Vocabulary : Pinguitude to Pinite
Pinguitude : Fatness; a growing fat; obesity.
Pinhold : A place where a pin is fixed.
Pinic : Of or pertaining to the pine; obtained from the pine; formerly, designating an acid which is the chief constituent of common resin, -- now called abietic, or sylvic, acid.
Pining : of Pine ;; Languishing; drooping; wasting away, as with longing. ;; Wasting; consuming.
Piningly : In a pining manner; droopingly.
Pinion : A moth of the genus Lithophane, as L. antennata, whose larva bores large holes in young peaches and apples. ;; A feather; a quill. ;; A wing, literal or figurative. ;; The joint of bird's wing most remote from the body. ;; A fetter for the arm. ;; A cogwheel with a small number of teeth, or leaves, adapted to engage with a larger wheel, or rack (see Rack); esp., such a wheel having its leaves formed of the substance of the arbor or spindle which is its axis. ;; To bind or confine the wings of; to confine by binding the wings. ;; To disable by cutting off the pinion joint. ;; To disable or restrain, as a person, by binding the arms, esp. by binding the arms to the body. ;; Hence, generally, to confine; to bind; to tie up.
Pinioned : of Pinion ;; Having wings or pinions.
Pinioning : of Pinion
Pinionist : Any winged creature.
Pinite : A compact granular cryptocrystalline mineral of a dull grayish or greenish white color. It is a hydrous alkaline silicate, and is derived from the alteration of other minerals, as iolite. ;; Any fossil wood which exhibits traces of having belonged to the Pine family. ;; A sweet white crystalline substance extracted from the gum of a species of pine (Pinus Lambertina). It is isomeric with, and resembles, quercite.
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