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after that incomparable writer, Ruy de Pina ftill appears 
an excellent hiftorian, and farfuperior toall who followed 
him. Gen. Biog. 
PINA CIA, / [Greek.] Among the Athenians, ta¬ 
blets of brafs whereon the names of all the perfons in 
each tribe duly qualified, and willing, to be judges or fe- 
nators of the Areopagus, being feverally written, they 
were call: into a veffel provided on purpofe ; and intoano- 
ther veffel were call the fame number of beans, a hundred 
of which were white, and all the reft black; then the 
names of the candidates and the beans were drawn, one 
by one; and thofe whole names were drawn out toge¬ 
ther with the white beans, were received into the fenate. 
In Solon’s time there were only four tribes, each of which 
eledted a hundred fenators; fo that the Areopagus con¬ 
fided of four hundred members; but, the number of 
tribes being afterwards increafed, the number of fenators 
was confequently augmented by fo many hundreds ; but 
the manner of election remained the fame. 
PINA'CLE (Le), a cape on the weft coaft of the ifland 
of Jerfey : one mile fouth of Grones. 
PINACOTHE'CA, J'. Among the ancients, a place 
where pidhires, ftatues, and other curiofities, w-ere kept. 
PINA'GRA, a ftrong mud-fort of Hindooftan, in Ba- 
ramaul, taken and deftroyed by the Britifh in 1790 : four¬ 
teen miles weft-fouth-weft of Darempour. 
PINANG', or Pu'lo Pinang. See Prince of Wales’s 
Island. 
PINANPI'RO, a town of South America, in the pro¬ 
vince of Quito: ten miles north-north-eaft of Quito. 
PINA'RA, in ancient geography, a town of Alia Mi¬ 
nor, being one of the largeft in Lycia. It is placed by 
Strabo in the interior of this province, at the foot of 
Mount Cragus.—A town of Alia, in the northern part 
of Ccelefyria, upon the Gindarus, according to Pliny. 
Ptolemy places it in Pieria of Syria.—An ifland of the 
iEgean fea, upon the coaft of AUtolia. 
PINA'RII,/. Among the Romans, an order of priefts 
belonging to Hercules, who offered facrifices to that god 
in a folemn manner every year. They were in this fer- 
vice connected with the Potitii. 
PIN'ARUS, or Pindus, now Delifou, a river flowing 
between Cilicia and Syria, which rofe in Mount Amanus, 
and, purfuing its courfe between two chains of thefe 
mountains, difcharged itfelf into the Mediterranean in 
the ftrait where was the bay of Iffus, in the gulf of 
Ifiicus. 
PI'NAS, a town of Spain, in Catalonia: feven miles 
north-north-weft of Motril. 
PI'NAS (John), a painter of hiftory, portrait, and 
landfcape, born at Haerlem about the year 1596. He 
travelled to Italy for improvement, and afterwards ob¬ 
tained confiderable reputation.—He had a brother of the 
name of Jacques, who pradtifed in the fame ftyle as John, 
but not with equal fuccefs. 
PI'NAS I'SLAND, an ifland on the coaft of the gulf of 
Honduras, fituated off Trivigillo-bay. 
PI'NAS POI'NT, the eaftern point of Panama-bay. 
Lat. 6. 15. N. Ion. 80. 30. W. The port of this name is 
on the fame fouth-weft coaft of the ifthmus of Darien, 
near the point. The whole coaft fouthward to Cape Co- 
rientes abounds with pine-trees, whence the name. 
PINASTEL'LA,/ in botany. See Hippuris. 
PINAS'TER, /. [Latin.] The wild pine. SeePiNUS. 
The holly arm’d with gold and filver fpines. 
The branch’d pinajler, and the fir that fhines. Anonymous. 
PIN'BURY, a village in Gloucefterfliire, near Dun- 
tefbourn, to which parilh it is a hamlet. Here are the 
remains of a camp in the midft of a park that formerly 
rtiade part of the manor. There is an ancient chapel in 
this hamlet, and fome old foundations near it. 
PIN'CERS, J. [ pincette , Fr.] An inftrument by which 
nails are drawn, or any thing is griped which requires 
to be held hard : 
As fuperfluous flefh did rot, 
Amendment ready ftill at hand did wait, 
To pluck it out with pincers fiery hot, 
That foon in him was left no one corrupt iot. Spenfer. 
The claw of an animal.—Every ant brings a fmall par¬ 
ticle of that earth in her pincers, and lays it by the hole. 
Addifon’s Guardian. 
■ To PINCH, v. a. [ pincer , Fr.] To fqueeze between 
the fingers or with the teeth : 
When the dodlor fpies his vantage ripe 
To pinch her by the hand. 
The maid hath given confent to go with him. Shakcfp. 
To hold hard with an inftrument. To fqueeze the ilefh 
till it is pained or livid.—He would pinch the children in 
the dark fo hard, that he left the print in black and blue. 
Arbuthnot. 
Thou fhalt he pinch'd 
As thick ns honey-combs, each pinch more flinging 
Than bees that made them. S/takeJpeare’s 2 'empejl. 
To prefs between hard bodies. To gall ; to fret.-—As 
they pinch one another by the difpofition, he cries out. 
No more. Shakefpeare's Ant. and Cleop. —To gripe: to op- 
prefs; to ftraiten.— Want of room upon the earth pinch¬ 
ing a whole nation, begets the remedilefs war; vexing 
only fome number of particulars, it draws on the 
arbitrary. Ralegh's Efj'ays. 
She pinch'd her belly with her daughter’s too. 
To bring the yearabout with much ado. Dryden. 
To diftrefs; to pain.—Avoid the pinching cold and fcorch- 
ing heat. Milton’s P. L. 
Afford them flielter from the wintry winds ; 
The fharp year pinches. Thomfon's Autumn. 
To prefs; to drive into difficulties.—The beaver, when 
he finds himfelf hard pinch'd, bites ’em off, and, leaving 
them to his purfuers, laves himfelf. L’EJlrange. —To try 
thoroughly; to force out what is contained within.— 
This is the way to pinch the queftion ; therefore let what 
will come of it, I will ftand the teft of your method. Col¬ 
lier. —In mufic, to ufe the fingers inftead of the bow, to 
make the chords of an inftrument found.—-There are 
fome chord-inftruments which have no bow', and which 
are played only by pinching, as the lute, guitar, &c. and 
fometimes thofe with which the bow is generally ufed 
are pinched, as the violin, and violoncello; and this 
method of playing is marked in the Italian by the word 
pizzicato. Chambers. 
To PINCH, v. n. To adl with force, fo as to be felt; 
to bear hard upon ; to bepuzzling.—A difficulty pincheth, 
nor will it eafily be refolved. Glauville. 
Know with an equal hand to hold the fcale, 
See where the realons pinch and where they fail. Dryd. 
To fp^re; to be frugal.—There is that waxeth rich by his 
warinefs and pinching. Ecclus. xi. 18. 
The poor, that fcarce have wherewithal to eat, 
Will pinch and make the finging-boy a treat. Dryden. 
PINCH,/, [pitgon, Fr. from the verb.] A painful 
fqueeze with the fingers : 
If any ftraggler from his rank be found, 
A pinch mult for the mortal fin compound. Dryden. 
A gripe 5 a pain given : 
There cannot be a pinch in death > 
More fharp than this is. Shakefpeare's Cymbeline. 
Oppreffion; diftrefs inflidled.—A farmer was put to Rich 
a pinch in a hard winter, that he was forced to feed his 
family upon the main ftock. L’EJirange. 
Return to her ! No, I rather choofe 
To be a comrade with the wolf and owl, 
Neceffity’s fharp pinch. Shakejpeare's K. Lear. 
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