<B>pinkie</B> (2), noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (U.S.) a type of fishing boat with a very narrow stern, used along the Atlantic coast. Also, <B>pinky.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="pinkingiron">
<B>pinking iron,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a tool of iron or steel with a specially shaped end for pinking cloth. It is driven through the material by blows of a hammer on the other end. </DL>
<A NAME="pinkingshears">
<B>pinking shears,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> shears for pinking cloth. </DL>
<B>Pink Lady,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (U.S.) a cocktail made with gin and brandy, mixed with fruit juices, grenadine, and egg white. </DL>
<A NAME="pinko">
<B>pinko, </B>noun, pl. <B>pinkos</B> or <B>pinkoes,</B> adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> (U.S. Slang.) <DD><I>noun </I> a suspected Communist sympathizer; leftist. <DD><I>adj. </I> suspected of sympathizing with the Communists; leftist; radical. </DL>
<A NAME="pinkrhododendron">
<B>pink rhododendron,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a rhododendron of the western United States, with pink flowers; California rosebay. </DL>
<A NAME="pinkroot">
<B>pinkroot, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the root of any of a group of herbs, especially a variety of the southern United States with showy red and yellow, funnel-shaped flowers, used as a vermifuge. <DD><B> 2. </B>any one of these plants. </DL>
<A NAME="pinksalmon">
<B>pink salmon,</B> =humpback salmon.</DL>
<A NAME="pinkslip">
<B>pink slip,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (U.S. Slang.) a notification to an employee that he has been discharged. </DL>
<A NAME="pinkspot">
<B>pink spot,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a chemical substance closely related to mescaline, discovered in the urine of certain types of schizophrenics and held to be a biochemical indication of schizophrenia. <BR> <I>Ex. There are strong arguments against the pink spot being due to diet, drugs, or institution life (New Scientist).</I> </DL>
<B>pinky</B> (2), noun, pl. <B>pinkies.</B> <B>=pinkie</B> (1).</DL>
<A NAME="pinky">
<B>pinky</B> (3), noun, pl. <B>pinkies.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a fishing boat of the Atlantic coast; pinkie. </DL>
<A NAME="pinleverwatch">
<B>pin-lever watch</B> or <B>clock,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a timepiece having all or most of its holes fitted with metals in place of jewels. Pin-lever watches and clocks are less reliable and durable and less costly than jeweled timepieces. </DL>
<A NAME="pinmark">
<B>pin mark,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a small depression in the shank of a printing type, sometimes containing an identifying number or symbol. </DL>
<A NAME="pinmoney">
<B>pin money,</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>an allowance of money made by a man to his wife or daughter for her own use. <DD><B> 2. </B>a small amount of money used to buy extra things for one's own use and often earned through parttime activities. </DL>
<A NAME="pinna">
<B>pinna, </B>noun, pl. <B>pinnae,</B> <B>pinnas.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>(Zoology.) <DD><B> a. </B>a feather, wing, or winglike part. <DD><B> b. </B>a fin, flipper, or similar part. <DD><B> 2. </B>(Anatomy.) the auricle of the ear. <DD><B> 3. </B>(Botany.) one of the primary divisions of a pinnate leaf, especially in ferns; leaflet. </DL>
<A NAME="pinnace">
<B>pinnace </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a ship's boat. <BR> <I>Ex. He used ... to take the ship's pinnace and go out into the road a-fishing (Daniel Defoe).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>any light sailing vessel. <BR> <I>Ex. The winged pinnace shot along the sea (Alexander Pope).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="pinnacle">
<B>pinnacle, </B>noun, verb, <B>-cled,</B> <B>-cling.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>a high peak or point of rock. <BR> <I>Ex. Far off, three mountaintops, Three silent pinnacles of aged snow, Stood sunset-flush'd (Tennyson).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>(Figurative.) the highest point. <BR> <I>Ex. at the pinnacle of one's fame.</I> (SYN) apex, top, zenith, acme. <DD><B> 3. </B>a slender turret or spire. A pinnacle is usually ornamental, and terminates in a pyramid or cone, crowns a buttress, or rises above the roof or coping of a building. <DD><I>v.t. </I> <B>1. </B>to put on or as if on a pinnacle. <DD><B> 2. </B>to furnish with a pinnacle or pinnacles. <DD><B> 3. </B>to form the pinnacle of; crown. </DL>
<A NAME="pinnal">
<B>pinnal, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> having to do with the pinna of the ear. </DL>
<A NAME="pinnate">
<B>pinnate, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>like a feather; having lateral parts or branches arranged on each side of a common axis, like the vanes of a feather. <DD><B> 2. </B>(of a compound leaf) having a series of leaflets arranged on each side of a common stalk. The leaflets are usually opposite, sometimes alternate. Also, <B>pennate.</B> adv. <B>pinnately.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="pinnated">
<B>pinnated, </B>adjective. =pinnate.</DL>
<A NAME="pinnatifid">
<B>pinnatifid, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Botany.) divided or cleft in a pinnate manner, with the divisions extending halfway down to the midrib, or somewhat further, and the divisions or lobes narrow or acute. <BR> <I>Ex. a pinnatifid leaf.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="pinnatilobate">
<B>pinnatilobate, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Botany.) lobed in a pinnate manner. <BR> <I>Ex. a pinnatilobate leaf.</I> </DL>
<B>pinnation, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Botany.) a pinnate condition or formation. </DL>
<A NAME="pinnatipartite">
<B>pinnatipartite, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Botany.) parted in a pinnate manner. <BR> <I>Ex. a pinnatipartite leaf.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="pinnatiped">
<B>pinnatiped, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> having lobate toes. <BR> <I>Ex. a pinnatiped bird.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="pinnatisect">
<B>pinnatisect, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Botany.) divided in a pinnate manner; cut down to the midrib, but with the divisions not articulated so as to form separate leaflets. <BR> <I>Ex. a pinnatisect leaf.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="pinner">
<B>pinner, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a person or thing that pins. <DD><B> 2. </B>Also, <B>pinners.</B> a kind of headdress with two long flaps, pinned on and hanging down, one on each side, worn especially by noblewomen in the 1600's and 1700's. </DL>
<A NAME="pinnigrade">
<B>pinnigrade, </B>adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> moving on land by means of finlike parts or flippers, as seals and walruses. <DD><I>noun </I> a pinnigrade animal. </DL>
<A NAME="pinniped">
<B>pinniped, </B>adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> <B>1. </B>of or belonging to a suborder (or, in some classifications, an order) of carnivorous mammals that includes seals and walruses. <DD><B> 2. </B>having finlike feet. <DD><I>noun </I> a pinniped animal. </DL>
<B>pinnula, </B>noun, pl. <B>-lae.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B><B>=pinnule.</B> <DD><B> 2. </B>a barb of a feather. </DL>
<A NAME="pinnular">
<B>pinnular, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of or having to do with a pinnule. </DL>
<A NAME="pinnulate">
<B>pinnulate, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> having pinnules. </DL>
<A NAME="pinnulated">
<B>pinnulated, </B>adjective. =pinnulate.</DL>
<A NAME="pinnule">
<B>pinnule, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>(Zoology.) a part or organ resembling a small wing or fin, or a barb of a feather: <DD><B> a. </B>a small, finlike appendage or short, detached fin ray in certain fishes, as the mackerel. <DD><B> b. </B>each of the lateral branches of the arms in crinoids. <DD><B> 2. </B>(Botany.) one of the secondary or ultimate divisions of a pinnate leaf, especially in ferns; a subdivision of a pinna. </DL>
<A NAME="pinny">
<B>pinny, </B>noun, pl. <B>-nies.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (Informal.) a pinafore. </DL>
<A NAME="pinoak">
<B>pin oak,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> an oak native to the eastern United States but widely distributed, whose dead branches resemble pins driven into the trunk; swamp oak. </DL>
<A NAME="pinochle">
<B>pinochle</B> or <B>pinocle, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a card game played with a double deck of all cards from the nine through the ace, totaling 48. The object is to score points according to the value of certain combinations of cards. <DD><B> 2. </B>a combination of the jack of diamonds and the queen of spades in this game. </DL>
<A NAME="pinocytosis">
<B>pinocytosis, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a process by which cells take in fluids, in which the cell membrane folds back into itself to engulf the fluid and then closes up to become a vesicle. <BR> <I>Ex. Glucose, which amoebae normally absorb only in trace amounts, enters freely by means of pinocytosis (Scientific American).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="pinocytotic">
<B>pinocytotic, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of or having to do with pinocytosis. <BR> <I>Ex. pinocytotic vesicles.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="pinole">
<B>pinole, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a coarse meal made from parched corn (or, occasionally, wheat), usually slightly sweetened with the flour of mesquite beans, used as a foodstuff in the southwestern United States. </DL>
<A NAME="pinon">
<B>pinon, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a low pine, especially of the southern Rocky Mountain region, southwestern United States, and Mexico, producing large, nutlike seeds which are good to eat. <DD><B> 2. </B>its seed. Also, <B>pinyon.</B> </DL>
