PIRON

PIRON. M. de Gerville, in Mem. Soc. Antiq. Norm. 1825 (vol. vii.),says, that the chateau of Pirou, in the department of La Manche, in Normandy, gave name to a family who settled in Devon and Somerset, and called their residence Stoke Piron. PISTOL. " A swaggering fellow. Perhaps from jjistolfo, explained by Florio, ' a roguing begger, a cantler, an upright man that liveth by cosenage.' Hence Shakspeare's character of that name." Halliwell. PITCAIRN. A village in the parish of

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