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Picts

A race of people of uncertain origin, who inhabited Scotland in early times.

Picturable

Capable of being pictured, or represented by a picture.

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.

Pictured

Furnished with pictures; represented by a picture or pictures; as, a pictured scene.

Picturer

One who makes pictures; a painter.

Picturesque

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.

Picul

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

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.

Picus

A genus of woodpeckers, including some of the common American and European species.

Piddle

To deal in trifles; to concern one's self with trivial matters rather than with those that are important.

Piddling

Trifling; trivial; frivolous; paltry; -- applied to persons and things.

Piddock

Any species of Pholas; a pholad. See Pholas.

Piebald

Having spots and patches of black and white, or other colors; mottled; pied.

Piece

To unite by a coalescence of parts; to fit together; to join.

Piecener

One who supplies rolls of wool to the slubbing machine in woolen mills.

Piecer

One who pieces; a patcher.

Piecework

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

Variegated with spots of different colors; party-colored; spotted; piebald.

Piedmont

Noting the region of foothills near the base of a mountain chain.

Piedmontite

A manganesian kind of epidote, from Piedmont. See Epidote.

Pieman

A man who makes or sells pies.

Pieno

Full; having all the instruments.

Pieplant

A plant (Rheum Rhaponticum) the leafstalks of which are acid, and are used in making pies; the garden rhubarb.

Piepowder Piepoudre

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

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. Any additional or auxiliary mass of masonry used to stiffen a wall. See Buttress.

Pierce

To enter; to penetrate; to make a way into or through something, as a pointed instrument does; -- used literally and figuratively.

Pierced

Penetrated; entered; perforated.

Piercel

A kind of gimlet for making vents in casks; -- called also piercer.

Piercer

One who, or that which, pierces or perforates An instrument used in forming eyelets; a stiletto. A piercel.

Piercing

Forcibly entering, or adapted to enter, at or by a point; perforating; penetrating; keen; -- used also figuratively; as, a piercing instrument, or thrust.

Pierian

Of or pertaining to Pierides or Muses.

Pierid

Any butterfly of the genus Pieris and related genera. See Cabbage butterfly, under Cabbage.

Pierre-perdu

Blocks of stone or concrete heaped loosely in the water to make a foundation (as for a sea wall), a breakwater, a mole, etc.

Piet

The dipper, or water ouzel. The magpie.

Pieta

A representation of the dead Christ, attended by the Virgin Mary or by holy women and angels.

Pietism

The principle or practice of the Pietists.

Pietist

One of a class of religious reformers in Germany in the 17th century who sought to revive declining piety in the Protestant churches; -- often applied as a term of reproach to those who make a display of religious feeling. Also used adjectively.

Pietistical Pietistic

Of or pertaining to the Pietists; hence, in contempt, affectedly or demonstratively religious.

Piety

Veneration or reverence of the Supreme Being, and love of his character; loving obedience to the will of God, and earnest devotion to his service.

Piezometer

An instrument for measuring the compressibility of liquids.

Piffara Piffero

A fife; also, a rude kind of oboe or a bagpipe with an inflated skin for reservoir.

Piffle

Act of piffling; trifling talk or action; piddling; twaddle.

Pig

To bring forth (pigs); to bring forth in the manner of pigs; to farrow.

Pig-headed

Having a head like a pig; hence, figuratively: stupidity obstinate; perverse; stubborn.

Pig-jawed

Having the upper jaw projecting beyond the lower, with the upper incisors in advance of the lower; -- said of dogs.

Pigeon

To pluck; to fleece; to swindle by tricks in gambling.

Pigeon-breasted

Having a breast like a pigeon, -- the sternum being so prominent as to constitute a deformity; chicken-breasted.

Pigeonfoot

The dove's-foot geranium (Geranium molle).

Pigeonhole

To place in the pigeonhole of a case or cabinet; hence, to put away; to lay aside indefinitely; as, to pigeonhole a letter or a report.

Pigeonry

A place for pigeons; a dovecote.

Pigfish

Any one of several species of salt-water grunts; -- called also hogfish. A sculpin. The name is also applied locally to several other fishes.

Pigfoot

A marine fish (Scorp/na porcus), native of Europe. It is reddish brown, mottled with dark brown and black.

Pigg

A piggin. See 1st Pig.

Piggery

A place where swine are kept.

Piggin

A small wooden pail or tub with an upright stave for a handle, -- often used as a dipper.

Piggish

Relating to, or like, a pig; greedy.

Pight

Pitched; fixed; determined.

Pigment

Any material from which a dye, a paint, or the like, may be prepared; particularly, the refined and purified coloring matter ready for mixing with an appropriate vehicle.

Pigmentation

A deposition, esp. an excessive deposition, of coloring matter; as, pigmentation of the liver.

Pigmented

Colored; specifically (Biol.), filled or imbued with pigment; as, pigmented epithelial cells; pigmented granules.

Pignut

See Groundnut (d). The bitter-flavored nut of a species of hickory (Carya glabra syn. Carya porcina); also, the tree itself.

Pigpen

A pen, or sty, for pigs.

Pigskin

The skin of a pig, -- used chiefly for making saddles; hence, a colloquial or slang term for a saddle.

Pigsney

A word of endearment for a girl or woman.

Pigtailed

Having a tail like a pig's; as, the pigtailed baboon.

Pigweed

A name of several annual weeds. See Goosefoot, and Lamb's-quarters.

Pigwidgeon

A cant word for anything petty or small. It is used by Drayton as the name of a fairy.

Pika

Any one of several species of tailless rodents of the genus Ochotona (formerly Lagomys), resembling small rabbits, but with short ears alnd legs. They inhabit the high mountains of Asia and America. Called also calling hare, and crying hare and rock rabbit. See Chief hare.

Pike

A foot soldier's weapon, consisting of a long wooden shaft or staff, with a pointed steel head. It is now superseded by the bayonet.

Piked

Furnished with a pike; ending in a point; peaked; pointed.

Pikeman

A soldier armed with a pike.

Pilaster

An upright architectural member right-angled in plan, constructionally a pier (See Pier, 1 (b)), but architecturally corresponding to a column, having capital, shaft, and base to agree with those of the columns of the same order. In most cases the projection from the wall is one third of its width, or less.

Pilch

A gown or case of skin, or one trimmed or lined with fur.

Pilchard

A small European food fish (Clupea pilchardus) resembling the herring, but thicker and rounder. It is sometimes taken in great numbers on the coast of England.

Pile

To lay or throw into a pile or heap; to heap up; to collect into a mass; to accumulate; to amass; -- often with up; as, to pile up wood.

Pile-worn

Having the pile worn off; threadbare.

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