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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

... down into the face of a proud and happy woman, and, at times, studied the quality of the odd mite beside her, half hidden in the waves of pillow and of sheet. He would look at the thing's wonderful hands, and its wonderful pink feet, and have remarks to make. One hour he came in and examined the creature and repeated ...

— A Man and a Woman • Stanley Waterloo

... in her face, and to spare, for the blood-stained neck and cheek, and even the bare shoulder under the torn crape burned pink. ...

— The Maids of Paradise • Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

... boys, washed and dressed to an intolerable state of discomfort; rows of gawky big boys; snowbanks of girls and young ladies clad in lawn and muslin and conspicuously conscious of their bare arms, their grandmothers' ancient trinkets, their bits of pink and blue ribbon and the flowers in their hair. All the rest of the house was filled ...

— Innocents abroad • Mark Twain

... set opposite and the minister an' his wife an' Mr. Dill an' Gran'ma Mullins made up the table. The rest stood around, and we was all as lively as words can tell. The cake was one o' the handsomest as I ever see, two pigeons peckin' a bell on top and Hiram an' Lucy runnin' around below in pink. There was a dime inside an' a ring, an' I got the dime, an' they must have forgot to put in the ring for ...

— The Wit and Humor of America, Volume IV. (of X.) • Various

... suppose, took the form of long graceful curls. In colour it was a rich glossy black. They were certainly an exceptionally fine race of people, the men being lithe, clean-limbed, muscular fellows, every one of them apparently in the pink of condition, while the faces and figures of the women, especially the younger ones, would have excited the envy of many an English belle. But there was a something, very difficult to define, in the expression of these people that I did not at all like, a hardness about the mouth, and ...

— A Middy of the Slave Squadron - A West African Story • Harry Collingwood

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