pink1 (pingk)

[ this. We cut not out our clothes, sir, At half-sword, as your tailors do, and pink 'em With pikes and partizans. Fletcher , Mad Lover, i. 1. I will pink your flesh full of holes with my rapier for B. Jonson, Every Man in his Humour, iv. 1. "Lovel," said Mr. Coverley, affecting to whisper, "you must certainly pink him; you must not put up with such Mme . D'Arblay , Evelina, lxxxiii. Know, sir, that I Will not wait pinion'd at your master's court. Shak ., A. and C., v. 2. 53. Away with him! I'll follow you. Look you pinion him, and take his money from him, lest he swallow a shilling and kill himself. Beau . and Fl ., Woman-Hater, v. 1. Chapman , Iliad, xxi. All their hands he pinnioned behinde With their owne girdles. 3. To bind; attach as by bonds or shackles. Some slave of mine be pinion'd to their side. Pope , Dunciad, iv. 134. pinion (pin'yon), n . [Formerly also pinnion ; pignon , a small wheel, pinion, spur-nut, = 2t. To decorate with punctures or holes; tattoo. Men and women pinke their bodies, putting thereon grease mixed with colour. Purchas, Pilgrimage, p. 648. The sea-hedge-hogge is enclosed in a round shell, handsomely wrought and pincked. R. Carew , Survey of Cornwall, p. 32. Your Wife, If once well pink'd , is cloth'd for Life. He found thee savage, and he left thee tame; Taught thee to clothe thy pink'd and painted hide, And grace thy figure with a soldier's pride. 2. One of various plants of other genera, with some resemblance to the true pinks. See Lych nis, 2, mo - pink, and phrases below.-3. A red color of low chroma but high luminosity, inclining toward purple.-4. In painting, any one of several lakes of a yellow or greenish yellow color, prepared by precipitating vegetable juices on a white base, such as chalk or alumina.-5. A red coat or badge, or a person wearing one; specifically, a scarlet hunting coat. With pea-coats over their pinks . Mac mill an's Mag ., I. 16. The pinks stand about the inn-door lighting cigars and waiting to see us start, while their hacks are led up and down the market-place on which the inn looks. T. Hughes, Tom Brown at Rugby, i. 4. 6. A small fish, so called from its color. (a) A minnow. And full well may you think, If you troll with a pink , One [a fishing-rod] too weak will be apt to miscarry. Cotton, Angler's Ballad. The Trout is usually caught with a worm, or a minnow, which some call a penk , or with a fly. I. Walton , Complete Angler, p. 90. (b) A young grayling. (c) A young salmon before its entry into the sea. See cut under parr. Presently the alevin grows into the fry, or pink , which is an absurd little fish about an inch long, goggle-eyed, and with dark bars on its sides. St. Nicholas , XIII. 740. 7. A flower; in a figurative use, a beauty; hence, the flower or highest type or example of excellence in some particular; a supremely excellent or choice example or type of excellence: as, the pink of perfection. I am the very pink of courtesy. Shak., R. and J., ii. 4. 61. He had a pretty pincke to his own wedded wife. Breton , Merry Wonders, p. 7. ( Davies .) This is the prettiest pilgrim, The pink of pilgrims! Fletcher , Pilgrim, i. 2. I am happy to have oblig'd the Mirrour of Knighthood and Pink of Courtesie in the Age. Congreve, Old Batchelor, ii. 1. Brown pink. See brown.- Carolina pink. See pink- root, 1. - Car thus i ans' pink, Dianthus Car thus i a no rum , a somewhat cultivated European species with a dense clus- ter of small flowers, usually dark-purple or crimson.- Cheddar pink, a pretty dwarf species, Dianthus cæsius, found at Cheddar in England. - Cushion-pink. Same as mo - pink . Deptford pink, a European species, Dian thus Armeria , with small flowers, pink dotted with white, adventive in the eastern United States. - Dutch pink. (a) A yellow lake prepared from quercitron bark. It differs from Italian pink in not having as much coloring matter, and in being usually precipitated on a chalk base instead of alumina. It is, in effect, an inferior quality of Italian pink. (b) Blood. [Slang.] That'll take the bark from your nozzle, and distil the Dutch pink for you, won't it? Cuthbert Bede, Mr. Verdant Green, II. 31. Prior , Alma, ii. Fire-pink, Silene Virginica , a plant with brilliant scarlet flowers, native in the interior United States, sometimes cultivated.-Glacier pink, a species of the Alps and Pyrenees, Dianthus neglect us , growing in low tufts whence spring many brilliant flowers. - Gra -pink, an orchid, Calopogon pulchellus , common in North American bogs. It has a slender stem with a single gra -like leaf at the base, and a short raceme of beautiful pink-purple flowers. Indian pink. (a) See Dianthus . (b) Sometimes same as pinkroot , 1 (United States), and cypre - vine (West Indies). - Italian pink, a yellow lake prepared from quercit Cowper , Expostulation, 1. 486. Specifically-3. To decorate, as any garment or article made of textile fabric or leather, by cutting small holes of regular shape in succe ion, scallops, loops, etc., at the edge, or else IMG:content-0223.jpg:[blocks in formation] Them that were pink - eyed , and had verie small eies, they termed ocellæ. Holland, tr. of Pliny, xi. 37. pinkiel, pinkie2, etc. See pinky . pinkine (ping'ki-nes), n. Pink hue; the pale ron bark.-Mullen-pink. See Lychnis , 2.-Old-maid's pink, the common soapwort or bouncing-bet. - Pheas- ant's-eye pink. See def. 1, above. - Rose pink, an in- tion of Brazil wood on to a chalk base. Sea-pink, a species of thrift in Europe, Armeria vulgar is ( A. mar i- red color of the pink. tim a ). Mr. Bult. had the general solidity and suffusive II. a. Of the color or hue called pink. Pink pinkine of a healthy Briton on the central table-land of life. George Eliot , Daniel Deronda, xxii. pink3 (pingk), v. i. [ pincken , D. pinken , shut the eyes, wink, twinkle; cf. MD. pinck oogen, wink; origin obscure. Cf. pink -eye2.] To wink; peep slyly. Though his iye on us therat pleasant lie pinke , Yet will he thinke that we saie not as we thinke. J. Heywood, Spider and Fly (1556). ( Nares .) A hungry fox lay winking and pinking as if he had sore Sir R. L'Estrange. eyes. I'll be with ye as soon as daylight begins to pink in. Thomas Hardy , Distracted Preacher, vi. pink4+ (pingk), n. [ pinck , D. pink = MLG. LG. pinke (G. pinke ); cf. F. pinque Sp.pinco, pinque = Pg. pinque , from the D. or LG.; appar. the same, with lo of the initial syllable, as MD. espinck = Icel. espingr = Sw.esping , a long boat, espe = Icel. espi , asp, aspen-tree: see asp1 .] A ve el or boat with a very narrow stern. Now called pinky . Thus by diuiding their squadrons, and spreading the whole sea ouer a mighty way, there could not so much as the least pinke pa e but she was espied. Hakluyt's Voyages , I. 610. From most parts of Holland or Zealand, pinks or ship ping may be had at the brew houses in Saint Katherine's. John Taylor (Arber's Eng. Garner, I. 245). A Dutch pink arrived, which had been to the southward a trading. pink5 (pingk), n. Winthrop, Hist. New England, I. 124. [Imitative; cf. spink and finch, and also pinc-pinc. Hence dim. pinkety.] A finch; the chaffinch or spink, Fringilla cœlebs. pink6t, n. [Origin obscure.] A game at cards: the same as post2, 11. Collier's Hist. Dram. Poet., ii. 315. ( Hall i well.) pink cheek (pingk'chēk), n. An Australian fish, Up ene ichthys porosus. [New South Wales.] pinked (pingkt), p. a. Pierced or worked with small holes, sometimes showing a lining of another color; reticulated; scalloped. A haberdasher's wife of small wit railed upon me, till her pinked porringer fell off her head. Shak., Hen. VIII., v. 4. 50. The Court is all full of vests, only my Lord St. Albans not pinked, but plain black; and they say the King says the pinking upon white makes them look too much like magpies. Pepys , Diary, II. 475. Letters, long proofs of love, and verses fine Round the pink'd rims of crisped Valentine. Crabbe, Works, I. 111. pinkeen (ping'kēn), n. [ pincin .] The stickleback. [South of Ireland.]