pingler2 (pinggler)

[ He filleth his mouth well, and is no pingler at his meat. Top sell, Beastes (1607). ( Hall i well.) pin-gra (pin'grås), п. The stork's-bill. See Florists who cultivate the Polyanthus and Auricula have long been aware of the two kinds of flowers, and they call the plants which display the globular stigma at the mouth alfilerilla . of the corolla "pin-headed" or " pin -eyed." Darwin, Different Forms of Flowers, p. 14. pin-feather (pin'feтн"èr), n. See feather . pin-feathered (pin'fern"erd), a. Covered with pin-feathers; not fully fledged: said of young birds acquiring their first plumage after the downy state, and of old birds renewing their plumage during the molt: sometimes used figuratively. Hourly we see some raw pinfeather'd thing Attempt to mount, and fights and heroes sing, Who for false quantities was whipt at school. Dryden, tr. of Persius's Satires, i.