sumes the name of Piccolino. She sees
Fr['e]d['e]ric, who knows her not; but, struck with her beauty, makes a
drawing of her. Marth['e] discovers that the faithless Fr['e]d['e]ric is
paying his addresses to Elena (sister of the Duke Strozzi). She tells
the lady her love-tale; and Fr['e]d['e]ric, deserted by Elena, forbids
Piccolino (Marth['e]) to come into his presence again. The poor Swiss
wanderer throws herself into the Tiber, but is rescued. Fr['e]d['e]ric
repents, and the curtain falls on a reconciliation and approaching
marriage.

=Pickel-Herringe= (5 _syl._), a popular name among the Dutch for a
buffoon; a corruption of _pickle-h[:a]rin_ ("a hairy sprite"), answering
to Ben Jonson's _Puck-hairy_.

=Pickle= (_Peregrine_), a savage, ungrateful spendthrift, fond of
practical jokes, delighting in tormenting others; but suffering with ill
temper the misfortunes which result from his own wilfulness. His
ingratitude to his uncle, and his arrogance to Hatchway and Pipes, are
simply hateful.--T. Smollett, _The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle_
(1751).

=Pickwick= (_Samuel_), the chief character of _The Pickwick Papers_, a
novel by C. Dickens. He is general chairman of the Pickwick Club. A most
verdant, benevolent elderly gentleman, who, as member of a club
instituted "for the purpose of investigating the source of the Hampstead
ponds," travels about with three members of the club, to whom he acts
as guardian and adviser. The adventures they encounter form the subject
of the _Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club_ (1836).

The original of Seymour's picture of "Pickwick" was a Mr. John Foster
(_not_ the biographer of Dickens, but a friend of Mr. Chapman's, the
publisher). He lived at Richmond, and was "a fat old beau," noted for
his "drab tights and black gaiters."

=Pickwickian Sense= (_In a_), an insult whitewashed. Mr. Pickwick accused
Mr. Blotton of acting in "a vile and calumnious manner;" whereupon Mr.
Blotton retorted by calling Mr. Pickwick "a humbug," But it finally was
made to appear that both had used the offensive words only in a
parliamentary sense, and that each entertained for the other "the
highest regard and esteem." So the difficulty was easily adjusted, and
both were satisfied.

Lawyers and politicians daily abuse each other in a Pickwickian
sense.--Bowditch.

=Pic'rochole=, king of Lern[^e], noted for his choleric temper, his thirst
for empire, and his vast but ill-digested pr