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Pink \Pink\, n. [D. pink.] (Naut.)
A vessel with a very narrow stern; -- called also {pinky}.
--Sir W. Scott.
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{Pink stern} (Naut.), a narrow stern.
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Pink \Pink\, v. i. [D. pinken, pinkoogen, to blink, twinkle with
the eyes.]
To wink; to blink. [Obs.] --L'Estrange.
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Pink \Pink\, a.
Half-shut; winking. [Obs.] --Shak.
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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.
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2. To stab; to pierce as with a sword. --Addison.
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3. To choose; to cull; to pick out. [Obs.] --Herbert.
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Pink \Pink\, n.
A stab. --Grose.
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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.
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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.
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3. Anything supremely excellent; the embodiment or perfection
of something. "The very pink of courtesy." --Shak.
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4. (Zool.) The European minnow; -- so called from the color
of its abdomen in summer. [Prov. Eng.]
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{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}.
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Pink \Pink\, a.
Resembling the garden pink in color; of the color called pink
(see 6th {Pink}, 2); as, a pink dress; pink ribbons.
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{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.
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