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, or as a support by which one article may be suspended from another; a peg; a bolt. With pins of adamant And chains they made all fast. Milton.

Having the stigma visible at the throad of a gamopetalous corolla, while the stamens are concealed in the tube; -- said of dimorphous flowers. The opposite of Ant: thrum-eyed.

Having a firing pin to explode the cartridge; as, a pin-fire rifle.

Having a tapered tail, with the middle feathers longest; -- said of birds.

fine material for ladies' shawls, scarfs, handkerchiefs, etc., made from the fiber of the pineapple leaf, and perhaps from other fibrous tropical leaves. It is delicate, soft, and transparent, with a slight tinge of pale yellow.

Any of several clumsy, wingless beetles of the genus Eleodes, found in the Pacific States.

A plane parallel to two of the crystalline axes.

A colorless oily liquid related to the ketones, and obtained by the decomposition of pinacone; hence, by extension, any one of the series of which pinacolin proper is the type. [Written also pinacoline.]

s, and made from acetone; hence, by extension, any one of a series of substances of which pinacone proper is the type. [Written also pinakone.]

A picture gallery.

An apron for a child to protect the front part of dress; a tier.

Pinacotheca.

A species of pine (Pinus Pinaster) growing in Southern Europe.

A tablet; a register; hence, a list or scheme inscribed on a tablet. [R.] Sir T. Browne.

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.

Made of pinchbeck; sham; cheap; spurious; unreal. "A pinchbeck throne." J. A. Symonds.

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

The European blue titmouse. [Prov. Eng.]