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The European blue titmouse. [Prov. Eng.]

One who, or that which, pinches.

An instrument having two handles and two grasping jaws working on a pivot; -- used for griping things to be held fast, drawing nails, etc.

A closefisted person; a miser.

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.

In a pinching way.

A miserly person.

A commercial preparation of garancin, yielding fine violet tints.

An African wren warbler. (Drymoica textrix).

A small cushion, in which pins may be stuck for use.

The peanut (Arachis hypogæa); -- so called in the West Indies.

Of or pertaining to Pindar, the Greek lyric poet; after the style and manner of Pindar; as, Pindaric odes. -- n.

Pindaric. Too extravagant and Pindarical for prose. Cowley.

Imitation of Pindar.

One who imitates Pindar.

One who impounds; a poundkeeper. [Obs.]

rment; 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.

Clad or crowned with pine trees; as, pine-clad hills.

Maine; -- a nickname alluding to the pine tree in its coat of arms.

Of or pertaining to a pine cone; resembling a pine cone. Pineal gland (Anat.), a glandlike body in the roof of the third ventricle of the vertebrate brain; -- called also pineal body, epiphysis, conarium. In some animals it is connected with a rudimentary eye, the so-called pineal eye, and in other animals it is suppos…