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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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... good things for the feast. This she insisted upon. So Connie spread quite a lordly board—cold meats not a few, some special delicacies for Giles, and a splendid frosted cake with the word "Cinderella" written in pink fairy writing across the top. This special cake had been made by Mrs. Price, and Pickles had brought it and laid it with immense pride on a dish in the centre of ...

— Sue, A Little Heroine • L. T. Meade

... the Fair was opened, and Mrs. Douglas, at Lily's request, placed the basket of dolls, which now were glittering in pink and blue gauze, in the very centre of her table. Every day Lily went with her mother to the Fair, but never without the one doll, her mother's latest gift, in her arms. Out of all her stock of clothing she had dressed ...

— Harper's Young People, December 16, 1879 - An Illustrated Weekly • Various

... reverberation into space. Boreal nature, in its struggle with the frost, presented a splendid spectacle. The brig went very near the coast; on some sheltered rocks rare heaths were to be seen, the pink flowers lifting their heads timidly out of the snows, and some meagre lichens of a reddish colour and the shoots of ...

— The English at the North Pole - Part I of the Adventures of Captain Hatteras • Jules Verne

... on a side-table, in its silver coaster, a long-necked Rhenish bottle, and beside it a thin pink glass, and he quivered his fingers in a ...

— Uncle Silas - A Tale of Bartram-Haugh • J.S. Le Fanu

... sea-birds flew or sailed to and fro; some with the busy fluttering of activity, as if they had something to do and a mind to do it; others loitering idly on the wing, or dipping lightly on the wave, as if to bid their images good-morning. Burgomaster, yellow-legged, and pink-beaked gulls, large and small, wheeled in widening circles round him. Occasional flocks of ptarmigan, in the mixed brown and white plumage of summer, whirred swiftly over him and took refuge among the rocky heights of the interior, none of which heights ...

— The Giant of the North - Pokings Round the Pole • R.M. Ballantyne

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