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One of the articles of the ftatutes of the ancient pin- 
makers of Paris was, that no matter (hould open more 
than one (hop for the fale of his wares, “except on New- 
year’s day, and the eve thereof.” This we mention in an 
age of luxury and profufion, to recall to mind the agree¬ 
able fimplicity of our forefathers, who contented them- 
felves with giving pins for new-year’s gifts, which, how¬ 
ever, when firft introduced about the beginning of the fix- 
teenth century, were found fo extremely neat, in compa- 
rifon with the wooden fkewers before in life, as to make 
them truly acceptable to the ladies, however trifling fuch 
friendly offerings might now appear. From thefe dona¬ 
tions, ■pin-money became a familiar expreflion for fmall 
prefents in general; and, from the like caufe, that term 
is now fometimes ufed for the fettlements made on fe¬ 
males, either through a neceflary caution of their parents 
and guardians, or the juftice of their conforts. 
We are informed that the pin-manufa&ure is lefs prof- 
perous than it was fome years ago. This'decline is partly 
owing to the diminiflied confumption of the article by 
our fair country-women, and of courfe partly to the ex- 
cefs of the quantity made above the regular demand; 
which has occafioned to the matter-manufafturer not only 
an inconvenience, but a difproportionate return of pro¬ 
fit for the capital which it employs. We hope to fee pins 
entirely difufed in the drefles of children, and firings ap¬ 
plied in every part. 
To PIN, v. a. To fatten with pins.—He mutt fet down 
the order, and as I may fay the carpenterlhip; he mutt 
-pin it [the coach] and fit it throughout. Harmar's Tv. of 
Beza, 1587.—The Ikilful artifan had taken it [a watch] 
in hand, and curioufly pinned the joints. Bp. llall's Se¬ 
lect Thoughts. —If a word or two more are added upon 
the chief offenders, ’tis only a paper pinn'd upon the 
bread. Pope. 
Not Cynthia when her manteau’s pinn’d awry, 
E’er felt fuch rage. Pope. 
To fatten; to make faft: 
Our gates, 
Which yet feem ftiut, we have but pir.n’d with ruffles; 
They’ll open of themfelves. Shakefpeare’s Macbeth. 
To join ; to fix; to fatten.—They help to cozen them¬ 
felves, by chufing to pin their faith on fuch expofitors as 
explain the (acred Scriptures in favour of thofe opinions 
that they beforehand have voted orthodox. Locke. 
I’ve learn’d how far I’m to believe 
Your pinnivy oaths upon your fleeve. Hudibras. 
[Pynban, Sax.] To fliut up ; to inclofe ; to confine : as, 
in pinfold. This is written alfo pen. —If all this be wil¬ 
lingly granted by us, which are accufed to pin the word 
of God in fo narrow room, let the caufe of the accufed 
be referred to the accufer’s confidence. Hooker. 
PIN, a city of China, of the fecond rank, in Chan- 
tong : 170 miles fouth-fouth-eaft of Pekin. Lat. 37. 34. N. 
Ion. 117. 40. E. 
PIN'-CASE, f A cafe to keep pins in : 
Some brought a filke lace, 
Some brought a pin-cafe. Skelton’s Poems. 
PIN'-CUSHION, f. A fmall bag fluffed with bran or 
wool, on which pins are ftuck.—She would ruin me in 
filks, were not the quantity that goes to a large pin-enjh- 
ion fufficient to make her a gown and petticoat. Addi- 
fon’s Guardian. —Thou art a retailer of phrafes, and doft 
deal in remnants of remnants, like a maker of pin-ctijhinns. 
Congreve. 
PIN'-DUST. f. Small particles of metal made by 
pointing pins.—The little parts of pin-dujl, when min¬ 
gled with fand, cannot, by their mingling, make it lighter. 
Digby. 
PIN-FEATH'ER, /. A feather juft as it begins to 
(hoot. 
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PIN-FEATH'ERED, adj. Not fledged; having the 
feathers yet only beginning to {hoot: 
We fee fome raw pin-feather'd thing 
Attempt to mount, and fights and heroes fing ; 
Who for falfe quantities was whipt at fchool. Dryden. 
PIN-HCF, a town of China, of the third rank, in Fo- 
kien : forty miles fouth-weft of Tchang-tcheou. 
PIN'-HOLE,/. A fmall hole, fuch as is made by the per¬ 
foration of a pin.—The breaft at firft broke in a fmall pin¬ 
hole. Wifeman. 
PIN-LI', a town of China, of the third rank, in Chen-fi: 
fifteen miles fouth of Hing-ngan. 
PIN-LON', a town of China, of the third rank, in 
Chang-fi, on the Hoang river: fifteen miles fouth-eaft of 
Kai. 
PIN'-MAKER, f One who makes pins. 
PIN'-MONEY, f. [“ There is a very ancient tax, in 
France, for providing the queen with pins, from whence 
the term of pin-money has been applied by us to that pro- 
vilion for married women, with which the hulband is not 
to interfere.” Barrington on the Statutes.] An annual 
fum fettled on a wife to defray her own charges.— It was 
ftipulated, that ftie (hould have 400I. a-year tor pin-mo¬ 
ney. Now, (hould a man, unacquainted with our cuftoms, 
be told thefums which are allowed in Great Britain, un¬ 
der the title of pin-money, what a prodigious confumption. 
of pins he would think there was in this ifland. Addifon’s 
Sped. N° 295. 
PIN-TCHIANG', a city of China, of the third rank, in 
Quang-fi : 1212 miles fouth-fouth-weft of Pekin. Lat. 
21. 9. N. Ion. 106. 4. E. 
PIN-and-WEB', f. A horny induration of the mem¬ 
branes of the eye, not much unlike a cataract. The pin- 
and-web is the fame with what weotherwife call the pan- 
nus, unguis, pterygium, &c. 
PIN'-WIRE, f. The wire from which pins are made. 
A thinner kind of brafs wire ufed by watch-makers to^ 
fatten their work together. 
PIN-YANG', a city of China, of the firft rank, in 
Chan-fi : 337 miles fouth-weft of Pekin. Lat. 36. 6. N. 
Ion. 111. o. E. 
PIN-YANG', a town of China, ,of the third rank, in 
Tche-kiang: twenty miles fouth of Ouen-tcheou. 
PIN-YAO', a town of China, of the third rank, in 
Chan-fi : twenty miles eaft-fouth-eaft of Fuen-tcheou. 
PIN-YU'EN, a town of China, of the third rank, in 
Chan-tong: twenty miles fouth-fouth-eaft of Te. 
PI'NA (Ruy de), one of the earlieft and beft of the 
Portuguefe hiliorians, who flourished in the latter part of 
the 15th and through half the following century. He 
was employed by Joam II. in many embaffies and many 
offices of confidence and honour, figned-the will of that 
king as public notary, was prefent at his death, and was 
the perfon who openedand publicly read his will. Ema¬ 
nuel, Joam’s heir, heaped more favours upon him, and 
made him Chronilta Mor, or chief chronicler, an office of 
which he had already performed the duties, and which 
was now refigned in his favour by Valeo Fernandez de 
Lucena. He iived fome years alter Emanuel; but nei¬ 
ther the year of his birth nor that of his death has been 
afeertained. He is fuppofed to have written the chroni¬ 
cles of Sancho I. and II. Alfonfo II. III. IV. and V. of 
Duarte, and Joam II. Some of thefe are dilputed, and 
faid to be the production of Fernam Lopes. Joam III. 
commiflloned him to write the chronicle of his father 
Emanuel, for which he had collected materials, as the 
mighty events of that extraordinary reign took place. 
The celebrated Albuquerque, looking to him as the his¬ 
torian of his vidlories. Cent him a prefent of jewels. “He, ’ 
faid his rival, Damian de Goes, “had the ruby rings, and 
I had the trouble.” Ruy de Pina, fays Mr. Southey, 
might have been called a chronicler of firft rate merit, it 
Fernam Lopes had never written, who is infinitely the 
beft of all chroniclers. But, though coming immediately 
after 
