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pica
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Word definitions for pica in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"pathological craving for substance unfit for food" (such as chalk), 1560s, from Medieval Latin pica "magpie" (see pie (n.2)), probably translating Greek kissa , kitta "magpie, jay," also "false appetite." The connecting notion may be the birds' indiscriminate ...
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Word definitions in WordNet
n. a linear unit (1/6 inch) used in printing [syn: em , pica em ] magpies [syn: genus Pica ] eating earth or clay or chalk; occurs in some primitive tribes or sometimes in cases of nutritional deficiency [syn: geophagy , geophagia ]
Usage examples of pica.
The three were sitting in the smoky shadows of the Mos Eisley Cantina, sipping green Pica Thundercloud and watching the bounty hunters drift in from around the galaxy: Weequays, Aqualish, Arcona, Defels, Kauronians, Fneebs, Quill-heads, Bomodons, Alpheridians - and the inevitable Ganks.
Sus articulaciones crujieron como bisagras oxidadas cuando los gigantes recogieron sus picas y sus alabardas y se pusieron de pie.
Men had always pushed forward across Pica as they pleased, not least because sims lacked the bns to fight back.
Junto a ellos había alabardas y picas con hojas de cobre apoyadas sobre las paredes o tiradas en el suelo.
But after no more than a moment's gravity he joined in the general congratulation and then told them (not without a certain satisfaction, having suffered much from cat-harpins and nether dog-pawls) that pica was the type that gave you six ems to the inch, and that all books, folio, quarto, octavo, duodecimo or even less, took their dimensions from the original sheets, folded twice, four times, eight times and so on, as the case might be, the original sheets having themselves various sizes and names, as foolscap, crown, quad crown, double quad crown, post, demy, royal and many more.