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In a mincing manner; not fully; with affected nicety.

To cause to have a wrong inclination or tendency; to affect wrongly.

A fool; a silly or stupid person. [Law] An old ninnyhammer, a dotard, a nincompoop, is the best language she can afford me. Addison.

Lack of coincidence.

Not coincident.

A print made by photozincography. -- Pho`to*zin`co*graph"ic, a.

, analogous to photolithography, for reproducing photographed impressions transferred to zinc plate.

Eyeglasses kept on the nose by a spring.

See Pinchers.

o seize; to grip; to bite; -- said of animals. [Obs.] He [the hound] pinched and pulled her down. Chapman.

An alloy of copper and zinc, resembling gold; a yellow metal, composed of about three ounces of zinc to a pound of copper. It is much used as an imitation of gold in the manufacture of cheap jewelry.

A clamp on a flexible pipe to regulate the flow of a fluid through the pipe.

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.