Pindaric. Of verses, irregular in metre; like the verses of the lyric poet Pindar.
Pingle Pan, Scotch. A small tin ladle used for mixing children’s food.
Pink Madder. (See Madder.)
Pinking. Stamping out borders and edges upon textile fabrics with a cutting instrument.
Pinks (Fr. stil de grain). These are water-colour pigments of a yellow or greenish-yellow colour produced from the precipitation of vegetable juices, such as saffron, aloes, buckthorn-berries, broom-flowers, &c., upon chalk or whiting. They are Italian pink, sometimes called yellow lake; brown pink, rose pink, and Dutch pink.
Pinna, R. (lit. a wing). (1) The top of an embattled wall, the battlements. (2) The blade of a rudder.
Pinnacle, Arch. A small spire, generally with four sides and ornamented; it is usually placed on the tops of buttresses, both external and internal.
Pins. Metal pins were introduced into this country from France in 1543, previous to which ladies were accustomed to fasten their dresses with skewers of box-wood, ivory, or bone.
Pipe. A musical wind instrument, represented in the 14th century, in Strutt’s Sports and Pastimes, as used with the TABOR to accompany mountebanks, &c. (See also Aulos, Pito, &c.)
Pipe-clay. An oily clay found in large quantities in Devonshire; used for moulding earthenware, but chiefly for tobacco-pipes.