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A measure of capacity, containing one fourth of a pint.

den shaft or axle, on which it turns; formerly, any journal, or pivot, or bearing, as the pintle and eye of a hinge, but esp. the end journal of a horizontal.

A Hebrew measure of liquids, containing three quarts, one pint, one gill, English measure. W. H. Ward.

aining, as a liquid measure, ten baths, equivalent to fifty-five gallons, two quarts, one pint; and, as a dry measure, ten ephahs, equivalent to six bushels, two pecks, four quarts. [Written also chomer, gomer.]

A drinking measure holding half a pint; also, one holding a quarter of a pint. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

ds. Liquid measure, a measure, or system of measuring, for liquids, by the gallon, quart, pint, gill, etc.

e metric system, being a cubic decimeter, equal to 61.022 cubic inches, or 2.113 American pints, or 1.76 English pints.

A liquid measure equal to four gills, or an imperial pint. [Scot.]

chiefly inhabit the southern hemisphere. -- Fulmar petrel, Giant petrel. See Fulmar. -- Pintado petrel, the Cape pigeon. See under Cape. -- Pintado petrel, any one of several small petrels, especially Procellaria pelagica, or Mother Carey's chicken, common on both sides of the Atlantic.

See Pintail, 1.

A liquid measure of four pints.

in dry and in liquid measure; the fourth part of a gallon; the eighth part of a peck; two pints.

A quarter. Specifically: (a) The fourth part of a pint; a gill.

The pintail duck.

The cuckoopint.

ed genera, in which the hind toe is destitute of a membranous lobe, as in the mallard and pintail; -- opposed to sea duck. -- River god, a deity supposed to preside over a river as its tutelary divinity. -- River herring (Zoöl.), an alewife. -- River hog. (Zoöl.) (a) Any species of African wild hogs of the genus Pot…

a integrifolia, atc.). Portland sago, a kind of sago prepared from the corms of the cuckoopint (Arum maculatum). -- Sago palm. (Bot.) (a) A palm tree which yields sago. (b) A species of Cycas (Cycas revoluta). -- Sago spleen (Med.), a morbid condition of the spleen, produced by amyloid degeneration of the organ, in w…

by digging or excavation. Those carbuncles the Indians will scoop, so as to hold above a pint. Arbuthnot.

The pintail duck.

The pintail duck.