- 3. Sharp, tart, severe, cutting, pointed, pungent.
Pique, n.
- 1. Resentment (slight), grudge, umbrage, offence, wounded pride, stinging vexation, displeasure, irritation,
spite.
- 2. Point, nicety, punctilio.
Pique, v. a.
- 1. Stimulate, incite, urge, instigate, spur, goad, set on, stir up.
- 2. Offend, displease, affront, provoke, incense, irritate, chafe, nettle, vex, fret, sting, wound, give offence
to, give umbrage to, pain.
Pique one’s self. Plume one’s self, take pride, pride one’s self, value one’s self.
Piquet, n. (Mil.) Picket.
Piracy, n.
- 1. Robbery on the high seas, sea robbery.
- 2. Literary theft.
Pirate, n. Corsair, buccaneer, picaroon, freebooter, sea-robber, sea-rover.
Piratic, Piratical, a. Robbing, predatory.
Pirn, n.
- 1. Bobbin, spool, reel, quill.
- 2. Fishing-reel.
Piscator, n. Fisherman, angler.
Piscatory, a. Angling, fishing.
Pisciculture, n. Fish-culture.
Pish, interj. Pshaw.
Pismire, n. Ant, emmet.
Pisolite, n. Calcareous tufa, pea-grit, pea-stone.
Pissasphalt, Pissasphaltum, n. [Written also Pisasphalt and Pisophalt.] Earth-pitch.