=Pinchwife= (_Mr._), the town husband of a raw country girl, wholly unpractised in the ways of the world, and whom he watches with ceaseless anxiety. Lady Drogheda ... watched her town husband assiduously as Mr. Pinchwife watched his country wife.--Macaulay. _Mrs. Pinchwife_, the counterpart of Molière’s “Agnes,” in his comedy entitled _L’école des Femmes_. Mrs. Pinchwife is a young woman wholly unsophisticated in affairs of the heart.--Wycherly, _The Country Wife_ (1675). ⁂ Garrick altered Wycherly’s comedy to _The Country Girl_. =Pindar= (_Peter_), the pseudonym of Dr. John Wolcot (1738-1819). _Pindar_ (_The British_), Thomas Gray (1716-1771). On his monument in Westminster Abbey is inscribed these lines: No more the Grecian muse unrivalled reigns; To Britain let the nations homage pay: She felt a Homer’s fire in Milton’s strains, A Pindar’s rapture in the lyre of Gray. _Pindar_ (_The French_), (1) Jean Dorat (1507-1588); (2) Ponce Denis Lebrun (1719-1807). _Pindar_ (_The Italian_), Gabriello Chiabrera (1552-1637). =Pindar of England.= Cowley was preposterously called by the duke of Buckingham “The Pindar, Horace and Virgil of England.” Posterity has not endorsed this absurd eulogium (1618-1667). =Pindar of Wakefield= (_The_), George-a-Green, pinner of the town of Wakefield--that is, keeper of the public pound for the confinement of estrays.--_The History of George-a-Green, Pindar of the Town of Wakefield_ (time, Elizabeth). =Pindo´rus and Aride´us=, the two heralds of the Christian army in the siege of Jerusalem.--Tasso, _Jerusalem Delivered_ (1575). =Pine-Bender= (_The_), Sinis, the Corinthian robber who used to fasten his victims to two pine trees bent towards the earth, and leave them to be torn to pieces by the rebound. =Pingree= (_Nancy_), called “Old Lady Pingree” because of her pride and black lace turban. She lives by herself in the lower part of the old Pingree house, and is so poor that to give an egg to the lodgers above stairs is an act of self-denying generosity. She has money and burial-clothes laid away for her funeral, yet when the neighbor upstairs dies, Nancy “lends” it to the daughter to keep her mother out of the Potter’s field. A sudden rise in property brings Nancy a few hundreds, and enables her to face 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).