pinnageł (pinaj)

[For * pindage, Pinnata (pi-nāʼtä), n. pl. [NL., or Baker , Chronicles, p. 9. This yeere Master Stickles, the exellent Architect of our time, did, onely to try conclusion, build a pinnace in Leaden hall, being of burden about fiue or sixe tun, which at pleasure might bee taken asunder and ioyned together. Stow , Elizabeth, an. 1595. There came from Virginia into Salem a pinnace of eighteen tons, laden with corn and tobacco. Winthrop, Hist. New England, I. 67. Swift as a swallow sweeps the liquid way, The winged pinnace shot along the sea. Pope . ( b ) A large double-banked ship's boat.- 2t. A procure ; a prostitute. [Old slang.] For when all the gallants are gone out o' th' town, O then these fine pinaces lack their due lading. Songs of the London Prentices , p. 66. ( Hall i well .) She hath been before me-punk, pinnace , and bawd- any time these two and twenty years, upon record in the Pie-Poudres. B. Jonson , Bartholomew Fair, i. 1. pinnacle (pinʼa-kl), n. [Early mod. E. also pin acle; Pg. pinaculo = It. pinacolo, pinnacolo, or peak; the very topmost point, as of a mountain. He then led me to the highest pinnacle of the rock, and placed me on the top of it. Add is on , Vision of Mirza. Far off, three mountain-tops, Three silent pinnacles of aged snow, Stood sunset-flush'd. Tennyson , Lotos-Eaters. 2. In arch ., any relatively small structure (of whatever form, but commonly terminating in a cone or a pyramid) that rises above the roof or coping of a building, or caps a projecting architectural member, such as a buttre . Its constructive object is to give great Pinnacle of Buttre , York Minster, England. er weight to the member which it crowns, in order that this may better resist some lateral pre ure. The application of the term is generally limited to an ornamental spire-shaped structure, standing on parapets, angles, and buttre es, and often adorned with rich and varied devices. Pinnacles are very numerous in the fully developed medieval style; their shafts are sometimes formed into niches, and are sometimes paneled or quite plain; in examples of late date, every one of the sides generally terminates in a gablet. The tops are often crocketed, and have finials at the apex. Pinnacles are most often square in plan, but are sometimes octagonal, hexagonal, or pentagonal. See also cut under crocket . Mony pynakle payntet watz poudred ay quere, Among the castel carnelez, clambred so thik, That pared out of papure purely hit semed. Sir Gawayne and the Green Knight (E. E. T. S.), 1. 801. Some renown'd metropolis, With glistering spires and pinnacles adorn'd. Milton , P. L., iii. 550. pinnacle (pin'ā-kl), v. t.; pret. and pp. pin nacled, ppr. pinnacling. [ A pyzt coroune get wer that gyrle, Of mariorys & non other ston, Hize pynakled of cler quyt perle, Wyth flurted flowrez perfet vpon. Alliterative Poems (ed. Morris), i. 207. The pediment of the southern transept is pinnacled , not inelegantly, with a flourished cro . T. Warton, Hist. Kidding ton, p. 8. 2. To place on or as on a pinnacle. The loftiest star of unascended heaven, Pinnacled dim in the intense inane. Shelley, Pro me the us Unbound, iii. 4. pinnacle-work (pin'ā-kl-wėrk), n. In arch . and decoration, ornamental projections, especially at the top of any object; fleurons, knops, finials, and the like, taken collectively. pinnadiform (pi-nad'i-fôrm), a . [Irreg. pin na1 + -ad- + form .] In ichth ., having the apparent form modified by an extension or encroachment of the skin and scales on the fins or some of them, as the dorsal and anal, as in the chæto dont ids. Gill.