PICAS

Noun

PICAs

plural of PICA

Anagrams

• APICs, CISPA, ISPCA, Spica, aspic, pacis, scapi, spica

Noun

picas

plural of pica

Anagrams

• APICs, CISPA, ISPCA, Spica, aspic, pacis, scapi, spica

Source: Wiktionary


PICA

Pi"ca, n. Etym: [L. pica a pie, magpie; in sense 3 prob. named from some resemblance to the colors of the magpie. Cf. Pie magpie.]

1. (Zoöl.)

Definition: The genus that includes the magpies.

2. (Med.)

Definition: A vitiated appetite that craves what is unfit for food, as chalk, ashes, coal, etc.; chthonophagia.

3. (R. C. Ch.)

Definition: A service-book. See Pie. [Obs.]

4. (Print.)

Definition: A size of type next larger than small pica, and smaller than English.

Note: This line is printed in pica

Note: Pica is twice the size of nonpareil, and is used as a standard of measurement in casting leads, cutting rules, etc., and also as a standard by which to designate several larger kinds of type, as double pica, two-line pica, four-line pica, and the like. Small pica (Print.), a size of type next larger than long primer, and smaller than pica.

Note: This line is printed in small pica

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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