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noun

Pica n.

(Zool.) The genus that includes the magpies.

(Med.) A vitiated appetite that craves what is unfit for food, such as clay, chalk, ashes, coal, etc.; chthonophagia.

Synonyms: allotriophagy.

(R. C. Ch.) A service-book. See Pie. (Obs.)

(Print.) A size of type next larger than small pica, and smaller than English. Note: This line is printed in pica Note: Pica is twice the size of nonpareil, and is used as a standard of measurement in casting leads, cutting rules, etc., and also as a standard by which to designate several larger kinds of type, as double pica, two-line pica, four-line pica, and the like.

Small pica (Print.), a size of type next larger than long primer, and smaller than pica. Note: This line is printed in small pica

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Etymology of 'Pica'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Pica" Quotes from Famous Books

... dirt eating or clay-eating, called pica, is well authenticated in many countries. The Ephemerides contains mention of it; Hunter speaks of the blacks who eat potters' clay; Bartholinus describes dirt-eating as does also a Castro. Properly speaking, dirt-eating ...

— Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine • George M. Gould

... Englished by Charles B. McMichael (Boni and Liveright, Inc.). The present volume contains seven short stories by RubA(C)n Dario, Jacinto Octavio PicA cubedn, and Leopoldo Alas. They are wretchedly translated, but even in their present form one can divine the art of "The Death of the Empress of China" by the Nicaraguan RubA(C)n Dario, and "After the Battle" by the Spaniard Jacinto Octavio PicA cubedn. The other stories are of unequal value, ...

— The Best Short Stories of 1920 - and the Yearbook of the American Short Story • Various

... I don't know how to read or write; but, all the same, I know enough to see that M. Gille's sloping letters are the fathers of your Messrs. Didot's English running-hand. Here is the round-hand," he went on, taking up an unused pica type. ...

— Two Poets - Lost Illusions Part I • Honore de Balzac

... least doubt, not the least," replied Mr. Pica; and he so inflamed the imagination of Mr. Stubbs, that, strange as it may seem to the cautious reader, he wrote a check for the amount, merely taking the unendorsed note of Mr. Pica as security; then, hastening home, he told Mrs. Stubbs to brush ...

— Town and Country, or, Life at Home and Abroad • John S. Adams

... del Sol tenian mui grande de oro, i todo el servicio desta casa era de plata i oro, i tenian doze horones de plata blanca que dos hombres no abrazarian cada uno quadrados, i eran mas altos que una buena pica donde hechavan el maiz que havian de dar al Sol, segun ellos decian que comiese." Conq. ...

— The History Of The Conquest Of Peru • William H. Prescott

... better would it be if, instead of transferring them to a MS. book to be seen only by themselves, or perhaps a friend or two, they would forward them to a periodical, in which they might be enshrined in imperishable pica; to say nothing of the benefits such a course of proceeding would confer on those who might not have had the same facilities of gaining the information thus ...

— Notes & Queries, No. 4, Saturday, November 24, 1849 • Various

Words linked to "Pica" : em, magpie, Pica pica, bird genus, linear unit, Corvidae, in, en, geophagy, nut, inch, pica-pica, genus Pica, Pica pica hudsonia, family Corvidae, pica em, point