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A Turkish cloth measure, varying from 18 to 28 inches.

A size of type next larger than small pica, and smaller than English.

ith a lance, who in a bullfight receives the first attack of the bull, and excites him by picking him without attempting to kill him.

An oily liquid hydrocarbon extracted from the creosote of beechwood tar. It consists essentially of certain derivatives of pyrogallol.

The finfoot.

One of a sect of Adamites in the fifteenth century; -- so called from one Picard of Flanders. See Adamite.

Applied to that class of literature in which the principal personage is the Spanish picaro, meaning a rascal, a knave, a rogue, an adventurer.

An extensive division of birds which includes the woodpeckers, toucans, trogons, hornbills, kingfishers, motmots, rollers, and goatsuckers. By some writers it is made to include also the cuckoos, swifts, and humming birds.

Of or pertaining to Picariæ. -- n.

One who plunders; especially, a plunderer of wrecks; a pirate; a corsair; a marauder; a sharper. Sir W. Temple.

A small coin of the value of six and a quarter cents. See Fippenny bit. [Local, U.S.]

Petty; paltry; mean; as, a picayunish business. [Colloq. U.S.]

A high, stiff collar for the neck; also, a hem or band about the skirt of a garment, -- worn by men in the 17th century.

Money paid at fairs for leave to break ground for booths. Ainsworth.

A pickle of various vegetables with pungent species, -- originally made in the East Indies.

A small, shrill flute, the pitch of which is an octave higher than the ordinary flute; an octave flute.

A small copper coin of the East Indies, worth less than a cent. Malcom.

A genus of coniferous trees of the northen hemisphere, including the Norway spruce and the American black and white spruces. These trees have pendent cones, which do not readily fall to pieces, in this and other respects differing from the firs.

A hydrocarbon (C

Of or pertaining to pitch; resembling pitch in color or quality; pitchy.