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Pippin
a name given to several varieties of apples. Normandy pippins are apples dried in the sun and stored for winter use.
Piracy
the act, practice, or crime of robbing on the high seas. Other offenses have, by various statutes, been made piracy, and liable to the same penalty. Thus trading with, or in any way aiding, known pirates, is piracy. So, too, any commander or seaman of a ship PISA
Pirai
or PIRAYA, the Serrasalmo Piraya, a voracious fresh-water fish of tropical America. It is three or four feet in length, and its jaws are armed with sharp lancet-shaped teeth, from which cattle when fording rivers sometimes suffer terribly.
Pirano
a city of Austria, situated on the Bay of Largone. It is in the former Crownland of Istria. There is a castle, dockyards, and the city before the World War had some commercial importance. Wine, oil, soap and chemical products were manufactured. The salt works are among the most important in Austria.
Pirmasens
a town of the Bavarian Palatinate, and formerly the chief town of the county of Hanau-Lichtenberg , 34 miles W. of Landau; chief manufactures, shoes and musical instruments. Close by, the Prussians under the Duke of Brunswick defeated the French commanded by Moreau on Sept. 14, 1793. Pop. about 40,000.
Pirot
a town of Servia, situated on the railroad from Belgrade to Sofia, near the Bulgarian frontier. Near the beginning of the World War the town was captured by an Austro-Germanic force. Pop. about 10,000.
Pisagua
a small port of the now Chilean province of Tarapacá, 40 miles N. of Iquique. It was bombarded and was the scene of much fighting during the Chilean civil war in 1891.
Piscataqua
a river which constitutes part of the boundary between Maine and New Hampshire, and forms at its mouth the excellent harbor of Portsmouth.
Pistole
a gold coin once current in Spain, France, and the neighboring countries; average value about $3.85.
Piston
in machinery, a device so fitted as to occupy the sectional area of a tube and be capable of reciproca-
Piso
an eminent Roman family, which produced some great men, as:
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LUCIUS, a senator, cus; on which account he self, A. D. 20. who attended the Emperor Valerian into Persia in 258. On the death of that emperor he assumed the imperial title; but was defeated by Valens, who put him to death in 261.