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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.

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.]