PINCH. To go into a tradesman's shop under the pretence of purchasing rings or other light articles, and while examining them to shift some up the sleeve of the coat. Also to ask for change for a guinea, and when the silver is received, to change some of the good shillings for bad ones; then suddenly pretending to recollect that you had sufficient silver to pay the bill, ask for the guinea again, and return the change, by which means several bad shillings are passed. To PINCH ON THE PARSON'S SIDE. To defraud the parson of his tithe. PINCHERS. Rogues who, in changing money, by dexterity of hand frequently secrete two or three shillings out of the change of a guinea. This species of roguery is called the pinch, or pinching lay. To PINK. To stab or wound with a small sword: probably derived from the holes formerly cut in both men and women's clothes, called pinking. Pink of the fashion; the top of the mode. To pink and wink; frequently winking the eyes through a weakness in them. PINKING-DINDEE. A sweater or mohawk. IRISH. PINS. Legs. Queer pins; ill shapen legs. PIPER. A broken winded horse. PISCINARIANS. A club or brotherhood, A.D. 1743. PISS. He will piss when he can't whistle; he will be hanged. He shall not piss my money against the wall; he shall not have my money to spend in liquor. He who once a good name gets, May piss a bed, and say he sweats. PISS-BURNED. Discoloured: commonly applied to a discoloured grey wig. PISS MAKER. A great drinker, one much given to liquor. PISS POT HALL. A house at Clapton, near Hackney, built by a potter chiefly out of the profits of chamber pots, in the bottom of which the portrait of Dr. Sacheverel was depicted. PISS PROPHET. A physician who judges of the diseases of his patients solely by the inspection of their urine. PISS-PROUD. Having a false erection. That old fellow thought he had an erection, but his--was only piss-proud; said of any old fellow who marries a young wife. PISSING DOWN ANY ONE'S BACK. Flattering him. PISSING PINS AND NEEDLES. To have a gonorrhea. PIT. A watch fob. He drew a rare thimble from the swell's pit. He took a handsome watch from the gentleman's fob. PIT. To lay pit and boxes into one; an operation in midwifery or copulation, whereby the division between the anus and vagina is cut through, broken, and demolished: a simile borrowed from the playhouse, when, for the benefit of some favourite player, the pit and boxes are laid together. The pit is also the hole under the gallows, where poor rogues unable to pay the fees are buried. PITT'S PICTURE. A window stopt up on the inside, to save the tax imposed in that gentleman's administration. PARTY WIT PIT-A-PAT. The palpitation of the heart: as, my heart went pit-a-pat. Pintledy-pantledy; the same. PITCH-KETTLED. Stuck fast, confounded.