Index of English words, starting with "pi"

(1) - Pinion (v. t.) Hence, generally, to confine; to bind; to tie up.
(2) - Pinion (v. t.) To disable or restrain, as a person, by binding the arms, esp. by binding the arms to the body.
(3) - Pinion (v. t.) To disable by cutting off the pinion joint.
(4) - Pinion (v. t.) To bind or confine the wings of; to confine by binding the wings.
(5) - Pinion (n.) 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.
(6) - Pinion (n.) A fetter for the arm.
(7) - Pinion (n.) The joint of bird's wing most remote from the body.
(8) - Pinion (n.) A wing, literal or figurative.
(9) - Pinion (n.) A feather; a quill.
(10) - Pinion (n.) A moth of the genus Lithophane, as L. antennata, whose larva bores large holes in young peaches and apples.

(1) - Pinite (n.) A sweet white crystalline substance extracted from the gum of a species of pine (Pinus Lambertina). It is isomeric with, and resembles, quercite.
(2) - Pinite (n.) Any fossil wood which exhibits traces of having belonged to the Pine family.
(3) - Pinite (n.) 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.

(1) - Pink (a.) Resembling the garden pink in color; of the color called pink (see 6th Pink, 2); as, a pink dress; pink ribbons.
(2) - Pink (v. t.) The European minnow; -- so called from the color of its abdomen in summer.
(3) - Pink (v. t.) Anything supremely excellent; the embodiment or perfection of something.
(4) - Pink (v. t.) 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.
(5) - Pink (v. t.) 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.
(6) - Pink (n.) A stab.
(7) - Pink (v. t.) To choose; to cull; to pick out.
(8) - Pink (v. t.) To stab; to pierce as with a sword.
(9) - Pink (v. t.) To pierce with small holes; to cut the edge of, as cloth or paper, in small scallops or angles.
(10) - Pink (a.) Half-shut; winking.
(11) - Pink (v. i.) To wink; to blink.
(12) - Pink (n.) A vessel with a very narrow stern; -- called also pinky.