Picoline (n.) Any one of three isometric bases (C6H7N) related to pyridine, and obtained from bone oil, acrolein ammonia, and coal-tar naphtha, as colorless mobile liquids of strong odor; -- called also methyl pyridine.
Picotee (n.) Alt. of Picotine
Picotine (n.) A variety of carnation having petals of a light color variously dotted and spotted at the edges.
Picquet (n.) See Piquet.
Picra (n.) The powder of aloes with canella, formerly officinal, employed as a cathartic.
Picrate (n.) A salt of picric acid.
Picric (a.) Pertaining to, or designating, a strong organic acid (called picric acid), intensely bitter.
Picrite (n.) A dark green igneous rock, consisting largely of chrysolite, with hornblende, augite, biotite, etc.
Picrolite (n.) A fibrous variety of serpentine.
Picromel (n.) A colorless viscous substance having a bitter-sweet taste.
Picrotoxin (n.) 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.
Picryl (n.) The hypothetical radical of picric acid, analogous to phenyl.
Pictish (a.) Of or pertaining to Picts; resembling the Picts.
Pictograph (n.) A picture or hieroglyph representing and expressing an idea.
Pictorial (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.
Pictoric (a.) Alt. of Pictorical
Pictorical (a.) Pictorial.
Picts (n. pl.) A race of people of uncertain origin, who inhabited Scotland in early times.
Pictura (n.) Pattern of coloration.
Picturable (a.) Capable of being pictured, or represented by a picture.
Pictural (a.) Pictorial.
Pictural (n.) A picture.
Picture (n.) The art of painting; representation by painting.
Picture (n.) A representation of anything (as a person, a landscape, a building) upon canvas, paper, or other surface, produced by means of painting, drawing, engraving, photography, etc.; a representation in colors. By extension, a figure; a model.
Picture (n.) An image or resemblance; a representation, either to the eye or to the mind; that which, by its likeness, brings vividly to mind some other thing; as, a child is the picture of his father; the man is the picture of grief.
Pictured (imp. & p. p.) of Picture
Picturing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Picture
Picture (v. t.) To draw or paint a resemblance of; to delineate; to represent; to form or present an ideal likeness of; to bring before the mind.
Pictured (a.) Furnished with pictures; represented by a picture or pictures; as, a pictured scene.
Picturer (n.) One who makes pictures; a painter.
Picturesque (a.) 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.
Picturesquish (a.) Somewhat picturesque.
Picturized (imp. & p. p.) of Picturize
Picturizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Picturize
Picturize (v. t.) To picture.
Picturize (v. t.) To adorn with pictures.
Picul (n.) A commercial weight varying in different countries and for different commodities. In Borneo it is 135/ lbs.; in China and Sumatra, 133/ lbs.; in Japan, 133/ lbs.; but sometimes 130 lbs., etc. Called also, by the Chinese, tan.
Piculet (n.) 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.
Pici (pl. ) of Picus
Picus (n.) A genus of woodpeckers, including some of the common American and European species.
Piddled (imp. & p. p.) of Piddle
Piddling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Piddle
Piddle (v. i.) To deal in trifles; to concern one's self with trivial matters rather than with those that are important.
Piddle (v. i.) To be squeamishly nice about one's food.
Piddle (v. i.) To urinate; -- child's word.
Piddler (n.) One who piddles.
Piddling (a.) Trifling; trivial; frivolous; paltry; -- applied to persons and things.
Piddock (n.) Any species of Pholas; a pholad. See Pholas.
Pie (n.) An article of food consisting of paste baked with something in it or under it; as, chicken pie; venison pie; mince pie; apple pie; pumpkin pie.
Pie (n.) See Camp, n., 5.
Pie (n.) A magpie.
Pie (n.) Any other species of the genus Pica, and of several allied genera.
Pie (n.) The service book.
Pie (n.) Type confusedly mixed. See Pi.
Pie (v. t.) See Pi.
Piebald (a.) Having spots and patches of black and white, or other colors; mottled; pied.
Piebald (a.) Fig.: Mixed.
Piece (n.) A fragment or part of anything separated from the whole, in any manner, as by cutting, splitting, breaking, or tearing; a part; a portion; as, a piece of sugar; to break in pieces.
Piece (n.) A definite portion or quantity, as of goods or work; as, a piece of broadcloth; a piece of wall paper.
Piece (n.) Any one thing conceived of as apart from other things of the same kind; an individual article; a distinct single effort of a series; a definite performance
Piece (n.) A literary or artistic composition; as, a piece of poetry, music, or statuary.
Piece (n.) A musket, gun, or cannon; as, a battery of six pieces; a following piece.
Piece (n.) A coin; as, a sixpenny piece; -- formerly applied specifically to an English gold coin worth 22 shillings.
Piece (n.) A fact; an item; as, a piece of news; a piece of knowledge.
Piece (n.) An individual; -- applied to a person as being of a certain nature or quality; often, but not always, used slightingly or in contempt.
Piece (n.) One of the superior men, distinguished from a pawn.
Piece (n.) A castle; a fortified building.
Pieced (imp. & p. p.) of Piece
Piecing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Piece
Piece (v. t.) To make, enlarge, or repair, by the addition of a piece or pieces; to patch; as, to piece a garment; -- often with out.
Piece (v. t.) To unite; to join; to combine.
Piece (v. i.) To unite by a coalescence of parts; to fit together; to join.
Pieceless (a.) Not made of pieces; whole; entire.
Piecely (adv.) In pieces; piecemeal.
Piecemeal (adv.) In pieces; in parts or fragments.
Piecemeal (adv.) Piece by piece; by little and little in succession.
Piecemeal (a.) Made up of parts or pieces; single; separate.
Piecemeal (n.) A fragment; a scrap.
Piecemealed (a.) Divided into pieces.
Piecener (n.) One who supplies rolls of wool to the slubbing machine in woolen mills.
Piecener (n.) Same as Piecer, 2.
Piecer (n.) One who pieces; a patcher.
Piecer (n.) A child employed in spinning mill to tie together broken threads.
Piecework (n.) Work done by the piece or job; work paid for at a rate based on the amount of work done, rather than on the time employed.
Pied () imp. & p. p. of Pi, or Pie, v.
Pied (a.) Variegated with spots of different colors; party-colored; spotted; piebald.
Piedmont (a.) Noting the region of foothills near the base of a mountain chain.
Piedmontite (n.) A manganesian kind of epidote, from Piedmont. See Epidote.
Piedness (n.) The state of being pied.
Piedouche (n.) A pedestal of small size, used to support small objects, as busts, vases, and the like.
Piedstall (n.) See Pedestal.
Piemen (pl. ) of Pieman
Pieman (n.) A man who makes or sells pies.
Piend (n.) See Peen.
Pieno (a.) Full; having all the instruments.
Pieplant (n.) A plant (Rheum Rhaponticum) the leafstalks of which are acid, and are used in making pies; the garden rhubarb.
Piepoudre (n.) Alt. of Piepowder
Piepowder (n.) An ancient court of record in England, formerly incident to every fair and market, of which the steward of him who owned or had the toll was the judge.
Pier (n.) Any detached mass of masonry, whether insulated or supporting one side of an arch or lintel, as of a bridge; the piece of wall between two openings.
Pier (n.) Any additional or auxiliary mass of masonry used to stiffen a wall. See Buttress.