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

Pignerol is a town of Italy in the province of Piedmont, in E. Long. 7. 15. Lat. 44. 45. situated on the river Chizou, 10 miles south-west of Turin, at the foot of the Alps, and the confines of Dauphiny. The town is small, but populous, and extremely well fortified by the king of Sardinia, since the treaty of Utrecht. It is defended by a citadel, on the top of the mountain, near which is the castle of Perouze, which was built at the entrance of the valley of that name.

Pignut, or Earthnut. See Bunium.