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To make the sound called ping.

To play ping-pong.

A small piece of inclosed ground. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]

See Pinkster.

A making of, or turning into, fat.

See Butterwort.

Fat; unctuous; greasy. [Obs.] "Some clays are more pinguid." Mortimer.

Containing fat; fatty. [Obs.]

Fatness; a growing fat; obesity. [R.]

A genus of low herbs (Pinguicula) having simple leaves which secrete from their glandular upper surface a viscid fluid, to which insects adhere, after which the margin infolds and the insects are digested by the plant. The species are found mostly in the North Temperate zone.

or intermediate between two crops in ordinary rotation in point of time. -- Catch"- crop`ping, n.

ush. (Bot.) Same as Grease wood (below). -- Grease moth (Zoöl.), a pyralid moth (Aglossa pinguinalis) whose larva eats greasy cloth, etc. -- Grease wood (Bot.), a scraggy, stunted, and somewhat prickly shrub (Sarcobatus vermiculatus) of the Spinach family, very abundant in alkaline valleys from the upper Missouri to…

The egg-shaped fleshy fruit of a West Indian plant (Bromelia Pinguin) of the Pineapple family; also, the plant itself, which has rigid, pointed, and spiny-toothed leaves, and is used for hedges. [Written also pinguin.] Arctic penguin (Zoöl.), the great auk. See Auk.

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.

To top off; to finish by putting on a cap of top (uppermost) course (called a top`ping-out" course).