ping (ping)

[ The ping of the rifle bullet or crack of the shot gun have charms that never tire. W. W. Greener, The Gun, p. 479. pinglelt (ping'gl), n. [Perhaps a var. of pightle , pickle3 .] A small piece of inclosed ground. The academy, a little pingle , or plot of ground,... was the habitation of Plato, Xenocrates, and Polemon. North , tr. of Plutarch, p. 226. ( Latham .) pingle2 (ping'gl), v . i.; pret. and pp. pingled , ppr. pingling . [Orig. obscure.] To eat with little appetite. [Prov. Eng.] pingler (ping'gler), n . [Prob. pingle1 + -er1 .] A cart-horse; a work-horse. Perverslie doe they alwaies thinke of their lovers, and talke of them scornefullie, judging all to bee clownes which be not courtiers, and all to be pinglers that be not coursers. Lyly , Euphues, Anat. of Wit, p. 109. pin-eyed (pin'id), a . Having the capitate stig- ma at the throat of the corolla, the stamens standing lower: noting, for instance, the long- styled form of the cowslip, Primula ver is , and contrasted with thrum - eyed , applied to the short- One who eats with little appetite. styled form, in which the anthers are above.