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- English Word Piazzas Definition of Piazza
- English Word Pibcorn Definition A wind instrument or pipe, with a horn at each end, -- used in Wales.
- English Word Pibroch Definition A Highland air, suited to the particular passion which the musician would either excite or assuage; generally applied to those airs that are played on the bagpipe before the Highlanders when they go out to battle.
- English Word Pic Definition A Turkish cloth measure, varying from 18 to 28 inches.
- English Word Pica Definition The genus that includes the magpies.
- English Word Pica Definition A vitiated appetite that craves what is unfit for food, as chalk, ashes, coal, etc.; chthonophagia.
- English Word Pica Definition A service-book. See Pie.
- English Word Pica Definition A size of type next larger than small pica, and smaller than English.
- English Word Picador Definition A horseman armed with a lance, who in a bullfight receives the first attack of the bull, and excites him by picking him without attempting to kill him.
- English Word Picamar Definition An oily liquid hydrocarbon extracted from the creosote of beechwood tar. It consists essentially of certain derivatives of pyrogallol.
- English Word Picapare Definition The finfoot.
- English Word Picard Definition One of a sect of Adamites in the fifteenth century; -- so called from one Picard of Flanders. See Adamite.
- English Word Picaresque Definition Applied to that class of literature in which the principal personage is the Spanish picaro, meaning a rascal, a knave, a rogue, an adventurer.
- English Word Picariae Definition An extensive division of birds which includes the woodpeckers, toucans, trogons, hornbills, kingfishers, motmots, rollers, and goatsuckers. By some writers it is made to include also the cuckoos, swifts, and humming birds.
- English Word Picarian Definition Of or pertaining to Picariae.
- English Word Picarian Definition One of the Picariae.
- English Word Picaroon Definition One who plunders; especially, a plunderer of wrecks; a pirate; a corsair; a marauder; a sharper.
- English Word Picayune Definition A small coin of the value of six and a quarter cents. See Fippenny bit.
- English Word Picayunish Definition Petty; paltry; mean; as, a picayunish business.
- English Word Piccadil Definition Alt. of Piccadilly