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Picador
(||Pic`a*dor") n. [Sp.] 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.
Picamar
(Pic"a*mar`) n. [L. pix, picis, pitch + amarus bitter.] (Chem.) An oily liquid hydrocarbon
extracted from the creosote of beechwood tar. It consists essentially of certain derivatives of pyrogallol.
Picapare
(Pic"a*pare) n. (Zoöl.) The finfoot.
Picard
(Pic"ard) n. (Eccl. Hist.) One of a sect of Adamites in the fifteenth century; — so called from
one Picard of Flanders. See Adamite.
Picaresque
(Pic`a*resque") a. [F., fr. Sp. picaro rogue.] Applied to that class of literature in which the
principal personage is the Spanish picaro, meaning a rascal, a knave, a rogue, an adventurer.
Picariæ
(||Pi*ca"ri*æ) n. pl. [NL., fr. L. picus a woodpecker.] (Zoöl.) 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.
Picarian
(Pi*ca"ri*an) a. (Zoöl.) Of or pertaining to Picariæ. — n. One of the Picariæ.
Picaroon
(Pic`a*roon") n. [Sp. picaron, aug. of picaro roguish, n., a rogue.] One who plunders; especially,
a plunderer of wrecks; a pirate; a corsair; a marauder; a sharper. Sir W. Temple.
Picayune
(Pic`a*yune") n. [From the language of the Caribs.] A small coin of the value of six and a
quarter cents. See Fippenny bit. [Local, U.S.]
Picayunish
(Pic`a*yun"ish) a. Petty; paltry; mean; as, a picayunish business. [Colloq. U.S.]
Piccadil
(Pic"ca*dil Pic`ca*dil"ly) n. [OF. piccagilles the several divisions of pieces fastened together
about the brim of the collar of a doublet, a dim. fr. Sp. picado, p. p. of picar to prick. See Pike.] 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.
Piccage
(Pic"cage) n. [LL. piccadium, fr. F. piquer to prick.] (O. Eng. Law) Money paid at fairs for
leave to break ground for booths. Ainsworth.
Piccalilli
(Pic"ca*lil`li) n. A pickle of various vegetables with pungent species, — originally made in the
East Indies.
Piccolo
(||Pic"co*lo) n. [It., small.]
1. (Mus.) A small, shrill flute, the pitch of which is an octave higher than the ordinary flute; an octave
flute.
2. (Mus.) A small upright piano.
3. (Mus.) An organ stop, with a high, piercing tone.
Pice
(Pice) n. [Hind. paisa] A small copper coin of the East Indies, worth less than a cent. Malcom.
Picea
(||Pic"e*a) n. [L., the pitch pine, from pix, picis, pitch.] (Bot.) 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.
