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A kind of type, in size between small pica and bourgeois.
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a.
Petty; paltry; mean; as, a picayunish business.
n.
A kind of type, of which there are two species; one, called long primer, intermediate in size between bourgeois and small pica [see Long primer]; the other, called great primer, larger than pica.
n.
One of a sect of Adamites in the fifteenth century; -- so called from one Picard of Flanders. See Adamite.
n.
A standard unit of measure for the size of type bodies, being one twelfth of the thickness of pica type. See Point system of type, under Type.
n.
Any one of numerous species of Old World picarian birds of the family Coraciadae. The name alludes to their habit of suddenly turning over or "tumbling" in flight.
n.
A piece of hollow type metal, lower than type, and measuring two or more pica ems in length and breadth, used in the blank spaces at the beginning and end of chapters, etc.
n.
A small coin of the value of six and a quarter cents. See Fippenny bit.
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.
n.
A quadrat, the face or top of which is a perfect square; also, the size of such a square in any given size of type, used as the unit of measurement for that type: 500 m's of pica would be a piece of matter whose length and breadth in pica m's multiplied together produce that number.
n. pl.
The picarian birds, as distinguished from the singing birds.
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.
n. pl.
A division of birds, including the clamatorial and picarian birds, which do not have well developed singing organs.
n.
A size of type next larger than small pica, and smaller than English.
n.
One of the Picariae.
n.
Any other species of the genus Pica, and of several allied genera.
n.
Any one of numerous species of the genus Pica and related genera, allied to the jays, but having a long graduated tail.
a.
Of or pertaining to Picariae.
v. i.
To make a raid for booty; to maraud; also, to skirmish in advance of an army. See Picaroon.
n.
One who plunders; especially, a plunderer of wrecks; a pirate; a corsair; a marauder; a sharper.
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