PICA

n.

4 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

The genus that includes the magpies.

2.
n.

A vitiated appetite that craves what is unfit for food, as chalk, ashes, coal, etc.; chthonophagia.

3.
n.

A service-book. See Pie. [Obs.]

4.
n.

A size of type next larger than small pica, and smaller than English.


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