Result from Foreign Dictionaries (9 entries found)

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Pink \Pink\, n. [D. pink.] (Naut.) A vessel with a very narrow stern; -- called also {pinky}. --Sir W. Scott. [1913 Webster] {Pink stern} (Naut.), a narrow stern. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Pink \Pink\, v. i. [D. pinken, pinkoogen, to blink, twinkle with the eyes.] To wink; to blink. [Obs.] --L'Estrange. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Pink \Pink\, a. Half-shut; winking. [Obs.] --Shak. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Pink \Pink\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Pinked}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Pinking}.] [OE. pinken to prick, probably a nasalized form of pick.] 1. To pierce with small holes; to cut the edge of, as cloth or paper, in small scallops or angles. [1913 Webster] 2. To stab; to pierce as with a sword. --Addison. [1913 Webster] 3. To choose; to cull; to pick out. [Obs.] --Herbert. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Pink \Pink\, n. A stab. --Grose. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Pink \Pink\, n. [Perh. akin to pick; as if the edges of the petals were picked out. Cf. {Pink}, v. t.] 1. (Bot.) A name given to several plants of the caryophyllaceous genus {Dianthus}, and to their flowers, which are sometimes very fragrant and often double in cultivated varieties. The species are mostly perennial herbs, with opposite linear leaves, and handsome five-petaled flowers with a tubular calyx. [1913 Webster] 2. A color resulting from the combination of a pure vivid red with more or less white; -- so called from the common color of the flower. --Dryden. [1913 Webster] 3. Anything supremely excellent; the embodiment or perfection of something. "The very pink of courtesy." --Shak. [1913 Webster] 4. (Zool.) The European minnow; -- so called from the color of its abdomen in summer. [Prov. Eng.] [1913 Webster] {Bunch pink} is {Dianthus barbatus}. {China pink}, or {Indian pink}. See under {China}. {Clove pink} is {Dianthus Caryophyllus}, the stock from which carnations are derived. {Garden pink}. See {Pheasant's eye}. {Meadow pink} is applied to {Dianthus deltoides}; also, to the ragged robin. {Maiden pink}, {Dianthus deltoides}. {Moss pink}. See under {Moss}. {Pink needle}, the pin grass; -- so called from the long, tapering points of the carpels. See {Alfilaria}. {Sea pink}. See {Thrift}. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Pink \Pink\, a. Resembling the garden pink in color; of the color called pink (see 6th {Pink}, 2); as, a pink dress; pink ribbons. [1913 Webster] {Pink eye} (Med.), a popular name for an epidemic variety of ophthalmia, associated with early and marked redness of the eyeball. {Pink salt} (Chem. & Dyeing), the double chlorides of (stannic) tin and ammonium, formerly much used as a mordant for madder and cochineal. {Pink saucer}, a small saucer, the inner surface of which is covered with a pink pigment. [1913 Webster] From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: pink adj 1: of a light shade of red [syn: {pink}, {pinkish}] n 1: a light shade of red 2: any of various flowers of plants of the genus Dianthus cultivated for their fragrant flowers [syn: {pink}, {garden pink}] 3: a person with mildly leftist political views [syn: {pinko}, {pink}] v 1: make light, repeated taps on a surface; "he was tapping his fingers on the table impatiently" [syn: {tap}, {rap}, {knock}, {pink}] 2: sound like a car engine that is firing too early; "the car pinged when I put in low-octane gasoline"; "The car pinked when the ignition was too far retarded" [syn: {pink}, {ping}, {knock}] 3: cut in a zigzag pattern with pinking shears, in sewing From Dutch-English Freedict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 [fd-nld-eng]: pink /piŋk/ bark; barque