pignoration

[Lat. pigneratio, pignora tio, from pigneratus, pa. par. of pignero, pigneror = pawn.] (PIGNERATE.] 1. Ord. Lang.: The act of pawning, pledging, or mortgaging. 2. Civil Law : The taking of cattle doing damage as security till satisfaction is made. *pig-nor-ā-tive, a . [PIGNORATION.] Pledging, pawning. IMG:content-1066.png:[blocks in formation] pig-ot-ite, s. [After a Rev. M. Pigot; suff. -ite (Min.).] *pigs-ney, *pigs-nie, *pigges-nie, *piggesnye, *pygges-nie, *pys-ney, s. [For pig's eye: a nye an eye. See remarks under N.] IMG:content-1067.png:[blocks in formation] 3. A kind of tobacco prepared in long ropes or twists. "The tobacco he usually cheweth, called pigtail . " Swift : Will . Pigtail and periwig style: Architect.: A ludicrous or contemptuous epithet applied to the later Rococo style prevailing in England from about the beginning of the seventeenth century till nearly its close. "And a certain affinity between the architecture of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and a method of dre ing the hair which then prevailed, has led to the expre ion pigtail and periwig style being employed to describe the period under consideration." -Baumgarten: Architectural Styles , p. 442. (Trans.) pig-tailed, adj. [Eng. pigtail: -ed.] Having a pigtail (q. v.), or anything resembling it. pigtailed-baboon, s. [CHACMA.]