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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.]

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…

from the resemblance of the latter, in shape and external appearance, to the cone of the pine tree. Its origin is unknown, though conjectured to be American.