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An ancient Roman liquid and dry measure, about equal to an English pint.

The pintail duck.

The pintail duck.

f a different color from that of the rest of the surface. Speckled Indians (Ethnol.), the Pintos. -- Speckled trout. (Zoöl.) (a) The common American brook trout. See Trout. (b) The rainbow trout.

The pintail duck. [Local, U.S.]

The pintail duck. [Local, U.S.]

The pintail duck.

The pintail duck; -- called also sprig, and spreet-tail. [Local, U.S.]

The cuckoopint, the tubers of which yield a fine quality of starch.

A drinking cup of small size, holding about half a pint. [Prov.Eng.] Halliwell.

Any plant of the genus Arum, especially, in England, the cuckoopint (Arum maculatum).

The pintail. See Pintail, n., 1.

. -- Black widgeon, the European tufted duck. -- Gray widgeon. (a) The gadwall. (b) The pintail duck. -- Great headed widgeon, the poachard. -- Pied widgeon. (a) The poachard. (b) The goosander. Saw-billed widgeon, the merganser. -- Sea widgeon. See in the Vocabulary. -- Spear widgeon, the goosander. [Prov. Eng.]…

or which may be converted into fodder during the winter. -- Winter duck. (Zoöl.) (a) The pintail. (b) The old squaw. -- Winter egg (Zoöl.), an egg produced in the autumn by many invertebrates, and destined to survive the winter. Such eggs usually differ from the summer eggs in having a thicker shell, and often in bei…

, a piece of wood close fitted and sheathed with copper, in the throating or score of the pintle, to keep the rudder from rising. -- Wood louse (Zoöl.) (a) Any one of numerous species of terrestrial isopod Crustacea belonging to Oniscus, Armadillo, and related genera. See Sow bug, under Sow, and Pill bug, under Pill.…