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A toothpick. [Obs.] Swift.

A small piece of land inclosed with a hedge; a close. [Obs.] [Written also pickle.]

To go on a picnic, or pleasure excursion; to eat in public fashion.

One who takes part in a picnic.

Like or pertaining to the Pici.

Any one of three isometric bases (C6H7N) related to pyridine, and obtained from bone oil, acrolein ammonia, and coal-tar naphtha, as colorless mobile liquids of strong odor; -- called also methyl pyridine.

One of many small loops, as of thread, forming an ornamental border, as on a ribbon.

A variety of carnation having petals of a light color variously dotted and spotted at the edges.

See Piquet.

The powder of aloes with canella, formerly officinal, employed as a cathartic.

A salt of picric acid.

Pertaining to, or designating, a strong organic acid (called picric acid), intensely bitter.

A dark green igneous rock, consisting largely of chrysolite, with hornblende, augite, biotite, etc.

A fibrous variety of serpentine.

A colorless viscous substance having a bitter-sweet taste.

A bitter white crystalline substance found in the cocculus indicus. It is a peculiar poisonous neurotic and intoxicant, and consists of a mixture of several neutral substances.

The hypothetical radical of picric acid, analogous to phenyl.

Of or pertaining to Picts; resembling the Picts. "The Pictish peer." Byron.

A picture or hieroglyph representing and expressing an idea. -- Pic`to*graph"ic, a.

Of or pertaining to pictures; illustrated by pictures; forming pictures; representing with the clearness of a picture; as, a pictorial dictionary; a pictorial imagination. "Pictorial rhetoric." Ruskin. -- Pic*to"ri*al*ly, adv.