Pice (?), n. [Hind. pais] A small copper coin of the East Indies, worth
less than a cent. Malcom.
||Pic"e*a (?), n. [L., the pitch pine, from pix, picis, pitch.] (Bot.)
||A genus of coniferous trees of the northen hemisphere, including the
||Norway spruce and the American black and white spruces. These trees
||have pendent cones, which do not readily fall to pieces, in this and
||other respects differing from the firs.
Pi"cene (?), n. [See Piceous.] (Chem.) A hydrocarbon (C&?;H&?;)
extracted from the pitchy residue of coal tar and petroleum as a bluish
fluorescent crystalline substance.
Pic"e*ous (?), a. [L. piceus, fr. pix, picis, pitch.] Of or pertaining
to pitch; resembling pitch in color or quality; pitchy.
Pi"chey (?), n. [Native name.] (Zoˆl.) A Brazilian armadillo (Dasypus
minutus); the little armadillo. [Written also pichiy.]
||Pi`chi*ci*a"go (?), n. [Native name.] (Zoˆl.) A small, burrowing,
||South American edentate (Chlamyphorus truncatus), allied to the
||armadillos. The shell is attached only along the back. [Written also
||pichyciego.]
Pich"u*rim bean` (?). (Bot.) The seed of a Brazilian lauraceous tree
(Nectandra Puchury) of a taste and smell between those of nutmeg and of
sassafras, -- sometimes used medicinally. Called also sassafras nut.
||Pi"ci (?), n. pl. [NL., fr. L. picus a woodpecker.] (Zoˆl.) A
||division of birds including the woodpeckers and wrynecks.
Pi"ci*form (?), a. (Zoˆl.) Of or pertaining to Piciformes.
||Pic`i*for"mes (?), n. pl. [NL. See Picus, and -Form.] (Zoˆl.) A group
||of birds including the woodpeckers, toucans, barbets, colies,
||kingfishes, hornbills, and some other related groups.
Pi"cine (?), a. (Zoˆl.) Of or pertaining to the woodpeckers (Pici), or
to the Piciformes.
Pick (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Picked (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Picking.]
[OE. picken, pikken, to prick, peck; akin to Icel. pikka, Sw. picka,
Dan. pikke, D. pikken, G. picken, F. piquer, W. pigo. Cf. Peck, v.,
Pike, Pitch to throw.] 1. To throw; to pitch. [Obs.]
As high as I could pick my lance.
Shak.
2. To peck at, as a bird with its beak; to strike at with anything
pointed; to act upon with a pointed instrument; to pierce; to prick, as
with a pin.
3. To separate or open by means of a sharp point or points; as, to pick
matted wool, cotton, oakum, etc.