n. 1. 1 a genus of perennial rhizomatous herbs of Asia and Australia and Polynesia having ginger-scented rhizomes.
Syn. -- genus Alpinia, genus Zerumbet, genus Languas. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. A climber of the Alps. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Want or difference of belief; disbelief. [ Obs. ] Bp. Reynolds. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ See Epinicion. ] Relating to victory. “An epinicial song.” T. Warton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ NL., fr. Gr. &unr_;, fr. &unr_; belonging to victory; 'epi` upon, to + &unr_; victory: cf. L. epinicium. ] A song of triumph. [ Obs. ] T. Warton. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Epinicial. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Chem.) Lipic. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Chem.) A glucoside found in the seeds of several species of lupine, and extracted as a yellowish white crystalline substance. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Chem.) An alkaloid found in several species of lupine (Lupinus luteus, Lupinus albus, etc.), and extracted as a bitter crystalline substance, having a formula C10H19NO. Called also l-lupinine [ 1913 Webster ]

Chemically it is a a bicyclic saturated quinolizine [ 1-R-trans ]-Octahydro-2H-quinolizine-1-methanol, with the structure:
CH2OH | /\ H /\ / \|/ \ | | | | N | \ / \ / \/ \/
[ MI11 ] [ PJC ]

n. Wrong opinion. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. See Opiniaster. [ Obs. ]. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To hold or maintain persistently. [ Obs. ] Barrow. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Opinionated. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Opinionative. Glanvill. -- O*pin"ia*tive*ly, adv. -- O*pin"ia*tive*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. [ OF. opiniastre, F. opiniâtre. See Opinion. ] Opinionated. [ Obs. ] Sir W. Raleigh. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. One who is opinionated. [ Obs. ] South. Barrow. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. See Opiniaster. [ Obs. ] Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. opiniâtreté. ] Obstinacy in opinions. [ Written also opiniatry. ] [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Her.) An imaginary animal borne as a charge, having wings, an eagle's head, and a short tail; -- sometimes represented without wings. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Opinion. [ Obs. ] Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F., from L. opinio. See Opine. ] 1. That which is opined; a notion or conviction founded on probable evidence; belief stronger than impression, less strong than positive knowledge; settled judgment in regard to any point of knowledge or action. [ 1913 Webster ]

Opinion is when the assent of the understanding is so far gained by evidence of probability, that it rather inclines to one persuasion than to another, yet not without a mixture of incertainty or doubting. Sir M. Hale. [ 1913 Webster ]

I can not put off my opinion so easily. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The judgment or sentiment which the mind forms of persons or things; estimation. [ 1913 Webster ]

I have bought golden opinions from all sorts of people. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Friendship . . . gives a man a peculiar right and claim to the good opinion of his friend. South. [ 1913 Webster ]

However, I have no opinion of those things. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Favorable estimation; hence, consideration; reputation; fame; public sentiment or esteem. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Thou hast redeemed thy lost opinion. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

This gained Agricola much opinion, who . . . had made such early progress into laborious . . . enterprises. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Obstinacy in holding to one's belief or impression; opiniativeness; conceitedness. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. (Law.) The formal decision, or expression of views, of a judge, an umpire, a counselor, or other party officially called upon to consider and decide upon a matter or point submitted. [ 1913 Webster ]

To be of opinion, to think; to judge. --
To hold opinion with, to agree with. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Sentiment; notion; persuasion; idea; view; estimation. See Sentiment. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To opine. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Being, or capable of being, a matter of opinion; that can be thought; not positively settled; as, an opinionable doctrine. C. J. Ellicott. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Opinionated. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Stiff in opinion; firmly or unduly adhering to one's own opinion or to preconceived notions; obstinate in opinion. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. Conceitedly. Feltham. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An opinionist. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Unduly attached to one's own opinions; opinionated. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Of the nature of an opinion; conjectured. [ Obs. ] “Things both opinionative and practical.” Bunyan. -- O*pin"ion*a*tive*ly, adv. -- O*pin"ion*a*tive*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An opinionated person; one given to conjecture. [ Obs. ] South. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Opinionated; conceited. [ 1913 Webster ]

His opinioned zeal which he thought judicious. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. opinioniste. ] One fond of his own notions, or unduly attached to his own opinions. Glanvill. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. pampinus a tendril + -form. ] (Anat.) In the form of tendrils; -- applied especially to the spermatic and ovarian veins. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A system of education on so-called natural principles, attempted in Germany in the last century by Basedow, of Dessau. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An advocate of, or believer in, philanthropinism. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. pinus pine. ] (Chem.) Of or pertaining to the pine; obtained from the pine; formerly, designating an acid which is the chief constituent of common resin, -- now called abietic, or sylvic, acid. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Languishing; drooping; wasting away, as with longing. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Wasting; consuming. “The pining malady of France.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a pining manner; droopingly. Poe. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) A moth of the genus Lithophane, as Lithophane antennata, whose larva bores large holes in young peaches and apples. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OF. pignon a pen, F., gable, pinion (in sense 5); cf. Sp. piñon pinion; fr. L. pinna pinnacle, feather, wing. See Pin a peg, and cf. Pen a feather, Pennat, Pennon. ] 1. A feather; a quill. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A wing, literal or figurative. [ 1913 Webster ]

Swift on his sooty pinions flits the gnome. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The joint of bird's wing most remote from the body. Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A fetter for the arm. Ainsworth. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. (Mech.) A cogwheel with a small number of teeth, or leaves, adapted to engage with a larger wheel, or rack (see Rack); esp., such a wheel having its leaves formed of the substance of the arbor or spindle which is its axis. [ 1913 Webster ]

Lantern pinion. See under Lantern. --
Pinion wire, wire fluted longitudinally, for making the pinions of clocks and watches. It is formed by being drawn through holes of the shape required for the leaves or teeth of the pinions. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Pinioned p. pr. & vb. n. Pinioning. ] 1. To bind or confine the wings of; to confine by binding the wings. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To disable by cutting off the pinion joint. Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To disable or restrain, as a person, by binding the arms, esp. by binding the arms to the body. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Her elbows pinioned close upon her hips. Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Hence, generally, to confine; to bind; to tie up. “Pinioned up by formal rules of state.” Norris. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having wings or pinions. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) Any winged creature. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ So called from Pini, a mine in Saxony. ] (Min.) A compact granular cryptocrystalline mineral of a dull grayish or greenish white color. It is a hydrous alkaline silicate, and is derived from the alteration of other minerals, as iolite. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. pinus the pine tree. ] 1. (Paleon.) Any fossil wood which exhibits traces of having belonged to the Pine family. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Chem.) A sweet white crystalline substance extracted from the gum of a species of pine (Pinus Lambertina). It is isomeric with, and resembles, quercite. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Opinion previously formed; prepossession; prejudice. Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. With repening or murmuring. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Opinion, especially high opinion, of one's self; an overweening estimate of one's self or of one's own opinion. Collier. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having a high opinion of one's self; opinionated; conceited. South. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. spinifer; spina thorn + ferre to produce. ] Producing spines; bearing thorns or spines; thorny; spiny. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ NL.; L. spina spine + facere to make. ] 1. (Bot.) A genus of chiefly Australian grasses, the seeds of which bear an elastic spine. Spinifex hirsutus (black grass) and Spinifex longifolius are useful as sand binders. Spinifex paradoxusis a valuable perennial fodder plant. Also, a plant of this genus. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

2. Any of several Australian grasses of the genus Tricuspis, which often form dense, almost impassable growth, their leaves being stiff and sharp-pointed. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]