Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Pink"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Pink \Pink\, n. [D. pink.] (Naut.)
A vessel with a very narrow stern; -- called also {pinky}.
--Sir W. Scott.
{Pink stern} (Naut.), a narrow stern.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Pink \Pink\, v. i. [D. pinken, pinkoogen, to blink, twinkle with
the eyes.]
To wink; to blink. [Obs.] --L'Estrange.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Pink \Pink\, a.
Half-shut; winking. [Obs.] --Shak.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Pink \Pink\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Pinked}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Pinking}.] [OE. pinken to prick, probably a nasalized form
of pick.]
1. To pierce with small holes; to cut the edge of, as cloth
or paper, in small scallops or angles.
2. To stab; to pierce as with a sword. --Addison.
3. To choose; to cull; to pick out. [Obs.] --Herbert.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Pink \Pink\, n.
A stab. --Grose.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Pink \Pink\, n. [Perh. akin to pick; as if the edges of the
petals were picked out. Cf. {Pink}, v. t.]
1. (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.
2. 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. --Dryden.
3. Anything supremely excellent; the embodiment or perfection
of something. ``The very pink of courtesy.'' --Shak.
4. (Zo["o]l.) The European minnow; -- so called from the
color of its abdomen in summer. [Prov. Eng.]
{Bunch pink} is {Dianthus barbatus}.
{China}, 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}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Pink \Pink\, a.
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.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
pink
adj : similar to the natural color of pinks [syn: {pinkish}]
n 1: a light shade of red
2: any of various flowers of plants of the genus Dianthus
cultivated for their fragrant flowers [syn: {garden pink}]
v 1: make light, repeated taps on a surface; "he was tapping his
fingers on the table impatiently" [syn: {tap}, {rap}, {knock}]
2: cut in a zig-zag pattern with pinking shears, in sewing
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