pink

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun Any of a group of colors reddish in hue, of medium to high lightness, and of low to moderate saturation.
• noun Any of various plants of the genus Dianthus, such as sweet William, often cultivated for their showy, fragrant, usually pink, red, or white flowers.
• noun Any of several other plants in the pink family, such as the wild pink.
• noun A flower of any of these plants.
• noun The highest or best degree.
• noun Light-colored trousers formerly worn as part of the winter semidress uniform by US Army officers.
• noun The scarlet coat worn by fox hunters.
• noun Slang A pinko.
• adjective Of the color pink.
• adjective Slang Having moderately leftist political opinions.
• noun A small sailing vessel with a sharply narrowed stern and an overhanging transom.
• transitive verb To stab lightly with a pointed weapon; prick.
• transitive verb To decorate with a perforated pattern.
• transitive verb To cut with pinking shears.

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun A vessel or boat with a very narrow stern. Now called pinky.
• To pierce; puncture; stab with a rapier or some similar weapon; make a hole or holes in.
• To decorate with punctures or holes; tattoo.
• Specifically
• 3. To decorate, as any garment or article made of textile fabric or leather, by cutting small holes of regular shape in succession, scallops, loops, etc., at the edge, or elsewhere.
• To make a hole.
• noun Same as moss-pink.
• noun locally, one of several other plants, namely: in Massachusetts, the wild pink, also the fringed polygala (see Polygala, 1); in Illinois, the scarlet painted cup, Castilleja coccinea; in the southeastern States, one of the wake-robins, Trillium stylosum.
• noun Same as grass-pink (which see, under pink).
• noun A plant of the bunch-flower family, Helonias bullata, found locally in swamps from southern New York to Virginia, and said also to occur on the higher Alleghanies. Its raceme of purple flowers is borne on a stout scape rising from a tuft of leaves which elongate after flowering-time.
• A salacious story.
• noun A puncture or small hole made by some sharp slender instrument such as a rapier or dagger; a stab-wound.
• noun A small hole or eyelet punched in silk or other material with a pinking-iron; a scallop.
• noun A plant of the genus Dianthus.
• noun One of various plants of other genera, with some resemblance to the true pinks. See Lychnis, 2, moss-pink, and phrases below.
• noun A red color of low chroma but high luminosity, inclining toward purple.
• noun In painting, any one of several lakes of a yellow or greenish-yellow color, prepared by precipitating vegetable juices on a white base, such as chalk or alumina.
• noun A red coat or badge, or a person wearing one; specifically, a scarlet hunting-coat.
• noun A small fish, so called from its color.
• noun A young grayling.
• noun A young salmon before its entry into the sea. See cut under parr.
• noun A flower; in a figurative use, a beauty; hence, the flower or highest type or example of excellence in some particular; a supremely excellent or choice example or type of excellence: as, the pink of perfection.
• noun Blood.
• noun Sometimes same as pinkroot, 1 (United States), and cypress-vine (West Indies).
• Of the color or hue called pink.
• To tinge or dye with a pink color.
• noun A finch; the chaffinch or spink, Fringilla cœlebs.
• noun A game at cards: the same as post, 11.
• To wink; peep slyly.
• noun Small: said of the eyes and of other things.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• transitive verb To pierce with small holes; to cut the edge of, as cloth or paper, in small scallops or angles.
• transitive verb To stab; to pierce as with a sword.
• transitive verb obsolete To choose; to cull; to pick out.
• noun (Naut.) A vessel with a very narrow stern; -- called also pinky.