ce death with calm certainty of an independent
burial in the Pingree lot.--Mary E. Wilkins, _A Humble Romance, and
Other Stories_ (1887).

=Pinkerton= (_Miss_), a most majestic lady, tall as a grenadier, and most
proper. Miss Pinkerton kept an academy for young ladies on Chiswick
Mall. She was "the Semiramis of Hammersmith, the friend of Dr. Johnson,
and the correspondent of Mrs. Chapone." This very distinguished lady
"had a Roman nose, and wore a solemn turban." Amelia Sedley was educated
at Chiswick Mall academy, and Rebecca Sharp was a pupil-teacher
there.--Thackeray, _Vanity Fair_, i. (1848).

=Pinnit= (_Orson_), keeper of the bears.--Sir W. Scott, _Kenilworth_
(time, Elizabeth).

=Pinto= (_Ferdinand Mendez_), a Portuguese traveller, whose "voyages" were
at one time wholly discredited, but have since been verified
(1509-1583).

Ferdinand Mendez Pinto was but a type of thee, thou liar of the
first magnitude.--W. Congreve, _Love for Love_ (1695).

=Pious= (_The_), Ernst I., founder of the house of Gotha (1601-1674).

Robert, son of Hugues Capet (971, 996-1031).

Eric IX. of Sweden (*, 1155-1161).

=Pip=, the hero of Dickens's novel called _Great Expectations_. His
family name was Pirrip, and his Christian name Philip. He was enriched
by a convict named Abel Magwitch; and was brought up by Joe Gargery, a
smith, whose wife was a woman of thunder and lightning, storm and
tempest. Magwitch, having made his escape to Australia, became a sheep
farmer, grew very rich, and deposited [pounds]500 a year with Mr.
Jaggers, a lawyer, for the education of Pip, and to make a gentleman of
him. Ultimately, Pip married Estella, the daughter of Magwitch, but
adopted from infancy by Miss Havisham, a rich banker's daughter. His
friend, Herbert Pocket, used to call him "Handel."--C. Dickens, _Great
Expectations_ (1860).

=Pipchin= (_Mrs._), an exceedingly "well-connected lady," living at
Brighton, where she kept an establishment for the training of
_enfants_. Her "respectability" chiefly consisted in the circumstance of
her husband having broken his heart in pumping water out of some
Peruvian mines (that is, in having invested in these mines and been let
in). Mrs. Pipchin was an ill-favored old woman, with mottled cheeks and
grey eyes. She was given to buttered toast and sweetbreads, but kept her
_enfants_ on the plainest possible fare.--C. Dickens, _Dombey and Son_
(1846).

=Piper= (_Tom_), one of the