.
At a pinch, On a pinch, in an emergency; as, he could on a pinch read a little Latin.
Pinch (n.) A painful or straitened circumstance; "the pinch of the recession."
Pinch (n.) An injury resulting from getting some body part squeezed.
Pinch (n.) A slight but appreciable amount; "this dish could use a touch of garlic" [syn: touch, hint, tinge, mite, pinch, jot, speck, soupcon].
Pinch (n.) A sudden unforeseen crisis (usually involving danger) that requires immediate action; "he never knew what to do in an emergency" [syn: emergency, exigency, pinch].
Pinch (n.) A small sharp bite or snip [syn: nip, pinch].
Pinch (n.) A squeeze with the fingers [syn: pinch, tweak].
Pinch (n.) The act of apprehending (especially apprehending a criminal); "the policeman on the beat got credit for the collar" [syn: apprehension, arrest, catch, collar, pinch, taking into custody].
Pinch (v.) Squeeze tightly between the fingers; "He pinched her behind"; "She squeezed the bottle" [syn: pinch, squeeze, twinge, tweet, nip, twitch].
Pinch (v.) Make ridges into by pinching together [syn: crimp, pinch].
Pinch (v.) Make off with belongings of others [syn: pilfer, cabbage, purloin, pinch, abstract, snarf, swipe, hook, sneak, filch, nobble, lift].
Pinch (v.) Cut the top off; "top trees and bushes" [syn: top, pinch].
Pinch (v.) Irritate as if by a nip, pinch, or tear; "smooth surfaces can vellicate the teeth"; "the pain is as if sharp points pinch your back" [syn: pinch, vellicate].
Pinch, WV -- U.S. Census Designated Place in West Virginia
Population (2000): 2811
Housing Units (2000): 1194
Land area (2000): 3.507567 sq. miles (9.084557 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.037141 sq. miles (0.096194 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 3.544708 sq. miles (9.180751 sq. km)
FIPS code: 63772
Located within: West Virginia (WV), FIPS 54
Location: 38.406348 N, 81.484682 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Pinch, WV
Pinch
Pinchbeck (n.) An alloy of copper and zinc, resembling gold; a yellow metal, composed of about three ounces of zinc to a pound of copper. It is much used as an imitation of gold in the manufacture of cheap jewelry.
Pinchbeck (a.) Made of pinchbeck; sham; cheap; spurious; unreal. "A pinchbeck throne." -- J. A. Symonds.
Pinchbeck (a.) Serving as an imitation or substitute; "pinchbeck heroism."
Pinchbeck (n.) An alloy of copper and zinc that is used in cheap jewelry to imitate gold.
Pinchcock (n.) A clamp on a flexible pipe to regulate the flow of a fluid through the pipe.
Pinchem (n.) (Zool.) The European blue titmouse. [Prov. Eng.]
Pincher (n.) One who, or that which, pinches.
Pinchers (n. pl.) An instrument having two handles and two grasping jaws working on a pivot; -- used for griping things to be held fast, drawing nails, etc.
Note: This spelling is preferable to pincers, both on account of its derivation from the English pinch, and because it represents the common pronunciation.
Pinchfist (n.) A closefisted person; a miser.
Pinching (a.) Compressing; nipping; griping; niggardly; as, pinching cold; a pinching parsimony.
Pinching bar, A pinch bar. See Pinch, n., 4.
Pinching nut, A check nut. See under Check, n.
Pinchingly (adv.) In a pinching way.
Pinchpenny (n.) A miserly person.
Pincoffin (n.) A commercial preparation of garancin, yielding fine violet tints.
Pincpinc (n.) (Zool.) An African wren warbler. ({Drymoica textrix).
Pincushion (n.) A small cushion, in which pins may be stuck for use. Pindal
Pincushion (n.) A small stiff cushion into which pins are stuck ready for use.
Pindal (n.) Alt. of Pindar.
Pindar (n.) (Bot.) The peanut ({Arachis hypogaea); -- so called in the West Indies.
Pindar (n.) Greek lyric poet remembered for his odes (518?-438? BC)
Pindaric (a.) Of or pertaining to Pindar, the Greek lyric poet; after the style and manner of Pindar; as, Pindaric odes.
Pindaric (n.) A Pindaric ode.
Pindaric (n.) An ode form used by Pindar; has triple groups of triple units [syn: Pindaric ode, Pindaric].
Pindarical (a.) Pindaric.
Too extravagant and Pindarical for prose. -- Cowley.
Pindarism (n.) Imitation of Pindar.
Pindarist (n.) One who imitates Pindar.
Pinder (n.) One who impounds; a poundkeeper. [Obs.]
Pine (n.) Woe; torment; pain. [Obs.] "Pyne of hell." -- Chaucer.
Pined (imp. & p. p.) of Pine.
Pining (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Pine.
Pine (v. t.) To inflict pain upon; to torment; to torture; to afflict. [Obs.] -- Chaucer. Shak.
That people that pyned him to death. -- Piers Plowman.
One is pined in prison, another tortured on the rack. -- Bp. Hall.
Pine (v. t.) To grieve or mourn for. [R.] -- Milton.
Pine (v. i.) To suffer; to be afflicted. [Obs.]
Pine (v. i.) To languish; to lose flesh or wear away, under any distress or anexiety of mind; to droop; -- often used with away. "The roses wither and the lilies pine." -- Tickell.
Pine (v. i.) To languish with desire; to waste away with longing for something; -- usually followed by for.
For whom, and not for Tybalt, Juliet pined. -- Shak.
Syn: To languish; droop; flag; wither; decay.
Pine (n.) (Bot.) Any tree of the coniferous genus Pinus. See Pinus.
Note: There are about twenty-eight species in the United white pine ({Pinus Strobus">States, of which the white pine ({Pinus Strobus), Georgia pine ({Pinus australis"> the Georgia pine ({Pinus australis), the red pine ({Pinus resinosa), and the great West Coast sugar pine ({Pinus Lambertiana}) are among the most valuable. The Scotch pine or fir, also called Norway or Norway or Riga pine ({Pinus sylvestris), is the only British species. The nut pine is any pine tree, or species of pine, which bears large edible seeds. See Pinon.
The spruces, firs, larches, and true cedars, though formerly considered pines, are now commonly assigned to other genera.
Pine (n.) The wood of the pine tree.
Pine (n.) A pineapple.
Pine (n.) A coniferous tree [syn: pine, pine tree, true pine].
Pine (n.) Straight-grained durable and often resinous white to yellowish timber of any of numerous trees of the genus Pinus.
Pine (v.) Have a desire for something or someone who is not present; "She ached for a cigarette"; "I am pining for my lover" [syn: ache, yearn, yen, pine, languish].
PINE, () Program for Internet News and Email / PINE Is No longer ELM
Pine, () Program for Internet News & Email. A tool for reading, sending, and managing electronic messages. It was designed specifically with novice computer users in mind, but can be tailored to accommodate the needs of "power users" as well.
Pine uses Internet message protocols (e.g. RFC 822, SMTP, MIME, IMAP, NNTP) and runs under Unix and MS-DOS.
The guiding principles for Pine's user-interface were: careful limitation of features, one-character mnemonic commands, always-present command menus, immediate user feedback, and high tolerance for user mistakes. It is intended that Pine can be learned by exploration rather than reading manuals.
Feedback from the University of Washington community and a growing number of Internet sites has been encouraging.
Pine's message composition editor, Pico, is also available as a separate stand-alone program. Pico is a very simple and easy-to-use text editor offering paragraph justification, cut/ paste, and a spelling checker.
Pine features on-line help; a message index showing a message summary which includes the status, sender, size, date and subject of messages; commands to view and process messages; a message composer with easy-to-use editor and spelling checker; an address book for saving long complex addresses and personal distribution lists under a nickname; message attachments via Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions; folder management commands for creating, deleting, listing, or renaming message folders; access to remote message folders and archives via the Interactive Mail Access Protocol as defined in RFC 1176; access to Usenet news via NNTP or IMAP. Pine, Pico and UW's IMAP server are copyrighted but freely available.
Unix Pine runs on Ultrix, AIX, SunOS, SVR4 and PTX. PC-Pine is available for Packet Driver, Novell LWP, FTP PC/TCP and Sun PC/NFS. A Microsoft Windows/{WinSock} version is planned, as are extensions for off-line use.
Pine was originally based on Elm but has evolved much since ("Pine Is No-longer Elm"). Pine is the work of Mike Seibel, Mark Crispin, Steve Hubert, Sheryl Erez, David Miller and Laurence Lundblade (now at Virginia Tech) at the University of Washington Office of Computing and Communications.
(21 Sep 93)
Pine -- U.S. County in Minnesota
Population (2000): 26530
Housing Units (2000): 15353
Land area (2000): 1411.043006 sq. miles (3654.584453 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 23.522132 sq. miles (60.922040 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1434.565138 sq. miles (3715.506493 sq. km)
Located within: Minnesota (MN), FIPS 27
Location: 46.098412 N, 92.834830 W
Headwords:
Pine
Pine, MN
Pine County
Pine County, MN
Pine, AZ -- U.S. Census Designated Place in Arizona
Population (2000): 1931
Housing Units (2000): 2242
Land area (2000): 31.767043 sq. miles (82.276259 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 31.767043 sq. miles (82.276259 sq. km)
FIPS code: 55700
Located within: Arizona (AZ), FIPS 04
Location: 34.385067 N, 111.457709 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Pine, AZ
Pine
Pineal (a.) Of or pertaining to a pine cone; resembling a pine cone.
Pineal gland (Anat.), A glandlike body in the roof of the third ventricle of the vertebrate brain; -- called also pineal body, epiphysis, conarium. In some animals it is connected with a rudimentary eye, the so-called pineal eye, and in other animals it is supposed to be the remnant of a dorsal median eye.
Pineal (a.) Relating to the pineal body; "pineal hormone."
Pineal (a.) Having the form of a pine cone.
Compare: Fragmentation grenade
Fragmentation grenade (n.) (Mil.) A type of hand grenade designed to burst into multiple fragments upon detonation of the explosive charge; the fragments fly away at high velocity, killing or wounding persons nearby. Contrasted to concussion grenade. The common type of fragmentation grenade used by the American military was sometimes jocosely referred to as a pineapple from its reticulated surface appearance, resembling that of the fruit.
Pineapple (n.) (Bot.) 鳳梨，菠蘿 [C] [U]；【俚】炸彈；手榴彈 [C] A tropical plant ({Ananassa sativa); also, its fruit; -- so called from the resemblance of the latter, in shape and external appearance, to the cone of the pine tree. Its origin is unknown, though conjectured to be American.
Pineapple (n.) A tropical American plant bearing a large fleshy edible fruit with a terminal tuft of stiff leaves; widely cultivated in the tropics [syn: pineapple, pineapple plant, Ananas comosus].
Pineapple (n.) Large sweet fleshy tropical fruit with a terminal tuft of stiff leaves; widely cultivated [syn: pineapple, ananas].
Pineapple (n.) A large juicy tropical fruit consisting of aromatic edible yellow flesh surrounded by a tough segmented skin and topped with a tuft of stiff leaves.
‘Roughly chop the pineapples and apricots.’
Pineapple (n.) The widely cultivated tropical American plant that bears the pineapple. It is low-growing, with a spiral of spiny sword-shaped leaves on a thick stem.
Ananas comosus, family Bromeliaceae
‘Atrazine is mainly applied to corn and soybean crops, but is also used on sorghum, sugarcane, pineapple, turf grass, and Christmas tree farms.’
Pineapple (n.) (Informal) A hand grenade.
Pineaster (n.) See Pinaster. Pine-clad
Pine-clad (a.) Alt. of Pine-crowned.
Pine-crowned (a.) Clad or crowned with pine trees; as, pine-clad hills.
Pinedrops (n.) (Bot.) A reddish herb ({Pterospora andromedea) of the United States, found parasitic on the roots of pine trees.
Pinefinch (n.) (a) A small American bird ({Spinus spinus syn. Chrysomitris spinus); -- called also pine siskin, and American siskin.
Pinefinch (n.) The pine grosbeak.
Pinenchyma (n.) (Bot.) Tabular parenchyma, a form of cellular tissue in which the cells are broad and flat, as in some kinds of epidermis.
Pineries (n. pl. ) of Pinery.
Pinery (n.) 松林 A pine forest; a grove of pines.
Pinery (n.) 鳳梨園A hothouse in which pineapples are grown.
Pinesap (n.) (Bot.) [植] 鹿蹄草；水晶蘭 A reddish fleshy herb of the genus Monotropa ({Monotropa hypopitys), formerly thought to be parasitic on the roots of pine trees, but more probably saprophytic.
Pinesap (n.) Fleshy tawny or reddish saprophytic herb resembling the Indian pipe and growing in woodland humus of eastern North America; in some classifications placed in a separate genus Hypopitys [syn: pinesap, false beachdrops, Monotropa hypopithys].
Pinetum (n.) A plantation of pine trees; esp., a collection of living pine trees made for ornamental or scientific purposes.
Pinetum (n.) An area planted with pine trees or related conifers.
Pineweed (n.) (Bot.) A low, bushy, nearly leafless herb ({Hypericum Sarothra), common in sandy soil in the Eastern United States.
Pineweed (n.) Annual wiry-stemmed North American weed with minute scalelike leaves and small yellow flowers [syn: orange grass, nitweed, pineweed, pine-weed, Hypericum gentianoides].
Piney (a.) See Piny.
Piney (a.) A term used in designating an East Indian tree (the Vateria Indica or piney tree, of the order Dipterocarpeae, which grows in Malabar, etc.) or its products.
Piney
dammar, Piney
resin, Piney varnish, a pellucid, fragrant, acrid, bitter resin, which exudes
from the piney tree ({Vateria Indica) when wounded. It is used as a varnish, in
making candles, and as a substitute for incense and for amber. Called also
liquid copal, and white dammar.
Piney tallow, A solid fatty substance, resembling tallow, obtained from
the roasted seeds of the Vateria Indica; called also dupada oil.
Piney thistle (Bot.), A plant ({Atractylis gummifera"> Piney thistle (Bot.), A plant ({Atractylis gummifera), from the bark of which, when wounded, a gummy substance exudes.
Compare: Piny
Piny (a.) Abounding with pines. [Written also piney.] "The piny wood." -- Longfellow.
Piney, AR -- U.S. Census Designated Place in Arkansas
Population (2000): 3988
Housing Units (2000): 1868
Land area (2000): 6.540906 sq. miles (16.940867 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.590261 sq. miles (1.528769 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 7.131167 sq. miles (18.469636 sq. km)
FIPS code: 55610
Located within: Arkansas (AR), FIPS 05
Location: 34.496999 N, 93.134068 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Piney, AR
Piney
Pin-eyed (a.) (Bot.) Having the stigma visible at the throad of a gamopetalous corolla, while the stamens are concealed in the tube; -- said of dimorphous flowers. The opposite of thrum-eyed.
Pinfeather (n.) A feather not fully developed; esp., a rudimentary feather just emerging through the skin.
Pinfeathered (a.) Having part, or all, of the feathers imperfectly developed.
Pinfish (n.) (Zool.) The sailor's choice ({Diplodus rhomboides syn. Lagodon rhomboides).
Pinfish (n.) (Zool.) The salt-water bream ({Diplodus Holbrooki).
Note: Both are excellent food fishes, common on the coast of the United States south of Cape Hatteras. The name is also applied to other allied species.
Pinfish (n.) Similar to sea bream; small spiny-finned fish found in bays along the southeastern coast of the United States [syn: pinfish, sailor's-choice, squirrelfish, Lagodon rhomboides].
Pinfold (n.) A place in which stray cattle or domestic animals are confined; a pound; a penfold. -- Shak.
A parish pinfold begirt by its high hedge. -- Sir W. Scott.
Pinfold (n.) A pen where stray animals are confined.
Ping (n.) The sound made by a bullet in striking a solid object or in passing through the air.
Pinged (imp. & p. p.) of Ping.
Pinging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Ping.