infant boy, and sent
him to England to be brought up, under the name of Barnstable. When
young Barnstable was a lieutenant in the British navy, Colonel Howard
seized him as a spy, and commanded him to be hung to the yardarm of an
American frigate, called the _Alacrity_. At this crisis, "the pilot"
informed the colonel that Barnstable was his own son, and the father
arrived just in time to save him from death.

=Pilpay'=, the Indian AEsop. His compilation was in Sanskrit, and entitled
_Pantschatantra_.

It was rumored he could say ...
All the "Fables" of Pilpay.

Longfellow, _The Wayside Inn_ (prelude).

=Pilum'nus=, the patron god of bakers and millers, because he was the
first person who ever ground corn.

Then there was Pilumnus, who was the first to make cheese, and
became the god of bakers.--Ouida, _Ariadn[^e]_, i. 40.

=Pinabello=, son of Anselmo (king of Maganza). Marphi'sa overthrew him,
and told him he could not wipe out the disgrace till he had unhorsed a
thousand dames and a thousand knights. Pinabello was slain by
Brad'amant.--Ariosto, _Orlando Furioso_ (1516).

=Pinac=, the lively, spirited fellow-traveller of Mirabel, "the wild
goose." He is in love with the sprightly Lillia-Bianca, a daughter of
Nantolet.--Beaumont and Fletcher, _The Wild Goose Chase_ (1652).

=Pinch=, a schoolmaster and conjuror, who tries to exorcise Antiph'olus
(act iv. sc. 4).--Shakespeare, _Comedy of Errors_ (1593).

_Pinch_ (_Tom_), clerk to Mr. Pecksniff "architect and land surveyor."
Simple as a child, green as a salad, and honest as truth itself. Very
fond of story-books, but far more so of the organ. It was the seventh
heaven to him to pull out the stops for the organist's assistant at
Salisbury Cathedral; but when allowed, after service, to finger the
notes himself, he lived in a dreamland of unmitigated happiness. Being
dismissed from Pecksniff's office, Tom was appointed librarian to the
Temple Library, and his new catalogue was a perfect model of
workmanship.

_Ruth Pinch_, a true-hearted, pretty girl, who adores her brother, Tom,
and is the sunshine of his existence. She marries John Westlock.--C.
Dickens, _Martin Chuzzlewit_ (1844).

=Pinchbeck.= Sham doctor and matrimonial agent in John Brougham's play,
_Playing With Fire_.

_Pinchbeck_ (_Lady_), with whom Don Juan placed Leila to be brought up.

Olden she was--but had been very young;
Virtuous she was--and had be