Phytography (n.) The science of describing plants in a systematic manner; also, a description of plants.
Phytoid (a.) Resembling a plant; plantlike.
Phytolacca (n.) A genus of herbaceous plants, some of them having berries which abound in intensely red juice; poke, or pokeweed.
Phytolite (n.) An old name for a fossil plant.
Phytolithologist (n.) One versed in phytolithology; a paleobotanist.
Phytolithology (n.) The branch of science which treats of fossil plants; -- usually called paleobotany, sometimes paleophytology.
Phytological (a.) Of or pertaining to phytology; botanical.
Phytologist (n.) One skilled in phytology; a writer on plants; a botanist.
Phytology (n.) The science of plants; a description of the kinds and properties of plants; botany.
Phytomer (n.) Alt. of Phytomeron
Phytomeron (n.) An organic element of a flowering plant; a phyton.
Phytons (pl. ) of Phyton
Phyton (n.) One of the parts which by their repetition make up a flowering plant, each being a single joint of a stem with its leaf or leaves; a phytomer.
Phytonomy (n.) The science of the origin and growth of plants.
Phytopathologist (n.) One skilled in diseases of plants.
Phytopathology (n.) The science of diseases to which plants are liable.
Phytophaga (n. pl.) A division of Hymenoptera; the sawflies.
Phytophagic (a.) Phytophagous.
Phytophagous (a.) Feeding on plants; herbivorous; as, a phytophagous animal.
Phytophagy (n.) The eating of plants.
Phytophysiology (n.) Vegetable physiology.
Phytotomist (n.) One versed in phytotomy.
Phytotomy (n.) The dissection of plants; vegetable anatomy.
Phytozoaria (n. pl.) Same as Infusoria.
Phytozoa (pl. ) of Phytozoon
Phytozoon (n.) A plantlike animal. The term is sometimes applied to zoophytes.
Phyz (n.) See Phiz.
Pi (n.) A mass of type confusedly mixed or unsorted.
Pied (imp. & p. p.) of Pi
Pieing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Pi
Pi (v. t.) To put into a mixed and disordered condition, as type; to mix and disarrange the type of; as, to pi a form.
Piacaba (n.) See Piassava.
Piacle (n.) A heinous offense which requires expiation.
Piacular (a.) Expiatory; atoning.
Piacular (a.) Requiring expiation; criminal; atrociously bad.
Piacularity (n.) The quality or state of being piacular; criminality; wickedness.
Piaculous (a.) Same as Piacular.
Pial (a.) Pertaining to the pia mater.
Pia mater () The delicate and highly vascular membrane immediately investing the brain and spinal cord.
Pian (n.) The yaws. See Yaws.
Pianet (n.) The magpie.
Pianet (n.) The lesser woodpecker.
Pianette (n.) A small piano; a pianino.
Pianino (n.) A pianette, or small piano.
Pianissimo (a.) Very soft; -- a direction to execute a passage as softly as possible. (Abbrev. pp.)
Pianist (n.) A performer, esp. a skilled performer, on the piano.
Piano (a. & adv.) Soft; -- a direction to the performer to execute a certain passage softly, and with diminished volume of tone. (Abbrev. p.)
Piano (a.) Alt. of Pianoforte
Pianoforte (a.) A well-known musical instrument somewhat resembling the harpsichord, and consisting of a series of wires of graduated length, thickness, and tension, struck by hammers moved by keys.
Pianograph (n.) A form of melodiograph applied to a piano.
Piapec (n.) A West African pie (Ptilostomus Senegalensis).
Piarist (n.) One of a religious order who are the regular clerks of the Scuole Pie (religious schools), an institute of secondary education, founded at Rome in the last years of the 16th century.
Piassava (n.) A fibrous product of two Brazilian palm trees (Attalea funifera and Leopoldinia Piassaba), -- used in making brooms, and for other purposes. Called also piacaba and piasaba.
Piaster (n.) A silver coin of Spain and various other countries. See Peso. The Spanish piaster (commonly called peso, or peso duro) is of about the value of the American dollar. The Italian piaster, or scudo, was worth from 80 to 100 cents. The Turkish and Egyptian piasters are now worth about four and a half cents.
Piastre (n.) See Piaster.
Piation (n.) The act of making atonement; expiation.
Piatti (n. pl.) Cymbals.
Piazzas (pl. ) of Piazza
Piazza (n.) An open square in a European town, especially an Italian town; hence (Arch.), an arcaded and roofed gallery; a portico. In the United States the word is popularly applied to a veranda.
Pibcorn (n.) A wind instrument or pipe, with a horn at each end, -- used in Wales.
Pibroch (n.) A Highland air, suited to the particular passion which the musician would either excite or assuage; generally applied to those airs that are played on the bagpipe before the Highlanders when they go out to battle.
Pic (n.) A Turkish cloth measure, varying from 18 to 28 inches.
Pica (n.) The genus that includes the magpies.
Pica (n.) A vitiated appetite that craves what is unfit for food, as chalk, ashes, coal, etc.; chthonophagia.
Pica (n.) A service-book. See Pie.
Pica (n.) A size of type next larger than small pica, and smaller than English.
Picador (n.) 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.
Picamar (n.) An oily liquid hydrocarbon extracted from the creosote of beechwood tar. It consists essentially of certain derivatives of pyrogallol.
Picapare (n.) The finfoot.
Picard (n.) One of a sect of Adamites in the fifteenth century; -- so called from one Picard of Flanders. See Adamite.
Picaresque (a.) Applied to that class of literature in which the principal personage is the Spanish picaro, meaning a rascal, a knave, a rogue, an adventurer.
Picariae (n. pl.) 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.
Picarian (a.) Of or pertaining to Picariae.
Picarian (n.) One of the Picariae.
Picaroon (n.) One who plunders; especially, a plunderer of wrecks; a pirate; a corsair; a marauder; a sharper.
Picayune (n.) A small coin of the value of six and a quarter cents. See Fippenny bit.
Picayunish (a.) Petty; paltry; mean; as, a picayunish business.
Piccadil (n.) Alt. of Piccadilly
Piccadilly (n.) 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.
Piccage (n.) Money paid at fairs for leave to break ground for booths.
Piccalilli (n.) A pickle of various vegetables with pungent species, -- originally made in the East Indies.
Piccolo (n.) A small, shrill flute, the pitch of which is an octave higher than the ordinary flute; an octave flute.
Piccolo (n.) A small upright piano.
Piccolo (n.) An organ stop, with a high, piercing tone.
Pice (n.) A small copper coin of the East Indies, worth less than a cent.
Picea (n.) 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.
Picene (n.) A hydrocarbon (C/H/) extracted from the pitchy residue of coal tar and petroleum as a bluish fluorescent crystalline substance.
Piceous (a.) Of or pertaining to pitch; resembling pitch in color or quality; pitchy.
Pichey (n.) A Brazilian armadillo (Dasypus minutus); the little armadillo.
Pichiciago (n.) A small, burrowing, South American edentate (Chlamyphorus truncatus), allied to the armadillos. The shell is attached only along the back.
Pichurim bean () The seed of a Brazilian lauraceous tree (Nectandra Puchury) of a taste and smell between those of nutmeg and of sassafras, -- sometimes used medicinally. Called also sassafras nut.
Pici (n. pl.) A division of birds including the woodpeckers and wrynecks.
Piciform (a.) Of or pertaining to Piciformes.
Piciformes (n. pl.) A group of birds including the woodpeckers, toucans, barbets, colies, kingfishes, hornbills, and some other related groups.
Picine (a.) Of or pertaining to the woodpeckers (Pici), or to the Piciformes.
Picked (imp. & p. p.) of Pick
Picking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Pick
Pick (v.) To throw; to pitch.
Pick (v.) 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.
Pick (v.) To separate or open by means of a sharp point or points; as, to pick matted wool, cotton, oakum, etc.