pigeon hearted

Timid, easily frightened. pignorative pig-me-an, a. [PYGMEAN.] pig-ment, s. [Lat. pig mentum, from pig-, root of pingo to paint; Fr. pigment.] I. Ordinary Language : 1. In the same sense as II. 1. *2. A kind of highly-spiced wine, sweetened with honey. ( Scott : Ivanhoe, ch. iii.) II. Technically : 1. Arts & Manuf .: One of the coloring materials used in painting, dyeing, . They are partly artificial and partly derived from the three kingdoms of nature. Flet.: Pilgrim, iii. 5. pigeon-hole, *pig in-hole, s. 1. One of the holes in a dovecot, by which the pigeons pa in or out. 2. A little division or compartment in a desk for papers. *3. ( Pl .): An old game in which balls were rolled through little arches, resembling the holes in a dovecot. "Ox roasted whole, horse-racing, pig in -holes." Ballads on Frost Fair (1684), p. 29. pigeon-hole, v . t . To place or deposit in a pigeon"We see the old bureaucrat pigeon - holing letters."_ hole. IMG:content-1062.png:[blocks in formation] "It is only his third appearance in the pig - skin this season."- Field , Dec. 19, 1885.