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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

[OE.

pinte

, F.

pinte

, fr. Sp.

pinta

spot, mark, pint, fr.

pintar

to paint; a mark for a pint prob. having been made on or in a larger measure. See

A measure of capacity, equal to half a quart, or four gills, – used in liquid and dry measures. See

Noun.

(Zool.)

The laughing gull.

[Prov. Eng.]

Noun.

Half a quart, or four gills. In medicine, twelve ounces. It is applied both to liquid and dry measure.