To put into a mixed and disordered condition, as type; to mix and disarrange the type of; as, to pi a form.
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The pineapple. Pi/a cloth or the fiber of which it is made.
A pedestal of small size, used to support small objects, as busts, vases, and the like.
The edible seed of several species of pine; also, the tree producing such seeds, as Pinus Pinea of Southern Europe, and Pinus Parryana, cembroides, edulis, and monophylla, the nut pines of Western North America. See Monkey's puzzle.
See Piassava.
A heinous offense which requires expiation.
Expiatory; atoning.
The quality or state of being piacular; criminality; wickedness.
Same as Piacular.
Pertaining to the pia mater.
The yaws. See Yaws.
The magpie. The lesser woodpecker.
A small piano; a pianino.
A pianette, or small piano.
Very soft; -- a direction to execute a passage as softly as possible. (Abbrev. pp.)
A performer, esp. a skilled performer, on the piano.
Soft; -- a direction to the performer to execute a certain passage softly, and with diminished volume of tone. (Abbrev. p.)
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.
A form of melodiograph applied to a piano.
A mechanically operated piano that uses a roll of perforated paper to activate the keys.
A West African pie (Ptilostomus Senegalensis).
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.
A fibrous product of two Brazilian palm trees (Attalea funifera and Leopoldinia Piassaba), -- used in making brooms, and for other purposes. Called also pia/aba and piasaba.
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.
See Piaster.
The act of making atonement; expiation.
Cymbals.
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.
A wind instrument or pipe, with a horn at each end, -- used in Wales.
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.
A Turkish cloth measure, varying from 18 to 28 inches.
The genus that includes the magpies.
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 Picari/. One of the Picari/.
One who plunders; especially, a plunderer of wrecks; a pirate; a corsair; a marauder; a sharper.
A small coin of the value of six and a quarter cents. See Fippenny bit.
Petty; paltry; mean; as, a picayunish business.
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.
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.
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/H/) extracted from the pitchy residue of coal tar and petroleum as a bluish fluorescent crystalline substance.
Of or pertaining to pitch; resembling pitch in color or quality; pitchy.
A Brazilian armadillo (Dasypus minutus); the little armadillo.
A small, burrowing, South American edentate (Chlamyphorus truncatus), allied to the armadillos. The shell is attached only along the back.
A division of birds including the woodpeckers and wrynecks.
Of or pertaining to the Piciformes.
A group of birds including the woodpeckers, toucans, barbets, colies, kingfishes, hornbills, and some other related groups.
Of or pertaining to the woodpeckers (Pici), or to the Piciformes.
A sharp-pointed tool for picking; -- often used in composition; as, a toothpick; a picklock.
to put out a baserunner who is off base by tagging him/her, especially by a quick throw from the pitcher or catcher.
One who seeks out faults.
A stimulant, restorative, or tonic; a bracer.
Act of picking up, as, in various games, the fielding or hitting of a ball just after it strikes the ground.
On the back or shoulders; as, to ride pickback.
A small child; especially, a negro or mulatto infant. Now (2001) used primarily in the latter sense, and in that sense often considered derogatory.
Pickaback.
A pick with a point at one end, a transverse edge or blade at the other, and a handle inserted at the middle; a hammer with a flattened end for driving wedges and a pointed end for piercing as it strikes.
On the back.
Pointed; sharp.
The state of being sharpened; pointedness.
To make a raid for booty; to maraud; also, to skirmish in advance of an army. See Picaroon.
One who pickeers.
One who, or that which, picks, in any sense, -- as, one who uses a pick; one who gathers; a thief; a pick; a pickax; as, a cotton picker.
A young or small pike.
The sauger of the St.Lawrence River.
Petty theft.
To fortify with pointed stakes.
See Picotee.
Done or made as with a pointed tool; as, a picking sound.
To preserve or season in pickle; to treat with some kind of pickle; as, to pickle herrings or cucumbers.
A herring preserved in brine; a pickled herring.
Preserved in a pickle.
One who makes pickles.
An instrument for picking locks.
The pewit, or black-headed gull.
See Picnic.
a play in which a base runner is picked off. See pick off.
Pickaback.
A miser; also, a sharper.
One who steals purses or other articles from pockets.
One who steals purses, or money from purses.
See Pixy.
One who strives to put another under obligation; an officious person; hence, a flatterer. Used also adjectively.
A toothpick.
A small piece of land inclosed with a hedge; a close.
To go on a picnic, or pleasure excursion; to eat in public fashion.
One who takes part in a picnic.
Like or pertaining to the Pici.
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.
One of many small loops, as of thread, forming an ornamental border, as on a ribbon.
A variety of carnation having petals of a light color variously dotted and spotted at the edges.
See Piquet.
The powder of aloes with canella, formerly officinal, employed as a cathartic.
A salt of picric acid.
Pertaining to, or designating, a strong organic acid (called picric acid), intensely bitter.
A dark green igneous rock, consisting largely of chrysolite, with hornblende, augite, biotite, etc.
A fibrous variety of serpentine.
A colorless viscous substance having a bitter-sweet taste.
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.
The hypothetical radical of picric acid, analogous to phenyl.
Of or pertaining to Picts; resembling the Picts.
A picture or hieroglyph representing and expressing an idea.
Of or pertaining to pictures; illustrated by pictures; forming pictures; representing with the clearness of a picture; as, a pictorial dictionary; a pictorial imagination.
Pictorial.
A race of people of uncertain origin, who inhabited Scotland in early times.
Pattern of coloration.
Capable of being pictured, or represented by a picture.
A picture.
To draw or paint a resemblance of; to delineate; to represent; to form or present an ideal likeness of; to bring before the mind.
Furnished with pictures; represented by a picture or pictures; as, a pictured scene.
One who makes pictures; a painter.
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.
Somewhat picturesque.
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