P I N 
the pinnte which adorned their helmets, and bear them 
off in triumph, as marks of victory. 
PINNOTE'RES. See Pinna. 
PIN'NOW, a town of Hinder Pomerania : fix miles 
north-eaft of Plate. 
PIN'NOW, a lake of Brandenburg, in the Middle 
Mark, near Uranienberg. 
PINO'LA, or Pingola, a town of Mexico, in the pro¬ 
vince of Guatimala : feventy-five miles ealt of Guate¬ 
mala. 
PINOLS', a town of France, in the department of the 
Upper Loire, and chief place of a canton, in the diftridt of 
Brioude. The place contains 747, and the canton 3580, 
inhabitants, in nine communes. 
Pl'NON, [Heb. pearl.] A man’s name. 
PI'NOS, a town of Spain, in the province of Grenada : 
five miles ealt of Grenada.- 
PI'NOS, an ifiand fimated near the fouth coaft of 
Cuba, in its form refemblinga horfe-fhoe, about feventy- 
five miles in circumference, mountainous, and covered 
with pines. Lat. 21. 32. N. Ion. 83.10. W. 
PI'NOS. See Pines. 
PI'NOSA, a town of the ifland of May. 
PINS'HOYVITZ, a town of Bohemia, in the circle of 
Leitmeritz : feven miles fouth of Aufiig. 
PINSK, a town of Rufiian Lithuania, in the palatinate 
of Brzefc, furrounded by morafles. There are a great 
number of Jews among the inhabitants, and the Greeks 
have a bifiiop here: the chief manufacture is dreffmg 
Ruffian leather. It is eighty-four miles ealt of Brzefc, 
and 100 fouth-fouth-eaft of Grodno. Lat. 52. 12. N. Ion. 
25. 53. E. 
PIN'SON, f. [from the Lat. pinfo, to ftamp.] A kind 
of fhoes ; a pump. Phillips. 
PIN'SOR, _/i [from the Lat. pinfo, to knead.] A baker. 
Cole. 
PIN'SSON (Francis), a learned jurift, fon of a profef- 
for of law of the fame name, was born at Bourges in 1612. 
He was admitted an advocate in the parliament of Paris 
in 1633 ; and pleaded at the Chatelet and before the par¬ 
liament. He particularly applied to the law of benefices, 
in which he was regarded as an oracle, and which he 51 - 
luftrated by feveral learned works. Of thefe were, 1. 
Traite des Benefices, 1654; a large work, begun by his 
maternal grandfather Antony Bengy, profeffor at Bourges, 
and finifhed by himfelf. 2. La Pragmatique Sanflion de 
St. Loins, & cel 1 e de Charles VII. avec Commentaires, 
1666, folio. 3. Notes fommaires furies Indults accordes 
a Louis XIV. &c. 4. Traite des Regales, 2 vols.4to. 1688; 
a very learned and ufeful performance. He alfo affifted 
in the revifion of the works of De Mornac and Du Mou¬ 
lin. This induftrious and valuable writer died at Paris 
in 1691. 
PINS'WELL, a village of Glouceflerfliire, in the parifh 
of Cubberley, from whence there is a profpedt of near 
lixty miles of country. Here was an ancient chapel, 
whofe very foundations have difappeared. 
PINT, /, [from the Gr. wwa;, to drink.] Half a quart-; 
in medicine, twelve ounces; a liquid meafure.—Well, 
you’ll not believe me generous, till I crack half a pint 
with you at my,own charges. Dryden. 
The Englifh pint is three-fold; the one for vvine-mea- 
fure, another for.beer and ale meafure, and a third for 
dry meafure. The wine-pint is faid to contain a full 
pound, avoirdupois, of common running water ; content 
2Sf cubic inches. In the Englifh ale and beer meafure, 
the pint contains 35$ cubic.al inches. 
As to the pint ufed in Scotland, there are different opi¬ 
nions concerning the number of cubical inches it contains. 
Dr. Gregory makes them 109 ; others, from feveral care¬ 
ful menfurations of the llandard kept at Edinburgh, make 
the Scotch pint to contain io3’4; and thofe in common 
ufe are faid to contain between 105 and 106 cubical 
inches. Another experiment was made with a cafk, 
which was found to contain 46I Scotch pints, and 18A- 
Vol. XX. No. 1383. 
PIN 469 
Englifh ale gallons. Suppofing this menfuration juft, the 
Scotch pint will be to the Englifh ale-gallon as 289 to 750 ; 
and, if the Englifh ale-gallon be fuppofed to contain 282 
cubical inches, the Scotch pint will contain io 8'664 fuch 
inches. The Scotch pint, according tb the ftandard fter- 
ling jug, is 103*4 Englifh cubic inches: hence 105 Scotch 
pints 2=47 Englifh w ine-gallons, and 11 Scotch pints 222 6 
Englifh ale-gallons. The Scotch quart is commonly rec¬ 
koned about -jVh lefs than the Englifh wine-gallon, and 
about 5th lefs than the Englifh ale-gallon ; and 1 pint = 
2 choppins; and 1 choppin = 2 mutchkins; and 1 mutch- 
kin 2= 4 gills. 
The Paris pint, according to the old fyftern, is eflimated 
at one-fixth of the ancient congius, and contains two 
pounds of common water, and is therefore nearly equal to 
an Englifh wine-quart; it is divided intochopines, which 
fotne call feptiers; the feptierinto two demi-feptiers; the 
demi-feptier into tw'o poiffons, each poiffon containing fix 
cubic inches. Two pints make a quart, (quarteau,) 
which fotne call a pot. The pint of St. Denis is almoff 
double that of Paris. 
At Genoa, 100 pinte, wine-meafure, are equal to a 
barrili — a mezzarola 1= about 39 Englifh gallons. The 
pint, therefore, contains about 3^ pints Englifh. 
When (hall one weight, one meafure, and one coin, 
The univerfe in harmony conjoin ? 
PINTA'DO-BIRD, f. A bird of South America; not 
theNumidia, but probably the Procellaria Capenfis.—We 
faw a great many pintado-birds, which are prettily fpotted 
with black and white, and conlfantly on the wing, though 
they frequently appear as if they were walking on the 
water. Hawkefworth’s Voyages. 
PIN'TARD’s SOUND, a bay on the weft coaft of 
North America. Lat. 50. 56. N. 
PINTCHLU'CO RIV'ER, a large branch of the Chata 
Uche, the upper part of Appalachicola River. 
PiN'TIA, a town of Spain, now fuppofed to be Vallo- 
dolid. 
PIN'TO, a town of Spain, in New Caftile: nine miles 
fouth of Madrid. 
PIN'TO (Fernam Mendes), a famous traveller in no 
good odour for veracity. He wrote the hiftory of his 
adventures to amufe his children while they learnt to 
read manufcript, and it was not perhaps intended for the 
prefs. The papers were, however, arranged and pub- 
lifhed by Francifco de Andrade in 1614, after his death; 
and probably many years after it, for Pinto returned to 
Portugal in 1558. The book has not been without its 
advocates; it is certain that the author had been in the 
countries which he defcribes, but it is equally certain 
that many of his defcriptions are altogether imaginary. 
It is much to be regretted tiiat this author ftioufd have 
adulterated fo much curious and important matter with 
idle fidlions, and thofe fo engrafted and incorporated with 
truth, that it is impoffible in many inftances to feparate 
the web from the embroidery. Pinto at one time en¬ 
tered among the Jefuits at Malacca, and the earlielt 
account of his travels is to be found in the firft collection 
of their letters publifhed in Italian at Venice 1565, in a 
letter written by him from their convent at Malacca, 
lie was prefent at the death of St. Francifco Xavier; and 
Lucena derived much information for his life of that 
faint from papers which he procured from the widow of 
Pinto. His travels have been tranflated into moft Euro¬ 
pean languages, and twice publifhed in Englifh. 
PIN'TO (Hedior), a learned Portuguefe Jeronymite 
in the 16th century', was a native of Covilhaa in the 
diocefe of Guards, thedaleof whofe birth is not recorded. 
He purfued his liudies for fome time at the nniverfity of 
Coimbra, and afterwards at that of Salamanca in Spain, 
principally with the defign of qualifying himfelf for the 
legal profe'ffion ; but he afterwards changed his views, 
and embraced the religious life among the monks of the 
order of Sr. Jerome. He devoted eisht years to the ftudy 
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