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afflict. [Obs.] Chaucer. Shak. That people that pyned him to death. Piers Plowman. One is pined in prison, another tortured on the rack. Bp. Hall.

Clad or crowned with pine trees; as, pine-clad hills.

Maine; -- a nickname alluding to the pine tree in its coat of arms.

Of or pertaining to a pine cone; resembling a pine cone. Pineal gland (Anat.), a glandlike body in the roof of the third ventricle of the vertebrate brain; -- called also pineal body, epiphysis, conarium. In some animals it is connected with a rudimentary eye, the so-called pineal eye, and in other animals it is suppos…

from the resemblance of the latter, in shape and external appearance, to the cone of the pine tree. Its origin is unknown, though conjectured to be American.

See Pinaster.

eddish herb (Pterospora andromedea) of the United States, found parasitic on the roots of pine trees.

A small American bird (Spinus, or Chrysomitris, spinus); -- called also pine siskin, and American siskin.

Tabular parenchyma, a form of cellular tissue in which the cells are broad and flat, as in some kinds of epidermis.

A pine forest; a grove of pines.

b of the genus Monotropa (M. hypopitys), formerly thought to be parasitic on the roots of pine trees, but more probably saprophytic.

A plantation of pine trees; esp., a collection of living pine trees made for ornamental or scientific purposes.

A low, bushy, nearly leafless herb (Hypericum Sarothra), common in sandy soil in the Eastern United States.

A term used in designating an East Indian tree (the Vateria Indica or piney tree, of the order Dipterocarpeæ, which grows in Malabar, etc.) or its products. Piney dammar, Piney resin, Piney varnish, a pellucid, fragrant, acrid, bitter resin, which exudes from the piney tree (Vateria Indica) when wounded. It is used as…

Of or pertaining to the Alps, or to any lofty mountain; as, Alpine snows; Alpine plants.

The resiniferous tree Agathis Dammara, of the Moluccas.

Of or relating to the antelope.

An arpent. [Obs.] Webster (1623).

A poisonous, white, crystallizable alkaloid, extracted from the Atropa belladonna, or deadly nightshade, and the Datura Stramonium, or thorn apple. It is remarkable for its power in dilating the pupil of the eye. Called also daturine.

Same as Monkey-puzzle.