Pimento
(Pi*men"to) n. [Sp. pimiento, pimienta; cf. Pg. pimenta, F. piment; all fr. L. pigmentum a
paint, pigment, the juice of plants; hence, something spicy and aromatic. See Pigment.] (Bot.) Allspice; —
applied both to the tree and its fruit. See Allspice.
Pimlico
(Pim"li*co) n. (Zoöl.) The friar bird.
Pimp
(Pimp) n. [Cf. F. pimpant smart, sparkish; perh. akin to piper to pipe, formerly also, to excel. Cf.
Pipe.] One who provides gratification for the lust of others; a procurer; a pander. Swift.
Pimp
(Pimp), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Pimped (pimt; 215); p. pr. & vb. n. Pimping.] To procure women for
the gratification of others' lusts; to pander. Dryden.
Pimpernel
(Pim"per*nel) n. [F. pimprenelle; cf. Sp. pimpinela, It. pimpinella; perh. from LL. bipinnella,
for bipinnula two-winged, equiv. to L. bipennis; bis twice + penna feather, wing. Cf. Pen a feather.]
(Bot.) A plant of the genus Anagallis, of which one species (A. arvensis) has small flowers, usually
scarlet, but sometimes purple, blue, or white, which speedily close at the approach of bad weather.
Water pimpernel. (Bot.) See Brookweed.
Pimpillo
(||Pim"pil*lo) n. (Bot.) A West Indian name for the prickly pear (Opuntia); — called also pimploes.
Pimpinel
(Pim"pi*nel) n. [See Pimpernel.] (Bot.) The burnet saxifrage. See under Saxifrage.
Pimping
(Pimp"ing) a. [Cf. G. pimpelig, pimpelnd, sickly, weak.]
1. Little; petty; pitiful. [Obs.] Crabbe.
2. Puny; sickly. [Local, U.S.]
Pimple
(Pim"ple) n. [AS. pipelian to blister; cf. L. papula pimple.]
1. (Med.) Any small acuminated elevation of the cuticle, whether going on to suppuration or not. "All
eyes can see a pimple on her nose." Pope.
2. Fig.: A swelling or protuberance like a pimple. "A pimple that portends a future sprout." Cowper.
