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Definition of Piney
1. a. See Piny.
2. a. A term used in designating an East Indian tree (the Vateria Indica or piney tree, of the order Dipterocarpeæ, which grows in Malabar, etc.) or its products.
Definition of Piney
1. Adjective. (alternative spelling of piny) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Piney
1. piny [adj PINIER, PINIEST] - See also: piny
Medical Definition of Piney
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A term used in designating an East Indian tree (the Vateria Indica or piney tree, of the order Dipterocarpeae, which grows in Malabar, etc) or its products. Piney dammar, Piney resin, Piney varnish, a pellucid, fragrant, acrid, bitter resin, which exudes from the piney tree (Vateria Indica) when wounded. It is used as a varnish, in making candles, and as a substitute for incense and for amber. Called also liquid copal, and white dammar. Piney tallow, a solid fatty substance, resembling tallow, obtained from the roasted seeds of the Vateria Indica; called also dupada oil.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Piney
Literary usage of Piney
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. St. Nicholas by Mary Mapes Dodge (1879)
"There was no help for it, piney seemed so very determined; and so Kyle went ...
he was compelled to add : "Hold on, piney, if his boat had rocked like that, ..."
2. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1919)
"Accordingly a request from the piney Mining Company to advance money to meet one
of its pay rolls was refused by the Maryland Coal & Coke Company, ..."
3. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1896)
"16, 1889, read before our Society an extended report of his investigations in
the quartzite boulder quarry at piney Branch, which was published in the ..."
4. Chemical Technology and Analysis of Oils, Fats, and Waxes by Julius Lewkowitsch (1904)
"Italian—Sego di piney. For tables of constants see p. 724. This fat is obtained
from the seeds of Valeria indica, ..."
5. Four Years in Secessia: Adventures Within and Beyond the Union Lines by Junius Henri Browne (1865)
"Passage of the piney and Stone Mountains.—Crossing the Watauga River.—Invitation
to a Frolic.—Peculiar Reason for our Declination. ..."
6. Life and Papers of A.L.P. Green, D.D. by William M. Green (1877)
"THE piney-woods broker was a remarkable man in several respects. ... This piney-woods
broker was singular in another particular—he loved a dram; ..."
7. Massacres of the Mountains: A History of the Indian Wars of the Far West by Jacob Piatt Dunn (1886)
"Some six miles west of it the Big piney comes down in a northeast course, till
it passes piney Island; then it turns to the southeast and flows in a ..."
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