Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Pint

Pint , noun

[Old English pinte, French pinte, from Sp. pinta spot, mark, pint, from pintar to paint; a mark for a pint prob. having been made on or in a larger measure. See Paint.]

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

Pint , noun

(Zoology) The laughing gull. [Provincial English]