Webster's Dictionary 1913

4078

Pial

Pi″al (?), a.(Anat.) Pertaining to the pia mater.

4079

Pian

‖Pian (?), n. [Pg. pian, epian, or. Sp. pian; from the native name in South America: cf. F. pian.] (Med.) The yaws. See Yaws.

4080

Pianet

Pi″a‐net′ (?), n. [Cf. Pie magpie.] (Zoöl.) (a) The magpie. [Written also pianate, and pyenate.] (b) The lesser woodpecker. Bailey.

4081

Pianette

Pi‐a‐nette″ (?), n. [Dim. of piano.] (Mus.) A small piano; a pianino.

4082

Pianino

‖Pi′a‐ni″no (?), n. [It., dim. of piano, adj. See Piano.] (Mus.) A pianette, or small piano.

4083

Pianissimo

‖Pi′a‐nis″si‐mo (?), a. [It., superl. of piano.] (Mus.) Very soft; — a direction to execute a passage as softly as possible. (Abbrev. pp.)

4084

Pianist

Pi‐an″ist (?), n. [Cf. F. pianiste, It. pianista.] A performer, esp. a skilled performer, on the piano.

4085

Piano

‖Pi‐a″no (?), a. & adv. [It., even, smooth, soft, fr. L. planus even, level.] (Mus.) Soft; — a direction to the performer to execute a certain passage softly, and with diminishe...

4086

Piano (2)

{ Pi‐an″o (?), Pi‐an″o‐for′te (?), } n. [It. piano soft (fr. L. planus even, smooth; see Plain, a.) + It. forte strong, fr. L. fortis (see Fort).] (Mus.) A well-known musical in...

4087

Pianograph

Pi‐an″o‐graph (?), n. [Piano + -graph.] (Mus.) A form of melodiograph applied to a piano.

4088

Piapec

Pi″a‐pec (?), n. [Cf. Pie a magpie.] (Zoöl.) A West African pie (Ptilostomus Senegalensis).

4089

Piarist

Pi″a‐rist (?), n. [L. pius pious.] (R. C. Ch.) One of a religious order who are the regular clerks of the Scuole Pie (religious schools), an institute of secondary education, fo...

4090

Piassava

Pi‐as″sa‐va (?), n. [Pg. piasaba.] A fibrous product of two Brazilian palm trees (Attalea funifera and Leopoldinia Piassaba), — used in making brooms, and for other purposes. Ca...

4091

Piaster

Pi‐as″ter (?), n. [F. piastre, It. piastra a thin plate of metal, a dollar, LL. piastra, fr. L. emplastrum. See Plaster.] A silver coin of Spain and various other countries. See...

4092

Piastre

Pi‐as″tre (?), n. See Piaster.

4093

Piation

Pi‐a″tion (?), n. [L. piatio. See Piacle.] The act of making atonement; expiation.

4094

Piatti

‖Pi‐at″ti (?), n. pl.(Mus.) Cymbals. [Written also pyatti.]

4095

Piazza

Pi‐az″za (?), n.; pl.Piazzas (#). [It., place, square, market place, L. platea street, courtyard. See Place.] An open square in a European town, especially an Italian town; henc...

4096

Pibcorn

Pib″corn′ (?), n. [W. pib pipe + corn horn.] (Mus.) A wind instrument or pipe, with a horn at each end, — used in Wales.

4097

Pibroch

Pi″broch (?), n. [Gael. piobaireachd pipe music, fr. piobair a piper, fr. pioba pipe, bagpipe, from English. See Pipe, n.] A Highland air, suited to the particular passion which...

4098

Pic

Pic (?), n. [Cf. F. pic.] A Turkish cloth measure, varying from 18 to 28 inches.

4099

Pica

Pi″ca (?), n. [L. pica a pie, magpie; in sense 3 prob. named from some resemblance to the colors of the magpie. Cf. Pie magpie.] 1. (Zoöl.) The genus that includes the magpies.2...

4100

Picador

‖Pic′a‐dor″ (?), n. 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.

4101

Picamar

Pic″a‐mar′ (?), n. [L. pix, picis, pitch + amarus bitter.] (Chem.) An oily liquid hydrocarbon extracted from the creosote of beechwood tar. It consists essentially of certain de...

4102

Picapare

Pic″a‐pare (?), n.(Zoöl.) The finfoot.

4103

Picard

Pic″ard (?), n.(Eccl. Hist.) One of a sect of Adamites in the fifteenth century; — so called from one Picard of Flanders. See Adamite.

4104

Picaresque

Pic′a‐resque″ (?), a. [F., fr. Sp. picaro rogue.] Applied to that class of literature in which the principal personage is the Spanish picaro, meaning a rascal, a knave, a rogue,...