Pica
6 definitions retrieved  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. (Zool.) The genus that includes the magpies. [1913 Webster] 2. (Med.) A vitiated appetite that craves what is unfit for food, such as clay, chalk, ashes, coal, etc.; chthonophagia. Syn: allotriophagy. [1913 Webster] 3. (R. C. Ch.) A service-book. See Pie. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] 4. (Print.) A size of type next larger than small pica, and smaller than English. [1913 Webster] Note: This line is printed in pica [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] Small pica (Print.), a size of type next larger than long primer, and smaller than pica. [1913 Webster] Note: This line is printed in small pica [1913 Webster] allotriophagy \al`lo*tri*oph"a*gy\ ([a^]l`l[-o]*tr[i^]*[o^]f"[.a]*j[y^]), n. [Gr. 'allo`trios strange + fagei^n to eat: cf. F. allotriophagie.] (Med.) A depraved appetite; a desire for strange or nonnutritious food, such as clay or starch. Called also pica. --AS [1913 Webster]  pica n 1: an eating disorder, frequent in children, in which non- nutritional objects are eaten persistently 2: a linear unit (1/6 inch) used in printing [syn: em, {pica em}, pica] 3: magpies [syn: Pica, genus Pica]  pica Elster  pica magpie  57 Moby Thesaurus words for "pica": analgesia, anesthesia, anxiety equivalent, ascender, back, bastard type, beard, belly, bevel, black letter, body, cap, capital, case, counter, depraved appetite, descender, em, en, face, fat-faced type, feet, font, groove, italic, letter, ligature, logotype, lower case, majuscule, minuscule, neurasthenia, nick, paresthesia, parorexia, pi, point, print, roman, sans serif, script, shank, shoulder, small cap, small capital, speech abnormality, stamp, stem, type, type body, type class, type lice, typecase, typeface, typefounders, typefoundry, upper case Pica related |
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