An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language / in which the words are explained in their different senses, authorized by the names of the writers by whom they are used, or the titles of the works in which they occur, and deduced from their originals

by John Jamieson

Teut. pinck-ooghen, oculos contrahere.

Pinkie, adj. Applied to the eye, when small, or contracted, S.
Ramsay.

To PINK, v. n. To trickle, to drop, S. B.
Ross.

PINKIE, s. The little finger, Loth.

Belg. pink, digitus minimus.

PINKIE, s. The weakest kind of table beer, S.

PINKIE, s. The smallest candle that is made, S.

O. Teut. pincke, cubicularis lucerna simplex.

PINNER, s.
1. A female head-dress, having lappets pinned to the temples reaching down to the breast, and fastened there.
Ramsay.
2. A fleeing pinner, such a head-dress, having the ends of the lappets hanging loose, Ang.

O. Fr. pignoir seems to be synon.