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adjective

Pink adj. Half-shut; winking. (Obs.)

Pink adj. Resembling the garden pink in color; of the color called pink (see 6th Pink, 2); as, a pink dress; pink ribbons.

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.

noun

Pink n. (Naut.) A vessel with a very narrow stern; called also pinky.

Pink stern (Naut.), a narrow stern.

Pink n. A stab.

Pink n.

(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.

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.

Anything supremely excellent; the embodiment or perfection of something. "The very pink of courtesy."

(Zool.) The European minnow; so called from the color of its abdomen in summer. (Prov. Eng.)

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.

verb

Pink v. t. (past & past part. pinked; pres. part. pinking)

To pierce with small holes; to cut the edge of, as cloth or paper, in small scallops or angles.

To stab; to pierce as with a sword.

To choose; to cull; to pick out. (Obs.)

Pink v. i. To wink; to blink. (Obs.)

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Etymology of 'Pink'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Pink" Quotes from Famous Books

... "Cap'n Scroby [Trowbridge] he acvise me not for marry dis lady, 'cause she hab seben chil'en. What for use? Cap'n Scroby can't lub for me. I mus' lub for myself, and I lub he." I remember that on this occasion "he" stood by, a most unattractive woman, jet black, with an old pink muslin dress, torn white cotton gloves, and a very flowery bonnet, that must have descended through generations ...

— Army Life in a Black Regiment • Thomas Wentworth Higginson

... is a question which is disposed of instantly," said Tricotrin, "You shall spend your money on a theatre, and go to a ball as well." And out fluttered the pink pass ...

— A Chair on The Boulevard • Leonard Merrick

... are "The Merry Dancers," or Aurora Borealis. It was believed that, when the streamers were coloured, the "men and maids" were dancing, and that after the dance the lovers fought for the love of the queen. When the streamers are particularly vivid, a pink cloud is seen below them, and this is called "the pool of blood." It drips upon blood-stones, the spots on which are referred to as fairy blood (fuil siochaire). A wizard could, by waving his wand, summon the "Nimble Men" to dance in ...

— Elves and Heroes • Donald A. MacKenzie

... of the cowboys heard and came after, riding hard and shooting as they came. Buddy's pink apron fluttered a signal flag in the arms of his captor, and so it happened that the bullets whistled close to that particular Indian. He gathered a handful of calico between Buddy's shoulders, held him ...

— Cow-Country • B. M. Bower

... felt their soft little touches on his head and his twigs and his branches. When he looked down at himself, as far as he could look, he saw that he was all hung with gold and silver chains! There were strings of white fluffy stuff drooping around him; his twigs held little gold nuts and pink, rosy balls and silver stars; he had pretty little pink and white candles in his arms; but last, and most wonderful of all, the children hung a beautiful white, floating doll-angel over his head! The Little Fir Tree could not breathe, ...

— Stories to Tell Children - Fifty-Four Stories With Some Suggestions For Telling • Sara Cone Bryant

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