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 1653. Urquhart, Rabelais. 1. xlvii. Pinchpenny said to him we are here very ill provided of victuals.

1690. Crowne, Eng. Friar, ii. 1. 'We are my Lady Pinch-gut's men Sir.' 'Her men? no, her mice. We live on crumbs.'

1821. Scott, Pirate, vi. If this house be strewed in ruins before morning where would be the world's want in the niggardly pinchcommons by which it is inhabited.

1883. Clark Russell, Sailor's Language, s.v. Pinchgut. A mean purser.

Pinch-board, subs. phr. (American).—A swindling roulette table: see Pinch, verb.

Pinch-bottom (-buttock, or -cunt), subs. phr. (venery).—A whoremaster: see Mutton-monger.

Pincher, subs. phr. (political American).—A legislative measure calculated to secure a pecuniary reward to those interested in its rejection.

See Pinch, verb., and Pinch-*belly.

Pinch-gut-money, subs. phr. (old).—See quot.

c.1696. B. E., Dict. Cant. Crew, s.v. Pinch-gut-money, allowed by the King to the Seamen, that Serve on Bord the Navy Royal, when their Provision falls Short; also in long Voyages when they are forced to Drink Water instead of Beer.

Pinch-prick, subs. phr. (venery).—1. A whore; and (2) a wife that insists on her dues.

Pinch-wife, subs. phr. (venery).—A vigilant and churlish husband.

Pincushion. See Pin-case.

Pineapple, verb. (American).—To close-shave; to 'county-crop'; to shingle (q.v.).

Pine-top, subs. phr. (American).—Common whiskey: see Old Man's Milk.

Pine-tree money, subs. (old American).—Money coined in Massachusetts in 17th century: as bearing a figure resembling a pine-tree.—Bartlett.

Pine-tree State, subs. phr. (American).—Maine. [From its extensive pine forests.]

1888. Boston Transcript. The good old Pine-tree State is pretty well represented scarcely a town of any size but what contains one or more Maine men.

Pink, subs. (old).—1. A beauty: hence (2) a pattern or model: as a woman of fashion, a well-groomed man, the pick of the litter, a champion at sport, &c.—Grose (1785).

1595. Shakspeare, Romeo and Juliet, ii. 4, 4. I am the very pink of courtesy.

1602. Breton, Wonders, 7. He had a pretty pincke to his own wedded wife.

1621. Fletcher, Pilgrim, 1, 2. This is the prettiest pilgrim, The pink of pilgrims.

1693. Congreve, Old Batchelor, ii. 1. I am happy to have obliged the Mirrour of Knighthood and Pink of Courtesie in the age.

1708-10. Swift, Polite Conversation, i. Miss. Oh! Mr. Neverout; every body knows that you are the Pink of Courtesy.

1821. Egan, Life in London, ii. i. The lady and her scullion—the pink of the ton and his "rain-bow"— they are "all there."

1827. Lytton, Pelham, xl. Now, reely, Mr. Ritson, you, who are the pink of feeshion, ought to know better than I can.

3. (American cadet).—A bad report, e.g., 'There are several pinks against you.' Also as verb.