A red color of low chroma but high luminosity, inclining toward purple, 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, 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, transitive verb_ To pierce with small holes; to cut the edge of, as cloth or paper, in small scallops or angles, To stab; to pierce as with a sword