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A high, stiff collar for the neck; also, a hem or band about the skirt of a garment, -- worn by men in the 17th century.

Money paid at fairs for leave to break ground for booths. Ainsworth.

A pickle of various vegetables with pungent species, -- originally made in the East Indies.

A small, shrill flute, the pitch of which is an octave higher than the ordinary flute; an octave flute.

A small copper coin of the East Indies, worth less than a cent. Malcom.

can black and white spruces. These trees have pendent cones, which do not readily fall to pieces, in this and other respects differing from the firs.

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Of or pertaining to pitch; resembling pitch in color or quality; pitchy.

A Brazilian armadillo (Dasypus minutus); the little armadillo. [Written also pichiy.]

atus), allied to the armadillos. The shell is attached only along the back. [Written also pichyciego.]

The seed of a Brazilian lauraceous tree (Nectandra Puchury) of a taste and smell between those of nutmeg and of sassafras, -- sometimes used medicinally. Called also sassafras nut.

A division of birds including the woodpeckers and wrynecks.

Of or pertaining to Piciformes.

A group of birds including the woodpeckers, toucans, barbets, colies, kingfishes, hornbills, and some other related groups.

Of or pertaining to the woodpeckers (Pici), or to the Piciformes.

To throw; to pitch. [Obs.] As high as I could pick my lance. Shak.

One who seeks out faults.

A stimulant, restorative, or tonic; a bracer. [Colloq.]

Act of picking up, as, in various games, the fielding or hitting of a ball just after it strikes the ground.

On the back or shoulders; as, to ride pickback. [Written also pickapack, pickback, and pickpack.] A woman stooping to take a child pickaback. R,Jefferies.