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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

... of hotel)—"On the first floor, next to the dining-room, is the ladies' smoking-room; over here is the men's writing-room; here is the blue lecture-room where the suffrage meetings are to be held; next to it is the pink tea-room. Directly over it, on the second floor, is the music-room, where the Tuesday recitals will be given; behind it is the little theater for the Saturday tableaux. The ballroom is on the third floor, ...

— More Toasts • Marion Dix Mosher

... over a slow fire. The Coal Trust will see to it that you have no trouble in getting a slow but expensive fire. Let them sizzle. Now remove the necks from the clams and add baking soda. Let them sizzle. Take the juice of a lemon and scatter it at the clams. Serve hot, with pink finger bowls with your initials on them. Some people prefer to have their initials on the clams, but such an idea ...

— The Silly Syclopedia • Noah Lott

... strange, inartistic colonies, where architecture was not understood. Revelation came to George that the British Empire, which he had always suspected to be an invention of those intolerable persons the Imperialists, was after all something more than a crude pink smear across the ...

— The Roll-Call • Arnold Bennett

... set off for church the grey sky had changed to blue; the sun had just set, and little pink clouds like fairy cushions hung round the moon. As they passed out of the town, through the crooked path down to the Cove, Harry had again that strong sense of Cornwall that came to him sometimes so suddenly, so strangely, that it was almost mysterious, for it seemed to ...

— The Wooden Horse • Hugh Walpole

... brother, the prisoner wrote that fatal letter, and that letter is the chief, the most stupendous proof of the prisoner having committed robbery! 'I shall beg from every one, and if I don't get it I shall murder my father and shall take the envelope with the pink ribbon on it from under his mattress as soon as Ivan has gone.' A full program of the murder, we are told, so it must have been he. 'It has all been done as ...

— The Brothers Karamazov • Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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