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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.]

relation to each other, and the state of the business in which they occur; the art of keeping accounts. The books commonly used are a daybook, cashbook, journal, and ledger. See Daybook, Cashbook, Journal, and Ledger. Bookkeeping by single entry, the method of keeping books by carrying the record of each transaction t…

The act or process of daubing a vessel's bottom near the surface of the water with a mixture of tallow, sulphur, and resin, as a temporary protection against worms, after the slime, shells, etc., have been scraped off.

Lodging in a camp.

A plane used for working the upper surface of staircase rails.

Fault-finding; censorious caviling. See Captious. -- Carp"ing*ly, adv.

One of the short ropes or iron cramps used to brace in the shrouds toward the masts so a to give freer sweep to the yards.

A chip; a piece separated by a cutting or graving instrument; a fragment.

The chippy.

See Chipmunk.

Cheering; enlivening. He takes his chirping pint, he cracks his jokes. Pope.

In a chirping manner.