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Pictorial. [Obs.]

A race of people of uncertain origin, who inhabited Scotland in early times.

Pattern of coloration.

Capable of being pictured, or represented by a picture.

Pictorial. [R.] Sir W. Scott.

of painting; representation by painting. [Obs.] Any well-expressed image . . . either in picture or sculpture. Sir H. Wotton.

Furnished with pictures; represented by a picture or pictures; as, a pictured scene.

One who makes pictures; a painter. [R.] Fuller.

Forming, or fitted to form, a good or pleasing picture; representing with the clearness or ideal beauty appropriate to a picture; expressing that peculiar kind of beauty which is agreeable in a picture, natural or artificial; graphic; vivid; as, a picturesque scene or attitude; picturesque language. What is picturesque…

Somewhat picturesque. [R.]

To picture.

A commercial weight varying in different countries and for different commodities. In Borneo it is 135tan. [Written also pecul, and pecal.]

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.

Relieving weariness; restorative.

Pertaining to, or derived from, fatty or oily substances; -- applied to certain acids obtained from fats by the action of nitric acid.

Exhibiting differences of quality or property in different directions; not isotropic. Sir W. Thomson.

Same as Æsopian.

Of or pertaining to allotropism. -- Al`lo*trop"ic*al*ly, adv. Allotropic state, the several conditions which occur in a case of allotropism.

Allotropic property or nature.