=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 £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 characters in a morris-dance. So have I seen Tom Piper stand upon our village green, Backed with the May-pole. William Browne, _Shepherd’s Pipe_ (1614).