Webster's Dictionary 1913

4159

Pickpenny

Pick″pen′ny (?), n.; pl.Pickpennies (�). A miser; also, a sharper. Dr. H. More.

4160

Pickpocket

Pick″pock′et (?), n. One who steals purses or other articles from pockets. Bentley.

4161

Pickpurse

Pick″purse′ (?), n. One who steals purses, or money from purses. Latimer. Shak.

4162

Picksy

Pick″sy (?), n. See Pixy.

4163

Pickthank

Pick″thank′ (?), n. One who strives to put another under obligation; an officious person; hence, a flatterer. Used also adjectively.Smiling pickthanks, and base newsmongers. Shak.

4164

Picktooth

Pick″tooth′ (?), n. A toothpick. Swift.

4165

Picle

Pi″cle (pĭk″'l), n. [Prob. fr. pightel or pingle.] A small piece of land inclosed with a hedge; a close. [Written also pickle.]

4166

Picnic

Pic″nic (?), n. [Cf. F. piquenique. See Pick, v., and cf. Knickknack.] Formerly, an entertainment at which each person contributed some dish to a common table; now, an excursion...

4167

Picnic (2)

Pic″nic (?), v. i. [imp. & p. p.Picnicked (?); p. pr. & vb. n.Picnicking (?).] To go on a picnic, or pleasure excursion; to eat in public fashion.

4168

Picnicker

Pic″nick‐er (?), n. One who takes part in a picnic.

4169

Picoid

Pi″coid (?), a. [Picus + -oid.] (Zoöl.) Like or pertaining to the Pici.

4170

Picoline

Pic″o‐line (?), n. [L. pix, picis, pitch + oleum oil + -ine.] (Chem.) Any one of three isometric bases (C6H7N) related to pyridine, and obtained from bone oil, acrolein ammonia,...

4171

Picot

‖Pi′cot″ (?), n. One of many small loops, as of thread, forming an ornamental border, as on a ribbon.

4172

Picotee

{ Pic′o‐tee″ (?), Pic′o‐tine″ (?), } n. [F. picoté dotted, picked.] (Bot.) A variety of carnation having petals of a light color variously dotted and spotted at the edges.

4173

Picquet

Pic″quet (?), n. See Piquet.

4174

Picra

Pi″cra (?), n.(Med.) The powder of aloes with canella, formerly officinal, employed as a cathartic.

4175

Picrate

Pi″crate (?), n.(Chem.) A salt of picric acid.

4176

Picric

Pi″cric (?), a.(Chem.) Pertaining to, or designating, a strong organic acid (called picric acid), intensely bitter.☞ Picric acid is obtained by treating phenol with strong nitri...

4177

Picrite

Pic″rite (?), n.(Min.) A dark green igneous rock, consisting largely of chrysolite, with hornblende, augite, biotite, etc.

4178

Picrolite

Pic″ro‐lite (?), n. [Gr. � bitter + -lite.: cf. F. picrolithe.] (Min.) A fibrous variety of serpentine.

4179

Picromel

Pic″ro‐mel (?), n. [Gr. � bitter + � honey: cf. F. picromel.] (Old Chem.) A colorless viscous substance having a bitter-sweet taste.☞ It was formerly supposed to be the essentia...

4180

Picrotoxin

Pic′ro‐tox″in (?), n. [Gr. � bitter + toxic + -in.] (Chem.) A bitter white crystalline substance found in the cocculus indicus. It is a peculiar poisonous neurotic and intoxican...

4181

Picryl

Pi″cryl (?), n. [Picric + -yl.] (Chem.) The hypothetical radical of picric acid, analogous to phenyl.

4182

Pictish

Pict″ish (?), a. Of or pertaining to Picts; resembling the Picts. “The Pictish peer.” Byron.

4183

Pictograph

Pic″to‐graph (?), n. [See Picture, and -graph.] A picture or hieroglyph representing and expressing an idea. — Pic′to‐graph″ic (#), a.

4184

Pictorial

Pic‐to″ri‐al (?), a. [L. pictorius, fr. pictor a painter, fr. pingere to paint. See Paint.] Of or pertaining to pictures; illustrated by pictures; forming pictures; representing...

4185

Pictoric

{ Pic‐tor″ic (?), Pic‐tor″ic‐al (?), } a. Pictorial.