half-crowns on the counter."--Foote, _The Patron_ (1764).

=Pug=, a mischievous little goblin, called "Puck" by Shakespeare.--B.
Jonson, _The Devil is an Ass_ (1616).

=Puggie-Orrock=, a sheriff's officer at Fairport.--Sir W. Scott, _The
Antiquary_ (time, George III.).

=Pul'ci= (_L._), poet of Florence (1432-1487), author of the
hero[:i]-comic poem called _Morgant[^e] Maggior[^e]_, a mixture of the
bizarre, the serious, and the comic, in ridicule of the romances of
chivalry. This _Don Juan_ class of poetry has since been called
_Bernesque_, from Francesco Berni, of Tuscany, who greatly excelled in
it.

Pulci was sire of the half-serious rhyme,
Who sang when chivalry was more quixotic,
And revelled in the fancies of the time,
True knights, chaste dames, huge giants, kings despotic.

Byron, _Don Juan_, iv. 6 (1820).

=Pulia'no=, leader of the Nasamo'ni. He was slain by Rinaldo.--Ariosto,
_Orlando Furioso_ (1516).

=Pumblechook=, uncle to Joe Gargery, the blacksmith. He was a well-to-do
corn-chandler, and drove his own chaise-cart. A hard-breathing,
middle-aged, slow man was uncle Pumblechook, with fishy eyes and sandy
hair, inquisitively on end. He called Pip, in his facetious way,
"six-pen'orth of h'pence;" but when Pip came into his fortune, Mr.
Pumblechook was the most servile of the servile, and ended every
sentence with, "May I, Mr. Pip?" _i.e_,[TN-111] have the honor of shaking
hands with you again.--C. Dickens, _Great Expectations_ (1860).

=Pumpernickel= (_His Transparency_), a nickname by which the _Times_
satirized the minor German princes.

Some ninety men and ten drummers constitute their whole embattled
host on the parade-ground before their palace; and their whole
revenue is supplied by a percentage on the tax levied on strangers
at the Pumpernickel kursaal.--_Times_, July 18, 1866.

=Pumpkin= (_Sir Gilbert_), a country gentleman plagued with a ward (Miss
Kitty Sprightly) and a set of servants all stage mad. He entertains
Captain Charles Stanley, and Captain Harry Stukely at Strawberry Hall,
when the former, under cover of acting, makes love to Kitty (an
heiress), elopes with her, and marries her.

_Miss Bridget Pumpkin_, sister of Sir Gilbert, of Strawberry Hall. A
Mrs. Malaprop. She says, "The Greeks, the Romans, and the Irish are
barbarian nations who had plays;" but Sir Gilbert says, "they were all
Jacobites." She speaks of "taking a d