pimelodus

[Gr. pimelādēs =fatty: pimelē =fat, and eidos =likene .J Ichthy.: A genus of Siluride (q.v.). Adipose fin well developed; dorsal and anal short; the former with pungent spine and six rays; barbels six; pal ate edentulous; ventrals six-rayed, inserted behind the dorsal. Forty species are known from South America, the majority of small size and plain coloration. Two species ( Pimelodus platychir and P. balayi ) are from West Africa. pi-ment, s. (Fr.) Wine with a mixture of spice and honey. [PIMENTO.] pi-men-tō, pi-men-ta, subst . [Sp. pimiento a pepper tree, pimienta =pepper; O. Fr. piument , pi ment drunkenne ; Lat. pig mentum .] [PIGMENT.] Allspice (q. v.). *pim-gen-ět, *pim-gin-It, s. [Etym. doubt gen it ing (q. v.).] A small red pimple; a pimple on the nose. ( Nares .) "From pimginits free Plump ladies red as Saracen's head." Newest Acad. of Compliments. pimp, s . [Prob. from Fr. pimpée , pa. par. of pimper to make spruce or fine. One who provides gratifications for the lust of others; a procurer, a panderer. *pimp-tenure, s . Old Eng. Law : Tenure existing in the time of Edward 1., by which the tenant kept six damsels for the use of the lord. pimp, v. i. [PIMP, 8.] To provide gratifications for the lust of others; to pander. "The careful Devil is still at hand with means, And providently pimps for ill desires." Dryden: Absalom and Achitophel . pim-për-něl, *pym-per-nel, s . [O. Fr. pimper nelle, pimpinelle (Fr. pimprenelle ), a corrupt. of Lat. bipinella = bipennula , a dim in. from bipennis two-winged: bis twice, and penna =a wing; Sp. pimpinela ; Ital. pimp in ell a .] Bot.: The genus A nag all is (q. v.). Yellow pimpernel is Lysimachia nemorum. [BASTARD, B. II.] pim'-pi-něl, 8. [PIMP IN ELL A.] Bot .: Pimp in ell a saxifraga . pim-pi-něl-la, s. [Ital.] [PIMPERNEL.] Bot.: Burnet-saxifrage; a genus of Umbelliferae, family Amminide ( Lindley ), Amminese ( Sir J. Hooker ). Umbels compound, bracts none, bracteoles few. Petals deeply notched, the point long, inflexed; ridges of the fruit slender; vittæ several, long. Known species seventy, chiefly from the North Temperate Zone. IMG:content-1089.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-1090.png:[blocks in formation] "Pins were made by hand of metal in the sixteenth century. Before that time small skewers of ivory or wood were used, just as the negroes in the country districts of the South use the long thorns of the haw-tree to-day. Many packages of pins may be bought now for the amount asked for a single pin in those days; yet each one of these little articles so cheap that the least coin in any civilized country is large enough to buy many of them requires very expensive machinery and the attention of several men and women to make it. The proce of making the wire from which the pins are manufactured is of itself slow and complex, but it is not considered in pin making, because the wire is made by one manufacturer and sold by him to another, who makes the pins. This wire comes in coils of great length, and is just the size of the body of the pin. It is first drawn between six or eight little rollers, to pre all the bends and kinks out of it. The machine which does this also winds the wire carefully on a large reel; and this reel is placed on a spindle attached to the machine which makes the pins IMG:content-1091.jpg:[graphic] manifest at or , parasitic on Chelostoma, a genus of When a reel is put on the spindle a workman inserts the bees akin to Xylocopa v.), is well known. Black free end of the wire between two steel rollers, which body with red legs, the former is thirteen lines long, ending in an ovipositor seventeen lines long. it continues to feed itself. As the wire leaves the rollers