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Piney

Pin'ey, a.

adjective

The same as PINY.

Pin'ey, n.

noun

n. [From pine.] A fatty substance resembling tallow, obtained from the seeds of Vateria Indica:— called also vegetable tallow.

Piney varnish, a pellucid, fragrant, acrid, bitter, resinous fluid which exudes from the bark of Vateria Indica when wounded, and is used in making varnish;— called also liquid copal and pundum. Baird.—Piney thistle (Bot.), a plant of the genus Atractylis (A. gummifera), from the bark of which, when wounded, a gummy substance exudes.