3. To disable or restrain, as a person, by binding the arms, esp. by
binding the arms to the body. Shak.
Her elbows pinioned close upon her hips.
Cowper.
4. Hence, generally, to confine; to bind; to tie up. "Pinioned up by
formal rules of state." Norris.
Pin"ioned (?), a. Having wings or pinions.
Pin"ion*ist, n. (Zoˆl.) Any winged creature.
Pin"ite (?), n. [So called from Pini, a mine in Saxony.] (Min.) A
compact granular cryptocrystalline mineral of a dull grayish or
greenish white color. It is a hydrous alkaline silicate, and is derived
from the alteration of other minerals, as iolite.
Pi"nite (?), n. [L. pinus the pine tree.] 1. (Paleon.) Any fossil wood
which exhibits traces of having belonged to the Pine family.
2. (Chem.) A sweet white crystalline substance extracted from the gum
of a species of pine (Pinus Lambertina). It is isomeric with, and
resembles, quercite.
Pink (?), n. [D. pink.] (Naut.) A vessel with a very narrow stern; --
called also pinky. Sir W. Scott.
Pink stern (Naut.), a narrow stern.
Pink, v. i. [D. pinken, pinkoogen, to blink, twinkle with the eyes.] To
wink; to blink. [Obs.] L'Estrange.
Pink, a. Half-shut; winking. [Obs.] Shak.
Pink, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Pinked (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Pinking.] [OE.
pinken to prick, probably a nasalized form of pick.] 1. To pierce with
small holes; to cut the edge of, as cloth or paper, in small scallops
or angles.