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Having each pinna subdivided; -- said of a leaf, or of its pinnæ.

Having pinnules.

One of the small divisions of a decompound frond or leaf. See Illust. of Bipinnate leaf, under Bipinnate.

An instrument of torture, consisting of a board with holes into which the fingers were pressed, and fastened with pegs. [Written also pilliewinkles.] [Scot.] Sir W. Scott.

The quality or state of being plain.

The California salmon (Oncorhynchus choicha); -- called also chouicha, king salmon, chinnook salmon, and Sacramento salmon. It is of great commercial importance. [Written also quinnet.]

The game of hockey; -- so called because of the liability of the players to receive blows on the shin. Halliwell.

One who has sinned; especially, one who has sinned without repenting; hence, a persistent and incorrigible transgressor; one condemned by the law of God.

A woman who sins. [Obs.]

See Sennit .

One who skins.

Quality of being skinny.

Consisting, or chiefly consisting, of skin; wanting flesh. "Her skinny lips." Shak. He holds him with a skinny hand. Coleridge.

Having a smooth chin; beardless. Drayton.

Having the fin rays cartilaginous or flexible; without spines; -- said of certain fishes.

Having fine supported by spinous fin rays; -- said of certain fishes.

A large triangular sail set upon a boom, -- used when running before the wind.

One who, or that which, spins one skilled in spinning; a spinning machine.

en of spiders, by means of which they spin their webs. Most spiders have three pairs of spinnerets, but some have only two pairs. The ordinary silk line of the spider is composed of numerous smaller lines jointed after issuing from the spinnerets.

One of the numerous small spinning tubes on the spinnerets of spiders.