3. One that is picked up, as a meal hastily got up for the occasion, a chance acquaintance, an informal game, etc.
||Pi`cot" (?), n. [F.] One of many small loops, as of thread, forming an ornamental border, as on a ribbon.
Pic"ture (?), n. -- Animated picture, a moving picture.
||Pierre`-per`du" (?), n. [F. pierre perdue lost stone.] Blocks of stone or concrete heaped loosely in the water to make a foundation (as for a sea wall), a mole, etc.
Pif"fle (?), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Piffled (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Piffling (?).] To be sequeamish or delicate; hence, to act or talk triflingly or ineffectively; to twaddle; piddle. [Dial. or Slang]
Pif"fle, n. Act of piffling; trifling talk or action; piddling; twaddle. [Dial. or Slang] "Futile piffle." Kipling.
Pi"geon*wing` (?), n. 1. A wing of a pigeon, or a wing like it.
2. An old mode of dressing men's side hair in a form likened to a pigeon's wings; also, a wig similarly shaped.
3. (Dancing) A fancy step executed by jumping and striking the legs together; as, to cut a pigeonwing.