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PIGMENTS

Volume 8 · 68 words · 1778 Edition

preparations used by painters, dyers, &c. to impart colours to bodies, or to imitate particular colours. See Colour-Making, and Dyeing.

PI-BAHIROTH, (Moses); understood to be a mouth or narrow pass between two mountains, called Chiroth, or Eiroth, and lying not far from the bottom of the western coast of the Arabian gulf; before which mouth the children of Israel encamped, just before their entering the Red Sea, (Wells).