Pink
- a. Half-shut; winking.
- n. A vessel with a very narrow stern; — called also pinky.
- v. i. To wink; to blink.
- v. t. To choose; to cull; to pick out.
- n. A stab.
- v. t. 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.
- v. t. 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.
- v. t. Anything supremely excellent; the embodiment or perfection of something.
- v. t. The European minnow; — so called from the color of its abdomen in summer. <
The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.