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Of or relating to the Medici, a noted Italian family; as, the Medicean Venus. Medicean planets (Astron.), a name given by Galileo to the satellites of Jupiter.

Italian pottery of the epoch and general character of majolica, but less brilliantly decorated, esp. such pottery without tin enamel, but painted and glazed.

The nickname of a crackbrained Italian who fancied himself an emperor. [Obs.] Shak.

uessing the number of fingers extended in a quick movement of the hand, -- much played by Italians of the lower classes.

ned sound; e.g., in French, l or ll and gn (like the lli in million and ni in minion); in Italian, gl and gn; in Spanish, ll and ñ; in Portuguese, lh and nh.

All that architecture which, since the beginning of the Italian Renaissance, about 1420, has been designed with deliberate imitation of Greco-Roman buildings.

Of, pertaining to, or discovered by, Filippo Pacini, an Italian physician of the 19th century.

ck a jury or a causes. The expected council was dwindling into . . . a packed assembly of Italian bishops. Atterbury.

A man who imports, and controls the earnings of, Italian laborers, street musicians, etc.

of the revived classic style of architecture, founded on the works of Andrea Palladio, an Italian architect of the 16th century.

An Italian game, played with a large leather ball.

Aridiculous character, or an old dotard, in the Italian comedy; also, a buffoon in pantomimes. Addison. The sixth age shifts Into the lean and slippered pantaloon. Shak.

An old Italian silver coin, worth about ten cents.

An old Italian or Spanish dance tune, in slow three-four measure, with divisions on a ground bass, resembling a chaconne.

An Italian silver coin. See Paolo.

Lit., an arbor or bower; specif.: (Italian art)

er (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.

An open square in a European town, especially an Italian town; hence (Arch.), an arcaded and roofed gallery; a portico. In the United States the word is popularly applied to a veranda. We walk by the obelisk, and meditate in piazzas. Jer. Taylor.

rter doubloon, or about $3.90, and in Germany and Italy nearly the same. There was an old Italian pistole worth about $5.40.

hic arts. Medallions . . . fraught with the plastic beauty and grace of the palmy days of Italian art. J. S. Harford. Plastic clay (Geol.), one of the beds of the Eocene period; -- so called because used in making pottery. Lyell. -- Plastic element (Physiol.), one that bears within the germs of a higher form. -- Plas…