Pinch"er (?), n. One who, or that which, pinches.
Pinch"ers (?), n. pl. [From Pinch.] An instrument having two handles
and two grasping jaws working on a pivot; -- used for griping things to
be held fast, drawing nails, etc.
This spelling is preferable to pincers, both on account of its
derivation from the English pinch, and because it represents the common
pronunciation.
Pinch"fist` (?), n. A closefisted person; a miser.
Pinch"ing, a. Compressing; nipping; griping; niggardly; as, pinching
cold; a pinching parsimony.
Pinching bar, a pinch bar. See Pinch, n., 4. -- Pinching nut, a check
nut. See under Check, n.
Pinch"ing*ly, adv. In a pinching way.
Pinch"pen`ny (?), n. A miserly person.
Pin"coff*in (?), n. [From Pincoff, an English manufacturer.] A
commercial preparation of garancin, yielding fine violet tints.
Pinc"pinc` (?), n. [Named from its note.] (Zoˆl.) An African wren
warbler. (Drymoica textrix).
Pin"cush`ion (?), n. A small cushion, in which pins may be stuck for
use.
{ Pin"dal (?), Pin"dar (?), } n. [D. piendel.] (Bot.) The peanut
(Arachis hypogÊa); -- so called in the West Indies.
Pin*dar"ic (?), a. [L. Pindaricus, Gr. &?;, fr. &?; (L. Pindarus)
Pindar: cf. F. pindarique.] Of or pertaining to Pindar, the Greek lyric
poet; after the style and manner of Pindar; as, Pindaric odes. -- n. A
Pindaric ode.
Pin*dar"ic*al (?), a. Pindaric.
Too extravagant and Pindarical for prose.
Cowley.
Pin"dar*ism (?), n. Imitation of Pindar.
Pin"dar*ist, n. One who imitates Pindar.
Pin"der (?), n. [AS. pyndan to pen up, fr. pund a pound.] One who
impounds; a poundkeeper. [Obs.]
Pine (?), n. [AS. pn, L. poena penalty. See Pain.] Woe; torment; pain.
[Obs.] "Pyne of hell." Chaucer.
Pine, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Pined (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Pining.] [AS. pnan
to torment, fr. pn torment. See 1st Pine, Pain, n. & v.] 1. To inflict
pain upon; to torment; to torture; to afflict. [Obs.] Chaucer. Shak.
That people that pyned him to death.
Piers Plowman.
One is pined in prison, another tortured on the rack.
Bp. Hall.