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A fibrous product of two Brazilian palm trees (Attalea funifera and Leopoldinia Piassaba), -- used in making brooms, and for other purposes. Called also piaçaba and piasaba.

A silver coin of Spain and various other countries. See Peso. The Spanish piaster (commonly called peso, or peso duro) is of about the value of the American dollar. The Italian piaster, or scudo, was worth from 80 to 100 cents. The Turkish and Egyptian piasters are now worth about four and a half cents.…

See Piaster.

The act of making atonement; expiation. [Obs.]

Cymbals. [Written also pyatti.]

tates the word is popularly applied to a veranda. We walk by the obelisk, and meditate in piazzas. Jer. Taylor.

A wind instrument or pipe, with a horn at each end, -- used in Wales.

would either excite or assuage; generally applied to those airs that are played on the bagpipe before the Highlanders when they go out to battle. Jamieson.

A Turkish cloth measure, varying from 18 to 28 inches.

The genus that includes the magpies.

ith a lance, who in a bullfight receives the first attack of the bull, and excites him by picking him without attempting to kill him.

An oily liquid hydrocarbon extracted from the creosote of beechwood tar. It consists essentially of certain derivatives of pyrogallol.

The finfoot.

One of a sect of Adamites in the fifteenth century; -- so called from one Picard of Flanders. See Adamite.

Applied to that class of literature in which the principal personage is the Spanish picaro, meaning a rascal, a knave, a rogue, an adventurer.

An extensive division of birds which includes the woodpeckers, toucans, trogons, hornbills, kingfishers, motmots, rollers, and goatsuckers. By some writers it is made to include also the cuckoos, swifts, and humming birds.

Of or pertaining to Picariæ. -- n.

One who plunders; especially, a plunderer of wrecks; a pirate; a corsair; a marauder; a sharper. Sir W. Temple.

A small coin of the value of six and a quarter cents. See Fippenny bit. [Local, U.S.]

Petty; paltry; mean; as, a picayunish business. [Colloq. U.S.]