The word means puffed chaps. Great Physignathos I from Pelus race, Begot in fair Hydromede sembrace. Pamell, Battle of the Frogs and Mice, i (about 1712). Pibrac S eigneur de), poet and diplomatist, author of Cinquante Quatrains (1574). Gorgibus bids his daughter to study Pibrac instead of trashy novels and poetry. Lisez-moi, comme il faut, au lieu de ces somettes, Les Quatrains de Pibrac, et les doctes Tablettes Du conseiller Matthieu; rouvrage est de valeur, ... La Guide des picheurs est encore un bon livre. Molifere, Sganarelle, i. 1(1660). (P iei TeM atthieu, poet and historian, wrote Quatrains de la Vanite du Monde, 1629.) Picanninies (4 syl), little children; the small fry of a village. West Indian Negroes. There were at the marriage the picanninies and the Jobl Uies, but not the Grand Panjandrum. Yonge. Pic atrix, the pseudonym of a Spanish monk; author of a book on demonology. When I was a student .. .that same Rev. Picatrix .. .was wont to tell us that devils did naturally fear the bright flashes of swords as much as he feared the splendor of the sun. Rabelais, Pantag ruel, iii. 23 (1545). Picciola, flower that, springing up in the court-yard of his prison, cheers and elevates the lonely life of the prisoner whom X. B. Saintine makes the hero of his charming tale, Picciola (1837). Piccolino, an opera by Mons. Guiraud (1875); libretto by MM. Sardou and Nuittier. This opera was first introduced to an English audience in 1879. The tale is this: Marthe, an orphan girl adopted by a Swiss pastor, is in love with Frederic A uvray, a young artist, who loved and left his love. Marthe plods through the snow from Switzerland to Rome to find her young artist, but, for gi-eater security, puts on boys clothes, and assumes the name of Piccolino. She sees Frederic, who knows her not; but, struck with her beauty, makes a drawing of her. Martha discovers that the fai(Typographical errors above are due to OCR software and don't occur in the book.)