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- English Word Piccadilly Definition A high, stiff collar for the neck; also, a hem or band about the skirt of a garment, -- worn by men in the 17th century.
- English Word Piccage Definition Money paid at fairs for leave to break ground for booths.
- English Word Piccalilli Definition A pickle of various vegetables with pungent species, -- originally made in the East Indies.
- English Word Piccolo Definition A small, shrill flute, the pitch of which is an octave higher than the ordinary flute; an octave flute.
- English Word Piccolo Definition A small upright piano.
- English Word Piccolo Definition An organ stop, with a high, piercing tone.
- English Word Pice Definition A small copper coin of the East Indies, worth less than a cent.
- English Word Picea Definition A genus of coniferous trees of the northen hemisphere, including the Norway spruce and the American black and white spruces. These trees have pendent cones, which do not readily fall to pieces, in this and other respects differing from the firs.
- English Word Picene Definition A hydrocarbon (C/H/) extracted from the pitchy residue of coal tar and petroleum as a bluish fluorescent crystalline substance.
- English Word Piceous Definition Of or pertaining to pitch; resembling pitch in color or quality; pitchy.
- English Word Pichey Definition A Brazilian armadillo (Dasypus minutus); the little armadillo.
- English Word Pichiciago Definition A small, burrowing, South American edentate (Chlamyphorus truncatus), allied to the armadillos. The shell is attached only along the back.
- English Word Pichurim bean Definition The seed of a Brazilian lauraceous tree (Nectandra Puchury) of a taste and smell between those of nutmeg and of sassafras, -- sometimes used medicinally. Called also sassafras nut.
- English Word Pici Definition A division of birds including the woodpeckers and wrynecks.
- English Word Pici Definition of Picus
- English Word Piciform Definition Of or pertaining to Piciformes.
- English Word Piciformes Definition A group of birds including the woodpeckers, toucans, barbets, colies, kingfishes, hornbills, and some other related groups.
- English Word Picine Definition Of or pertaining to the woodpeckers (Pici), or to the Piciformes.
- English Word Pick Definition To throw; to pitch.
- English Word Pick Definition To peck at, as a bird with its beak; to strike at with anything pointed; to act upon with a pointed instrument; to pierce; to prick, as with a pin.