Pick"mire` (?), n. [So called from its picking its food from the mire.]
(Zoˆl.) The pewit, or black-headed gull. [Prov. Eng.]
Pick"nick (?), n. See Picnic.
Pick"pack` (?), adv. Pickaback.
Pick"pen`ny (?), n.; pl. Pickpennies (&?;). A miser; also, a sharper.
Dr. H. More.
Pick"pock`et (?), n. One who steals purses or other articles from
pockets. Bentley.
Pick"purse` (?), n. One who steals purses, or money from purses.
Latimer. Shak.
Pick"sy (?), n. See Pixy.
Pick"thank` (?), n. One who strives to put another under obligation; an
officious person; hence, a flatterer. Used also adjectively.
Smiling pickthanks, and base newsmongers.
Shak.
Pick"tooth` (?), n. A toothpick. [Obs.] Swift.
Pi"cle (pk"'l), n. [Prob. fr. pightel or pingle.] A small piece of land
inclosed with a hedge; a close. [Obs.] [Written also pickle.]
Pic"nic (?), n. [Cf. F. piquenique. See Pick, v., and cf. Knickknack.]
Formerly, an entertainment at which each person contributed some dish
to a common table; now, an excursion or pleasure party in which the
members partake of a collation or repast (usually in the open air, and
from food carried by themselves).
Pic"nic (?), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Picnicked (?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Picnicking (?).] To go on a picnic, or pleasure excursion; to eat in
public fashion.
Pic"nick*er (?), n. One who takes part in a picnic.
Pi"coid (?), a. [Picus + - oid.] (Zoˆl.) Like or pertaining to the
Pici.
Pic"o*line (?), n. [L. pix, picis, pitch + oleum oil + -ine.] (Chem.)
Any one of three isometric bases (C6H7N) related to pyridine, and
obtained from bone oil, acrolein ammonia, and coal-tar naphtha, as
colorless mobile liquids of strong odor; -- called also methyl
pyridine.
{ Pic`o*tee" (?), Pic`o*tine" (?), } n. [F. picotÈ dotted, picked.]
(Bot.) A variety of carnation having petals of a light color variously
dotted and spotted at the edges.
Pic"quet (?), n. See Piquet.
Pi"cra (?), n. [L., fr. Gr. &?; sharp, bitter.] (Med.) The powder of
aloes with canella, formerly officinal, employed as a cathartic.
Pi"crate (?), n. (Chem.) A salt of picric acid.
Pi"cric (?), a. [Gr. &?; bitter.] (Chem.) Pertaining to, or
designating, a strong organic acid (called picric acid), intensely
bitter.
Picric acid is obtained by treating phenol with strong nitric acid, as
a brilliant yellow crystalline substance, C6H2(NO2)3.OH. It is used in
dyeing silk and wool, and also in the manufacture of explosives, as it
is very unstable when heated. Called also trinitrophenol, and formerly
carbazotic acid.
Pic"rite (?), n. [From Gr. &?; bitter.] (Min.) A dark green igneous
rock, consisting largely of chrysolite, with hornblende, augite,
biotite, etc.
Pic"ro*lite (?), n. [Gr. &?; bitter + -lite.: cf. F. picrolithe.]
(Min.) A fibrous variety of serpentine.
Pic"ro*mel (?), n. [Gr. &?; bitter + &?; honey: cf. F. picromel.] (Old
Chem.) A colorless viscous substance having a bitter-sweet taste.
It was formerly supposed to be the essential principle of the bile, but
is now known to be a mixture, principally of salts of glycocholic and
taurocholic acids.
Pic`ro*tox"in (?), n. [Gr. &?; bitter + toxic + -in.] (Chem.) A bitter
white crystalline substance found in the cocculus indicus. It is a
peculiar poisonous neurotic and intoxicant, and consists of a mixture
of several neutral substances.
Pi"cryl (?), n. [Picric + - yl.] (Chem.) The hypothetical radical of
picric acid, analogous to phenyl.
Pict"ish (?), a. Of or pertaining to Picts; resembling the Picts. "The
Pictish peer." Byron.
Pic"to*graph (?), n. [See Picture, and -graph.] A picture or hieroglyph
representing and expressing an idea. -- Pic`to*graph"ic (#), a.
Pic*to"ri*al (?), a. [L. pictorius, fr. pictor a painter, fr. pingere
to paint. See Paint.] Of or pertaining to pictures; illustrated by
pictures; forming pictures; representing with the clearness of a
picture; as, a pictorial dictionary; a pictorial imagination.
"Pictorial rhetoric." Ruskin. -- Pic*to"ri*al*ly, adv.
{ Pic*tor"ic (?), Pic*tor"ic*al (?), } a. Pictorial. [Obs.]
Picts (?), n. pl.; sing. Pict (&?;). [L. Picti; cf. AS. Peohtas.]
(Ethnol.) A race of people of uncertain origin, who inhabited Scotland
in early times.
||Pic*tu"ra (?), n. [L., a painting.] (Zoˆl.) Pattern of coloration.
Pic"tur*a*ble (?), a. Capable of being pictured, or represented by a
picture.
Pic"tur*al (?), a. Pictorial. [R.] Sir W. Scott.
Pic"tur*al, n. A picture. [Obs.] Spenser.
Pic"ture (?), n. [L. pictura, fr. pingere, pictum, to paint: cf. F.
peinture. See Paint.] 1. The art of painting; representation by
painting. [Obs.]
Any well-expressed image . . . either in picture or sculpture.
Sir H. Wotton.
2. A representation of anything (as a person, a landscape, a building)
upon canvas, paper, or other surface, produced by means of painting,
drawing, engraving, photography, etc.; a representation in colors. By
extension, a figure; a model.
Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects.
Bacon.
The young king's picture . . . in virgin wax.
Howell.
3. An image or resemblance; a representation, either to the eye or to
the mind; that which, by its likeness, brings vividly to mind some
other thing; as, a child is the picture of his father; the man is the
picture of grief.
My eyes make pictures when they are shut.
Coleridge.
Picture is often used adjectively, or in forming self-explaining
compounds; as, picture book or picture- book, picture frame or
picture-frame, picture seller or picture-seller, etc.
Picture gallery, a gallery, or large apartment, devoted to the
exhibition of pictures. -- Picture red, a rod of metal tube fixed to
the walls of a room, from which pictures are hung. -- Picture writing.
(a) The art of recording events, or of expressing messages, by means of
pictures representing the actions or circumstances in question. Tylor.
(b) The record or message so represented; as, the picture writing of
the American Indians.
Syn. -- Picture, Painting. Every kind of representation by drawing or
painting is a picture, whether made with oil colors, water colors,
pencil, crayons, or India ink; strictly, a painting is a picture made
by means of colored paints, usually applied moist with a brush.
Pic"ture, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Pictured (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Picturing.]
To draw or paint a resemblance of; to delineate; to represent; to form
or present an ideal likeness of; to bring before the mind. "I . . . do
picture it in my mind." Spenser.