||Pic`a*dor" (?), n. [Sp.] A horseman armed with a lance, who in a
||bullfight receives the first attack of the bull, and excites him by
||picking him without attempting to kill him.
Pic"a*mar` (?), n. [L. pix, picis, pitch + amarus bitter.] (Chem.) An
oily liquid hydrocarbon extracted from the creosote of beechwood tar.
It consists essentially of certain derivatives of pyrogallol.
Pic"a*pare (?), n. (Zoˆl.) The finfoot.
Pic"ard (?), n. (Eccl. Hist.) One of a sect of Adamites in the
fifteenth century; -- so called from one Picard of Flanders. See
Adamite.
Pic`a*resque" (?), a. [F., fr. Sp. picaro rogue.] Applied to that class
of literature in which the principal personage is the Spanish picaro,
meaning a rascal, a knave, a rogue, an adventurer.
||Pi*ca"ri*Ê (?), n. pl. [NL., fr. L. picus a woodpecker.] (Zoˆl.) An
||extensive division of birds which includes the woodpeckers, toucans,
||trogons, hornbills, kingfishers, motmots, rollers, and goatsuckers.
||By some writers it is made to include also the cuckoos, swifts, and
||humming birds.
Pi*ca"ri*an (?), a. (Zoˆl.) Of or pertaining to PicariÊ. -- n. One of
the PicariÊ.
Pic`a*roon" (?), n. [Sp. picaron, aug. of picaro roguish, n., a rogue.]
One who plunders; especially, a plunderer of wrecks; a pirate; a
corsair; a marauder; a sharper. Sir W. Temple.
Pic`a*yune" (?), n. [From the language of the Caribs.] A small coin of
the value of six and a quarter cents. See Fippenny bit. [Local, U.S.]
Pic`a*yun"ish (?), a. Petty; paltry; mean; as, a picayunish business.
[Colloq. U.S.]
{ Pic"ca*dil (?), Pic`ca*dil"ly (?), } n. [OF. piccagilles the several
divisions of pieces fastened together about the brim of the collar of a
doublet, a dim. fr. Sp. picado, p. p. of picar to prick. See Pike.] A
high, stiff collar for the neck; also, a hem or band about the skirt of
a garment, -- worn by men in the 17th century.
Pic"cage (?), n. [LL. piccadium, fr. F. piquer to prick.] (O. Eng. Law)
Money paid at fairs for leave to break ground for booths. Ainsworth.
Pic"ca*lil`li (?), n. A pickle of various vegetables with pungent
species, -- originally made in the East Indies.
||Pic"co*lo (?), n. [It., small.] 1. (Mus.) A small, shrill flute, the
||pitch of which is an octave higher than the ordinary flute; an octave
||flute.