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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.

See 1st Pink.

See Pinkboot.

Having a pink color like that of the rose, or like the pigment called rose pink. See Rose pink, under Rose.

See Thrift.

The chaffinch.

has a skin of a milky hue, with hair of the same color, and eyes with deep red pupil and pink or blue iris. The term is also used of the lower animals, as white mice, elephants, etc.; and of plants in a whitish condition from the absence of chlorophyll. Amer. Cyc.

A species of clover with pinkish or white flowers; Trifolium hybridum.

The stipe when developed into an internode between calyx and corolla, as in the Pink family. Gray.

An antiquary; a collector of antiques. [R.] Pinkerton.

The higher order of clergy in Russia, including metropolitans, archbishops, and bishops. Pinkerton.