Pine"sap` (?), n. (Bot.) A reddish fleshy herb of the genus Monotropa
(M. hypopitys), formerly thought to be parasitic on the roots of pine
trees, but more probably saprophytic.
||Pi*ne"tum (?), n. [L., a pine grove.] A plantation of pine trees;
||esp., a collection of living pine trees made for ornamental or
||scientific purposes.
Pine"weed` (?), n. (Bot.) A low, bushy, nearly leafless herb (Hypericum
Sarothra), common in sandy soil in the Eastern United States.
Pin"ey (?), a. See Piny.
Pin"ey, a. [Of East Indian origin.] A term used in designating an East
Indian tree (the Vateria Indica or piney tree, of the order
DipterocarpeÊ, which grows in Malabar, etc.) or its products.
Piney dammar, Piney resin, Piney varnish, a pellucid, fragrant, acrid,
bitter resin, which exudes from the piney tree (Vateria Indica) when
wounded. It is used as a varnish, in making candles, and as a
substitute for incense and for amber. Called also liquid copal, and
white dammar. -- Piney tallow, a solid fatty substance, resembling
tallow, obtained from the roasted seeds of the Vateria Indica; called
also dupada oil. -- Piney thistle (Bot.), a plant (Atractylis
gummifera), from the bark of which, when wounded, a gummy substance
exudes.
Pin"-eyed` (?), a. (Bot.) Having the stigma visible at the throad of a
gamopetalous corolla, while the stamens are concealed in the tube; --
said of dimorphous flowers. The opposite of thrum-eyed.
Pin"feath`er (?), n. A feather not fully developed; esp., a rudimentary
feather just emerging through the skin.
Pin"feath`ered (?), a. Having part, or all, of the feathers imperfectly
developed.
Pin"fish` (?), n. [So called from their sharp dorsal spines.] (Zoˆl.)
(a) The sailor's choice (Diplodus, or Lagodon, rhomboides). (b) The
salt-water bream (Diplodus Holbrooki).
Both are excellent food fishes, common on the coast of the United
States south of Cape Hatteras. The name is also applied to other allied
species.
Pin"fold` (?), n. [For pindfold. See Pinder, Pound an inclosure, and
Fold an inclosure.] A place in which stray cattle or domestic animals
are confined; a pound; a penfold. Shak.
A parish pinfold begirt by its high hedge.
Sir W. Scott.
Ping (?), n. [Probably of imitative origin.] The sound made by a bullet
in striking a solid object or in passing through the air.
Ping, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Pinged (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Pinging.] To make
the sound called ping.
Pin"gle (?), n. [Perhaps fr. pin to impound.] A small piece of inclosed
ground. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]
Ping"ster (?), n. See Pinkster.
Pin*guic"u*la (?), n. [NL., fr. L. pinguiculus somewhat fat, fattish.]
(Bot.) See Butterwort.
Pin"guid (?), a. [L. pinguis fat.] Fat; unctuous; greasy. [Obs.] "Some
clays are more pinguid." Mortimer.
Pin*guid"i*nous (?), a. [L. pinguedo fatness, fr. pinguis fat.]
Containing fat; fatty. [Obs.]
Pin"gui*tude (?), n. [L. pinguitudo, from pinguis fat.] Fatness; a
growing fat; obesity. [R.]
Pin"hold` (?), n. A place where a pin is fixed.
Pi"nic (&?;), a. [L. pinus pine.] (Chem.) Of or pertaining to the pine;
obtained from the pine; formerly, designating an acid which is the
chief constituent of common resin, -- now called abietic, or sylvic,
acid.
Pin"ing (?), a. 1. Languishing; drooping; wasting away, as with
longing.