PIACLE
PI'ACLE, noun [Latin piaculum.] An enormous crime. [Not used.]
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American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.
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PIACULAR
PIAC'ULAR,
PIACULOUS
PIAC'ULOUS, adjective [Latin piacularis, from pio, to expiate.]1. Expiatory; having power to atone.2. Requiring expiation.3. Criminal; atrociously bad.[These words are little us...
PIANET
PI'ANET, noun [Latin pica or picus.] A bird, the lesser woodpecker.1. The magpie.
PIANIST
PI'ANIST, noun A performer on the forte-piano, or one well skilled in it.
PIANO-FORTE
PIANO-FORTE, noun [Latin planus, plain, smooth; Latin fortis, strong.]A keyed musical instrument of German origin and of the harpsichord kind, but smaller; so called from its so...
PIASTER
PIAS'TER, noun An Italian coin of about 80 cents value, or 3s.7d. sterling. But the value is different in different states or countries. It is called also, a piece of eight.
PIAZZA
PIAZ'ZA, noun [Eng. id.] In building, a portico or covered walk supported by arches or columns.PIB'-CORN, noun Among the Welsh, a wind instrument or pipe with a horn at each end.
PIBROCH
PI'BROCH, noun A wild irregular species of music, peculiar to the Highlands of Scotland. It is performed on a bagpipe, and adapted to excite or assuage passion, and particularly...
PICA
PI'CA, noun In ornithology, the pie or mag-pie, a species of Corvus.1. In medicine, a vitiated appetite which makes the patient crave what is unfit for food, as chalk, ashes, co...
PICAROON
PICAROON', noun A plunderer; a pirate. This word is not applied to a highway robber, but to pirates and plunderers of wrecks.In all wars, Corsica and Majorca have been nests of ...
PICCADIL
PIC'CADILPICCADIL'LYPIC'CAGE, noun Money paid at fairs for breaking ground for booths.
PICCADILLY
PICCADIL'LY
PICCAGE
PIC'CAGE, n. Money paid at fairs for breaking ground for booths.
PICK
PICK, verb transitive [Latin pecto.]1. To pull off or pluck with the fingers something that grows or adheres to another thing; to separate by the hand, as fruit from trees; as, ...
PICKAPACK
PICKAPACK, adverb In manner of a pack. [Vulgar.]
PICKARDIL
PICK'ARDIL, noun [probably from the root of pike, peak.]A high collar or a kind of ruff.
PICKAX
PICK'AX, noun [pick and ax.] An ax with a sharp point at tone end and a broad blade at the other.
PICKBACK
PICK'BACK, adjective On the back.
PICKED
PICK'ED, participle passive Plucked off by the fingers, teeth or claws; cleaned by picking; opened by an instrument; selected.PICK'ED
PICKEDNESS
PICK'EDNESS, noun State of being pointed at the end; sharpness.1. Foppery; spruceness.
PICKEER
PICKEE'R, verb transitive1. To pillage; to pirate.2. To skirmish, as soldiers on the outposts of an army, or in pillaging parties.
PICKER
PICK'ER, noun One that picks or culls.1. A pickax or instrument for picking or separating.2. One that excites a quarrel between himself and another.
PICKEREL
PICK'EREL, noun [from pike.] A small pike, a fish of the genus Esox.
PICKEREL-WEED
PICK'EREL-WEED, noun A plant supposed to breed pickerels.
PICKET
PICK'ET, noun A stake sharpened or pointed; used in fortification and encampments.1. A narrow board pointed; used in making fence.2. A guard posted in front of an army to give n...
PICKETED
PICK'ETED, participle passive Fortified or inclosed with pickets.