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Containing fat; fatty. [Obs.]

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

A place where a pin is fixed.

Of or pertaining to the pine; obtained from the pine; formerly, designating an acid which is the chief constituent of common resin, - - now called abietic, or sylvic, acid.

Languishing; drooping; wasting away, as with longing.

In a pining manner; droopingly. Poe.

A wing, literal or figurative. Swift on his sooty pinions flits the gnome. Pope.

Having wings or pinions.

Any winged creature.

A sweet white crystalline substance extracted from the gum of a species of pine (Pinus Lambertina). It is isomeric with, and resembles, quercite.

A vessel with a very narrow stern; -- called also pinky. Sir W. Scott. Pink stern (Naut.), a narrow stern.

See Chebacco, and 1st Pink.

Having small eyes. Holland.

Having a very narrow stern; -- said of a vessel.

Pierced with small holes; worked in eyelets; scalloped on the edge. Shak.

The act or method of decorating fabrics or garments with a pinking iron; also, the style of decoration; scallops made with a pinking iron. Pinking iron. (a) An instrument for scalloping the edges of ribbons, flounces, etc. (b) A sword. [Colloq.]

Somewhat pink.

Quality or state of being pink.

gelia Marilandica), sometimes cultivated for its showy red blossoms. Called also Carolina pink, Maryland pinkroot, and worm grass.

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.