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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 peck at, as a bird with its beak; to strike at with anything pointed; to act upon with a pointed instrument; to pierce; to prick, as with a pin.

Any species of very small woodpeckers of the genus Picumnus and allied genera. Their tail feathers are not stiff and sharp at the tips, as in ordinary woodpeckers.

A genus of woodpeckers, including some of the common American and European species.

y different kinds of trees, species of Dipholis, Diospyros, and Coccoloba. -- Pigeon woodpecker (Zoöl.), the flicker. -- Prairie pigeon. (Zoöl.) (a) The upland plover. (b) The golden plover. [Local, U.S.]

Having a crest covering the pileus, or whole top of the head. Pileated woodpecker (Zoöl.), a large American woodpecker (Ceophloeus pileatus). It is black, with a bright red pointed crest. Called also logcock, and woodcock.

arkable for having the dark skin of the face irregularly spotted with white. Called also speckled Indians.

r percoid fish of the United States (Aphredoderus Sayanus). It is of a dark olive color, speckled with blackish spots.

Specked, as if plashed with color. Keats.

The green woodpecker.

other branches of knowledge, or to the practical wants of life. See Mathematics. Davies & Peck (Math. Dict. ) -- Pure villenage (Feudal Law), a tenure of lands by uncertain services at the will of the lord. Blackstone.

ity, both in dry and in liquid measure; the fourth part of a gallon; the eighth part of a peck; two pints.

The fourth part of a peck, or of a stone (14 ibs.).

degree indicated is not a radical but a rational quantity under a radical form. Davies & Peck (Math. Dict. )

ng dial, a dial whose plane is inclined to the vertical line through its center. Davies & Peck (Math. Dict.).

The red-headed woodpecker. See Woodpecker.

Ring-streaked. Cattle ringstraked, speckled, and spotted. Gen. xxx. 39.

The unit of monetary value in Russia. It is divided into 100 copecks, and in the gold coin of the realm (as in the five and ten ruble pieces) is worth about 77 cents. The silver ruble is a coin worth about 60 cents. [Written also rouble.]

Marked with small spots; variegated with spots; speckled; of a sandy color, as a hound. Shak.