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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

... given by animals and plants. His happiness, like the Scythian philosopher's, lay all in the beauties of his garden; and best-loved and visited most often, was the apiary, composed of twelve domes of straw, some of which he had painted a bright pink, and some a clear yellow, but most of all a tender blue; having noticed, long before Sir John Lubbock's demonstrations, the bees' fondness ...

— The Life of the Bee • Maurice Maeterlinck

... down upon Lost Valley. The wide ranges lay dim and mysterious, grey and pink and lavendar, as if the hand of a Master Painter had coloured them, as indeed it had. The Rockface at the west was black with shadow for all its rugged miles, the eastern uplands were bathed and aglow ...

— Tharon of Lost Valley • Vingie E. Roe

... jessamine, clematis, and musk-roses, and in one southern nook a magnificent tree-like fuchsia, but the old chimney actually garlanded with delicate creepers, the maurandia, and the lotus spermus, whose pink and purple bells, peeping out from between their elegant foliage, and mingling with the bolder blossoms and darker leaves of the passion-flower, give such a wreathy and airy grace to the humblest building;* in spite of this luxuriance of ...

— The Widow's Dog • Mary Russell Mitford

... posed. To her other eccentricities it seemed Miss Raymount added radicalism—and that not of the palest pink! But happily for him, Cornelius, who had been all the time making noises on the piano, at this point ...

— Weighed and Wanting • George MacDonald

... Like some great silver-pink fish, the ship sang on through the eternal night. There was no impression of swimming; the fish shape had neither fins nor a tail. It was as though it were hovering in wait for a member of some smaller species ...

— Anything You Can Do ... • Gordon Randall Garrett

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