Piney \Pin"ey\, a. [Of East Indian origin.] A term used in designating an East Indian tree (the {Vateria Indica} or piney tree, of the order {Dipterocarpe[ae]}, 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}.
{Piney thistle} (Bot.), a plant ({Atractylis gummifera}), from the bark of which, when wounded, a gummy substance exudes.
Piny \Pin"y\, a. Abounding with pines. [Written also {piney}.] ``The piny wood.'' --Longfellow.
But like many of his friends, Mickey drives his own four-wheel motorcycle through the piney woods that surround his home.
It's a sharp dogleg left with tall, piney forest guarding against shortcuts.
Mitchell Energy, for example, is developing a rustic-looking "new town" carved out of piney woods 30 miles north of downtown Houston.
Here in the piney woods of south-central Mississippi, church history relates, a wagon train stopped at a cool spring, a needed rest for the wandering Protestant pioneers and their oxen and their slaves.