Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In medicine, a vitiated craving for what is unfit for food, as chalk, ashes, or coal.
- noun Eccles., same as
ordinal , 2 . - noun An alphabetical catalogue of names and things in rolls and records.
- noun A genus of oscine passerine birds of the family Corvidæ and sub-family Garrulinæ, having an extremely long graduated tail, the nostrils covered with antrorse plumules, and the plumage iridescent black and white; the magpies.
- noun [lowercase] A bird of the genus Pica; a pie; a magpie.
- noun A size of printing-type, about 6 lines to the inch, intermediate between the sizes English (larger) and small-pica (smaller).
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) The genus that includes the magpies.
- noun (Med.) A vitiated appetite that craves what is unfit for food, as chalk, ashes, coal, etc.; chthonophagia.
- noun (R. C. Ch.), obsolete A service-book. See
Pie . - noun (Print.) A size of type next larger than small pica, and smaller than English.
- noun (Print.) a size of type next larger than long primer, and smaller than pica.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Archaic form of
pika . (small rodent) - noun A
vitiated appetite thatcraves what is unfit for food, as chalk, ashes, coal, etc.;chthonophagia . - noun typography, uncountable A size of
type . - noun typography, countable A unit of
measure equivalent to 12points . - noun obsolete A
Roman Catholic service book; a type of ecclesiastical calendar book.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a linear unit (1/6 inch) used in printing
- noun an eating disorder, frequent in children, in which non-nutritional objects are eaten persistently
- noun magpies
Etymologies
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That's because, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, the word "pie" - defined as a baked dish topped with and sometimes also surrounded by pastry - may well derive from the Latin word pica, meaning magpie.
News 2011
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That's because, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, the word "pie" - defined as a baked dish topped with and sometimes also surrounded by pastry - may well derive from the Latin word pica, meaning magpie.
News 2011
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"The new message is sent to the Bot class to create a new robot and associate with it the name pica := is for assignment"
Archive 2007-07-01 Bill Kerr 2007
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"The new message is sent to the Bot class to create a new robot and associate with it the name pica := is for assignment"
messages are different in Smalltalk Bill Kerr 2007
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Children who are iron deficient will eat dirt, a condition known as pica, in an attempt to get what their body needs.
The UltraMetabolism Cookbook M.D. Mark Hyman 2007
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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: They had a disorder called pica, where they ate things that aren ` t food, like chalk, dirt, batteries, things like that.
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If you have it, you are going to see these symptoms -- weakness and fatigue, shortness of breath, headaches, difficulty concentrating, irritability, dizziness, ringing in the ears, and something known as pica -- this is a very interesting phenomenon, Paula.
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The twelfth part of a pica is the unit, called a _point_, by which type bodies are measured.
Up To Date Business Home Study Circle Library Series (Volume II.) Various
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The habit of dirt eating or clay-eating, called pica, is well authenticated in many countries.
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The habit of dirt eating or clay-eating, called pica, is well authenticated in many countries.
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