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PICKAPACK, adv. In manner of a pack. [Vulgar.]
PICK, v.t. [L. pecto.] 1. To pull off or pluck with the fingers something that g...
PIC'CADIL PICCADIL'LY PIC'CAGE, n. Money paid at fairs for breaking ground for b...
PICAROON', n. A plunderer; a pirate. This word is not applied to a highway robbe...
PI'CA, n. In ornithology, the pie or mag-pie, a species of Corvus. 1. In medicin...
PI'BROCH, n. A wild irregular species of music, peculiar to the Highlands of Sco...
PIAZ'ZA, n. [Eng. id.] In building, a portico or covered walk supported by arche...
PIAS'TER, n. An Italian coin of about 80 cents value, or 3s.7d. sterling. but th...
PIANO-FORTE, n. [L. planus,plain, smooth; L. fortis, strong.] A keyed musical in...
PI'ANIST, n. A performer on the forte-piano, or one well skilled in it.
PI'ANET, n. [L. pica or picus.] A bird, the lesser woodpecker. 1. The magpie.
PIAC'ULOUS, a. [L. piacularis, from pio, to expiate.] 1. Expiatory; having power...
PI'ACLE,n. [L. piaculum.] An enormous crime. [Not used.]
PIABA, n. A small fresh water fish of Brazil, about the size of the minnow, much...
PHYTOL'OGY, n. [Gr. a plant, and discourse.] A discourse or treatise of plants, ...
PHYTOL'OGIST, n. [See Phytology .] One versed in plants, or skilled in phytology...