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 234 Pillion. The tin which remains in the scoria or slags after it is first smelted, which must be separated and re-melted. Pryce. Pillum^ Pillem, or Pilm. Dust. Film is a Celtic Cornish word, and means according to Pryce, " dust flying like flour." Pil-jack, or Piliack. A low, mean fellow. Davy, Zennor, Pimpey. A weak cider made by adding water to the apple "cheese." Q.v. It is also called "beverage." Q.v. Pin^ or Pin-bone. The hip. The hip-joint. Pen- clun is the Celtic Cornish word for the hip-joint. Pen the head, and clun, the hip, or haunch. Pinnick, or Punick. An undergrown weakly child. Puny. Pinnickin. Very small and weakly. " What a poor pinnickin child ! " Pinni-menny. This was, (and is now by a few) the name given to the little chapel-well near Trenance bridge, St. Austell. Young people wanting to know their fortune, dropped pins into the well and "wished." Menny, or Mynny, in Celtic Cornish means, to will, to wish. Bernard Quaritch, in a review of Elton's " Origins of English History,'' says, "There is ample proof that the pin is not a mere offering to the spirit of the well, such as a rag, a pebble, or a small coin might be, but is flung in by way of curse, to injure the