5. (Tempering) A color, brown shaded with purple, coming between dark brown and light blue in the table of colors in drawing the temper of hardened steel.
Pig"skin`, n. A football; -- so called because the covering is often made of pigskin. [Colloq.]
Pil"low lace. Lace made by hand with bobbins on a pillow.
||Pi*lon" (?), n. [Sp., sugar loaf.] [Sp. Amer.] 1. A conical loaf of sugar.
2. A gratuity given by tradesmen to customers settling their accounts. [Southern U. S.]
||Pi*lon"ce (?), n. [Amer. Sp. See Piloncillo.] Same as Pilon. [Texas]
||Pi`lon*cil"lo (?), n. [Amer. Sp., dim. of pilon.] Same as Pilon. [Texas]
Pi"lot, n. 1. (Aëronautics) One who flies, or is qualified to fly, a balloon, an airship, or a flying machine.
2. (Mach.) A short plug at the end of a counterbore to guide the tool. Pilots are sometimes made interchangeable.
3. (Mining) The heading or excavation of relatively small dimensions, first made in the driving of a larger tunnel.
Pi"lot, v. t. (Aëronautics) To fly, or act as pilot of (an aircraft).
Pilot balloon. A small, unmanned balloon sent up to indicate the direction of air currents.
Pilot flag. The flag hoisted at the fore by a vessel desiring a pilot, in the United States the union jack, in Great Britain the British union jack with a white border.
{ Pilot lamp or light }. (Elec.) A small incandescent telltale lamp on a dynamo or battery circuit to show approximately by its brightness the voltage of the current.
Pilot valve. (Hydraulics) A small hand- operated valve to admit liquid to operate a valve difficult to turn by hand.
Pilot wheel. (Mach.) A wheel, usually with radial handles projecting from the rim, for traversing the saddle of a machine tool, esp. an automatic machine tool, by hand.
Pil"pul (?), n. [Aramaic pilpl; cf. Heb. pilpel to spice, to season, dispute violently.] Among the Jews, penetrating investigation, disputation, and drawing of conclusions, esp. in Talmudic study. -- Pil"pul*ist (#), n. -- Pil`pul*is"tic (#), a.
Pi*mien"to (?), n. [Sp.] The Spanish sweet pepper, the fruit of which is used as a vegetable, to stuff olives, etc.
Pim*o"la (?), n. An olive stuffed with a kind of sweet red pepper, or pimiento.
||Pi`ña (?), n. [Sp., orig., pineapple, pine cone.] 1. (a) The pineapple. (b) Piña cloth or the fiber of which it is made.
2. Also Pi"na (pron. also &?;). (Metal.) A cone of silver amalgam prepared for retorting; also, the residuary cone of spongy silver left after the retorting.
Pin`a*ca"te bug (?). [Orig. uncert.] Any of several clumsy, wingless beetles of the genus Eleodes, found in the Pacific States.
Pi`ña cloth (?). [See Piña.] A fine fabric for scarfs, handkerchiefs, embroidery, etc., woven from the fiber obtained from the leaf of the sterile pineapple plant. It is delicate, soft, and transparent, with a tinge of pale yellow.
Pinch, v. t. To seize by way of theft; to steal; also, to catch; to arrest. [Slang] Robert Barr.
Pine-tree State. Maine; -- a nickname alluding to the pine tree in its coat of arms.
Pin"-fire` (?), a. (Mil.) Having a firing pin to explode the cartridge; as, a pin- fire rifle.
Ping"-pong` (?), n. [Imitative.] 1. An indoor modification of lawn tennis played with small bats, or battledores, and a very light, hollow, celluloid ball, on a large table divided across the middle by a net.