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_Mellvill's MS._
PINCH, PUNCH, _s._ An iron lever, S.
Fland. _pinsse_, Fr. _pince_, id.
_To_ PYNE, _v. a._ To subject to pain, S.
Isl. _pyn-a_, A. S. _pinan_, torquere.
_Wall._
~Pyne~, _s._
1. Pain, S.
_Wyntown._
2. Labour, pains.
_Douglas._
A. S. _pin_, Teut. _pyne_, cruciatus.
PYNE DOUBLET, a concealed coat of mail.
Su. G. _pin-a_, coarctare.
_Cromerty._
PINERIS, PYNORIS, _s. pl._ Pioneers.
_Knox._
_To_ PINGE.
V. ~Peenge~.
_To_ PINGIL, PINGLE,
1. _v. n._ To strive, to labour a.s.siduously without making much progress, S.
_Douglas._
2. To vie with.
_Douglas._
3. To toil for a scanty sustenance.
_Dunbar._
4. _v. a._ To reduce to straits.
_Douglas._
Su. G. _pyng_, labour, anxiety.
~Pingil~, ~Pingle~, _s._
1. A strife, S.
_Ramsay._
2. Difficulty, S.
_Journal Lond._
3. Hesitation.
_Ramsay._
~Pingling~, _s._ Difficulty, S.
_Pitscottie._
PINYIONE, _s._ A handful of armed men.
_Acts Marie._
_To_ PINK, _v. n._ To contract the eye, to glimmer, S.
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._
