<B>pinchbottle, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a bottle with pinched or concave sides. </DL>
<A NAME="pinchcock">
<B>pinchcock, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a clamp used to compress a flexible or elastic tube so as to regulate or stop the flow of a liquid. </DL>
<A NAME="pincheck">
<B>pincheck, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a fine check smaller than a shepherd's check, used as part of a regular pattern in certain worsteds, rayons, and other fabrics. <DD><B> 2. </B>a garment or fabric having such checks. </DL>
<A NAME="pinched">
<B>pinched, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>compressed, as between the finger and thumb. <DD><B> 2. </B>(Figurative.) contracted, as if by pinching; shrunken, or thin and drawn, as the face or features. <BR> <I>Ex. In the biting easterly wind her face looked small and pinched, and cold (John Galsworthy).</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>(Figurative.) distressed; straitened. <BR> <I>Ex. Apparently not too badly pinched, the smallest producer is not, however, turning out cars at anything like its pace of a year earlier (Wall Street Journal).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="pinchedness">
<B>pinchedness, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the state of being pinched. </DL>
<A NAME="pincheffect">
<B>pinch effect,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (Nuclear Physics.) the constriction of plasma by the magnetic field of an electric current, used in controlling thermonuclear fusion. </DL>
<A NAME="pincherry">
<B>pin cherry,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a wild cherry that has light-red, sour fruit. </DL>
<A NAME="pinchers">
<B>pinchers, </B>noun, pl. <B>-ers.</B> <B>=pincers.</B></DL>
<A NAME="pinchhit">
<B>pinch-hit, </B>verb, <B>-hit,</B> <B>-hitting.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><I>v.i. </I> <B>1. </B>(Baseball.) to bat as a substitute for the officially listed batter, especially when a hit is badly needed. <DD><B> 2. </B>(Figurative.) to take another's place in an emergency. <BR> <I>Ex. Wild signals of distress from the Chief Whip called on some back-bencher to rise and pinch-hit until the Prime Minister was ready (Punch).</I> <DD><I>v.t. </I> (Baseball.) to score by pinch-hitting. <BR> <I>Ex. He pinch-hit a triple in the last game of the season (New York Times).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="pinchhit">
<B>pinch hit,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (Baseball.) a hit made by a pinch hitter. </DL>
<A NAME="pinchhitter">
<B>pinch hitter,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a person who pinch-hits for another. </DL>
<A NAME="pinchhomer">
<B>pinch homer,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (Baseball.) a home run made by a pinch hitter. </DL>
<B>pinching bug,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a variety of stag beetle of the eastern United States that flies by night. </DL>
<A NAME="pinchpenny">
<B>pinchpenny, </B>adjective, noun, pl. <B>-nies.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (Informal.) <DD><I>adj. </I> too economical; frugal; miserly. <BR> <I>Ex. a pinchpenny management.</I> <DD><I>noun </I> a niggardly person; skinflint; miser. </DL>
<A NAME="pinchroller">
<B>pinch roller,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a soft roller, usually made of rubber, that presses the tape against the capstan in a tape recorder. </DL>
<A NAME="pinchrunner">
<B>pinch runner,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (Baseball.) a player who is substituted for a base runner. <BR> <I>Ex. Casey then took Hook out for a pinch runner, Rod Kanehl (New York Times).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="pincurl">
<B>pin curl,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a curl of hair kept in place by a bobby pin or clip. </DL>
<A NAME="pincurl">
<B>pin-curl, </B>transitive verb.<DL COMPACT><DD> to curl (hair) by keeping the locks in place with bobby pins. </DL>
<A NAME="pincushion">
<B>pincushion, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a small cushion to stick pins (and sometimes needles) in until needed. </DL>
<A NAME="pincushiondistortion">
<B>pincushion distortion,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (Optics.) a distortion produced by a lens causing the sides of a square to curve inwards, suggesting the shape of a pincushion. </DL>
<B>pinda, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Southern U.S.) the peanut. Also, <B>pinder.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="pindaric">
<B>Pindaric, </B>adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> <B>1. </B>of, having to do with, or in the style of Pindar, a Greek lyric poet. <BR> <I>Ex. The Rector of Exeter in my day was a Pindaric scholar (New Yorker).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>of elaborate or irregular metrical structure. <DD><I>noun </I> an ode in irregular or constantly changing meter. </DL>
<A NAME="pindaricode">
<B>Pindaric ode,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> an ode or other form of verse with an elaborate or irregular metrical structure. </DL>
<A NAME="pindarics">
<B>Pindarics, </B>noun pl. <B>=Pindaric ode.</B></DL>
<B>pine</B> (1), noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1a. </B>a tree bearing woody cones and clusters of evergreen leaves shaped like needles that grow out from temporary scalelike leaves. The various kinds of pine make up a genus of the pine family. Many kinds are valuable for lumber, turpentine, resin, and tar. <BR> <I>Ex. It is usually easy to distinguish the pines from other evergreen conifers by the arrangement of their leaves (needles) in groups of two, three, or five (Fred W. Emerson).</I> <DD><B> b. </B>any one of various coniferous trees resembling pines, especially in areas where true pines do not occur. <DD><B> 2. </B>the wood of any one of these trees much used in construction. <DD><B> 3. </B>(Informal.) the pineapple. adj. <B>pinelike.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="pine">
<B>pine</B> (2), verb, <B>pined,</B> <B>pining,</B> noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>v.i. </I> <B>1. </B>to long eagerly; yearn. <BR> <I>Ex. to pine for home. The mother was pining to see her son.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>to waste away with pain, hunger, grief, or desire. <BR> <I>Ex. to pine with homesickness, to pine away with longing.</I> (SYN) languish. <DD><I>v.t. </I> (Archaic.) to repine at; lament; mourn. <DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>(Archaic or Scottish.) pain, suffering, or misery. <BR> <I>Ex. heavy-dragg'd wi' pine an' grievin' (Robert Burns).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>(Obsolete.) effort; pains. </DL>
<A NAME="pineal">
<B>pineal, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>having to do with a pine cone or resembling it in shape. <DD><B> 2. </B>of or having to do with the pineal body. </DL>
<A NAME="pinealbody">
<B>pineal body</B> or <B>gland,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a small, somewhat conical structure in the brain of all vertebrates that have a cranium. It secretes various chemical substances, such as melatonin, and appears to function in various animals as a light-sensing organ, as a biological clock, or as a ductless gland whose secretions regulate the activity of sex glands. </DL>
<A NAME="pinealeye">
<B>pineal eye,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> the projection of the pineal gland on the head of some reptiles, that resembles an eye in structure. </DL>
<A NAME="pineapple">
<B>pineapple, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a large, juicy fruit that looks somewhat like a large pine cone and is good to eat. It is a seedless, multiple fruit developed from a conical spike of flowers and surmounted by a crown of small leaves. <DD><B> 2. </B>the plant that it grows on. Pineapple is widely cultivated in tropical regions. It has a short stem and bears a dense cluster of small flowers, rising from a cluster of slender, stiff leaves which are edged with spines. <DD><B> 3. </B>some other plant of the same family, such as the wild pineapple. <DD><B> 4. </B>(Slang.) a hand grenade or bomb (so called from the crisscross pattern on some kinds). </DL>
<A NAME="pineapplecloth">
<B>pineapple cloth,</B> <B>=pina cloth.</B></DL>
<A NAME="pineapplefamily">
<B>pineapple family,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a large group of monocotyledonous tropical American herbs, mostly epiphytic plants with stiff leaves. The family includes the pineapple, Spanish or black moss, and billbergia. </DL>
<A NAME="pinebarren">
<B>pine barren,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (Especially U.S.) a level, sandy tract covered sparsely with pine trees. <BR> <I>Ex. the Georgia pine barrens.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="pinecone">
<B>pine cone,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> the cone or fruit (strobile) of a pine tree. The cone of the white pine with a tassel of needles is the emblem of Maine. </DL>
<A NAME="pinedrops">
<B>pinedrops, </B>noun, pl. <B>-drops.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a slender, purplish, leafless, North American plant related to the Indian pipe, with nodding white to red flowers. It is parasitic on the roots of pine trees. <DD><B> 2. </B><B>=beechdrops.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="pinefamily">
<B>pine family,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a large group of coniferous, mostly evergreen trees and shrubs that have needleshaped leaves and resinous sap, including the pine, fir, spruce, hemlock, larch, and cedar of Lebanon. </DL>
<A NAME="pinefinch">
<B>pine finch,</B> <B>=pine siskin.</B></DL>
<A NAME="pinegrosbeak">
<B>pine grosbeak,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a finch about the size of a robin, living in the northern and mountainous regions of Europe and North America. The male has rosy plumage. </DL>
<A NAME="pinelinnet">
<B>pine linnet,</B> <B>=pine siskin.</B></DL>
<A NAME="pinemarten">
<B>pine marten,</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a marten of the forests of Europe, closely related to the American marten. <DD><B> 2. </B>the American marten. </DL>
<A NAME="pinene">
<B>pinene, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a terpene found in oil of turpentine and other essential oils, occurring in two isomeric forms, and used in making resins, and as a solvent. </DL>
<A NAME="pineneedle">
<B>pine needle,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> the very slender leaf of a pine tree. It is shapedlike a needle. </DL>
<A NAME="pinenut">
<B>pine nut,</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the edible seed or kernel found in the cone of any one of various pines, such as the pinon; pignolia nut. <DD><B> 2. </B>a pine cone, especially one containing edible seeds. </DL>
<A NAME="pinery">
<B>pinery, </B>noun, pl. <B>-eries.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a forest or plantation of pine trees. <DD><B> 2. </B>a place where pineapples are grown. </DL>
<A NAME="pinesap">
<B>pinesap, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a leafless, yellowish or reddish plant of the Northern Hemisphere, similar and related to the Indian pipe, and parasitic on pine roots or growing in decaying organic matter. </DL>
