the Week of Proper 28 / Ordinary 33
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Pink
Webster's Dictionary
or (1):
(v. t.) To stab; to pierce as with a sword.
(2):
(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.
(3):
(v. t.) The European minnow; - so called from the color of its abdomen in summer.
(4):
(n.) A vessel with a very narrow stern; - called also pinky.
(5):
(v. i.) To wink; to blink.
(6):
(a.) Half-shut; winking.
(7):
(a.) Resembling the garden pink in color; of the color called pink (see 6th Pink, 2); as, a pink dress; pink ribbons.
(8):
(v. t.) To pierce with small holes; to cut the edge of, as cloth or paper, in small scallops or angles.
(9):
(v. t.) To choose; to cull; to pick out.
(10):
(n.) A stab.
(11):
(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.
(12):
(v. t.) Anything supremely excellent; the embodiment or perfection of something.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Pink'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/p/pink.html. 1828.
