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Whitsuntide. [Written also pingster and pinxter.] Pinkster flower (Bot.), the rosy flower of the Azalea nudiflora; also, the shrub itself; -- called also Pinxter blomachee by the New York descendants of the Dutch settlers.

See 1st Pink.

A leaflet of a pinnate leaf. See Illust. of Bipinnate leaf, under Bipinnate.

A man-of-war's boat. Whilst our pinnace anchors in the Downs. Shak.

An architectural member, upright, and generally ending in a small spire, -- used to finish a buttress, to constitute a part in a proportion, as where pinnacles flank a gable or spire, and the like. Pinnacles may be considered primarily as added weight, where it is necessary to resist the thrust of an arch, etc. Some re…

Poundage of cattle. See Pound. [Obs.]

side of a common petiole, as the leaves of a rosebush, a hickory, or an ash. See Abruptly pinnate, and Illust., under Abruptly.

In a pinnate manner.

Divided in a pinnate manner, with the divisions not reaching to the midrib.

Having lobes arranged in a pinnate manner.

Having the toes bordered by membranes; fin-footed, as certain birds.

One who, or that which, pins or fastens, as with pins.

A pinnacle. [R.] Sir W. Scott.

Shaped like a fin or feather. Sir J. Hill.

Same as Pinnipedia.

An animal of the seal tribe, moving by short feet that serve as paddles.

One of the Pinnipedia; a seal.

Same as Steganopodes.

A suborder of aquatic carnivorous mammals including the seals and walruses; -- opposed to Fissipedia.

The hedge sparrow. [Prov. Eng.]