Pingstert

and a. See Pinkster. Pinguecula (ping-gwek'ū-lä), n. Same as Pin guicula, 1. pinguefyt (ping'gwē-fi), v. t. [Also pinguify; The oyl or ointment wherewith women use to anoint the hair of their head hath a certain property in it to pinguify Holland, tr. of Plutarch, p. 944. with all. There are they who take pleasure in the incence, fumes, and nidours of sacrifices; wherewith their corporeal and spirituous part is as it were pinguified . Cudworth , Intellectual System, p. 810. 1 so named by Gesner, 1541, with ref. to the popular name butterwort ), regions, and in the Andes to antarctic climates. They are stemle herbs of moist places, with a rosette of radical leaves, and erect leafle scapes bearing a single purple, violet, yellow, or whitish flower. The broad entire leaves have a peculiar surface as of little crystalline drops. The irritation of foreign bodies causes the leaf-margins to roll inward, imprisoning insects caught upon the sticky surface, and a isting in the absorption of their softer parts. Compare Utricularia, a related insectivorous plant. Six species occur in North America, mostly either high northern or near the southern coast, of which latter P. lutea is the yellow butterwort, a showy plant of the pine-barrens. See butterwort (with cut) and earning - gra . Also Pinguecula. 2. [ l. c.] A plant of this genus.-3. [ l. c.] A small painle tumor of the conjunctiva, usually situated close to the edge of the cornea. Also called inter palpebral blotch. pinguid (ping'gwid), a. [With unorig. term. -id (appar. in imitation of liquid, etc.); = Sp. Pg. It. pingue, IMG:content-0216.jpg:[graphic] IMG:content-0217.png:[graphic] IMG:content-0218.jpg:[blocks in formation] A pinguid turgid stile, as Tully calls the Asiatic Rhetoric. A. Tucker , Light of Nature, II. iii. 29.