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

A horseman armed with 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.]

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

Like or related to man; human. [R.] Owen.

Of or pertaining to an antitype; explaining the type. -- An`ti*typ"ic*al*ly, adv.

At or belonging to an apex, tip, or summit. Gray.

Relating to an archetype; archetypal.

That has no type; devoid of typical character; irregular; unlike the type.

the auspicium, or inspection of birds, before undertaking any important business. They auspicate all their proceedings. Burke.

Pertaining to, or determined by, the baroscope.

Despicableness. [R.] Carlyle.