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PIQUANT, a. pik'ant. 1. Pricking; stimulating to the tongue; as rock as piguant ...
PIQUANTLY, adv. pik'antly. With sharpness or pungency; tartly.
PIQUE, n. peek. An offense taken; usually, slight anger, irritation or displeasu...
PIQUED, pp. pee'ked. Irritated; nettled; offended; excited.
PIQUEER. [See Pickeer .]
PIQUEE'RER,n. A plunderer; a freebooter. [See Pickeerer.]
PIQUET. [See Picket .] PIQUET , n. piket'. A game at cards played between two pe...
PIQUING, ppr. pee'king. Irritating; offending; priding.
PI'RACY, n. [L. piratica, from Gr. to attempt, to dare, to enterprise, whence L....
PIRAGUA, n. pirau'gua. This word is variously written, periagua or pirogue. The ...
PI'RATE, n. [L. pirata.] 1. A robber on the high seas; one that by open violence...
PI'RATED, pp. Taken by theft or without right.
PIRAT'ICAL, a. [L. piraticus.] Robbing or plundering by open violence on the hig...
PIRAT'ICALLY, adv. by piracy.
PI'RATING, ppr. Robbing on the high seas; taking without right, as a book or wri...
PIROGUE piro'ge