pigtailed macaque

Zool.: Macacus nemestrinus , a short-tailed mon. key found in Sumatra, Borneo, and the Malay peninsula, where it is frequently domesticated. pig-weed, s . [Eng. pig (1), and weed .] Bot.: The genus Che no podium (q. v.). pig-widg-eon, pig-wig-gin, pig-widg-in, sub . & adj . [Etym. doubtful. Pigwiggin is the name of an elf in Drayton's Nymphidia .] A. As subst .: A fairy; hence applied to anything very small. B. As adj.: Very small, diminutive, pigmy. "Such pig widgeon myrmidons as they." Cleveland: The Rebel Scot. pihl-ite, s . [After Pihl, a Swedish mining director; suff. -ite ( Min .).] Min.: A micaceous mineral, sometimes occurring as a pseudomorph after spodumene. Hardne , 1.5; specific gravity, 2-72-2-74; luster, pearly; color, approaching silver-white, yellowish. Lamine, when rubbed, separate into thin scales. Closely related to pyrophyllite (q. v.), but it contains alkalies. pi-ką, s. [Native name.] Zool.: Any individual of the genus Lagomys (q. v.). pike, *pic, *pyke, s . [Irish pice =a pike, a fork; picioh a pickax; Gaelic pica pike, a pickax; Welsh pig a point, a pike; picell =a javelin; Bret. pika pick, a pickax; Fr. pique . The original sense sharp point or spike; pike , peak , and beak are all variants of the same word; cf. also pick and peck. An initial s has been lost; cf. Lat. spica =a spike. Peak , pick , s.; pique , beak and spike are doublets.] I. Ordinary Language: 1. A military weapon, consisting of a narrow, elongated lance-head fixed to a pole or a simple spike of metal. The end of the staff had also a spike for insertion in the ground, thus allowing a musketeer to keep off the approach of cavalry while attending to his other arms. It is now superseded by the bayonet. "The pikes of the rebel battalions began to shake."Macaulay: Hist . Eng . ch. v. 3118 2. A central spike sometimes used in targets. 3. A peak, a hill or mountain summit; generally used in compound names; as, Langdale Pikes . ( Eng . ) "They are pikes and volcanos."-Aubrey: Wilts, p. 71. *4. A cracowe (q. v.). 5. A hay-fork, especially a pitching-fork. "A rake for to hale up the fitches that lie, A pike for to pike them up, handsome to drie." Tu er: Husbandry Furniture. 6. A large cock of hay. *7. A staff. ( Morte Arthure , fo. 90.) *8. A point, a spike; a pointed or sharp end. " Pyke of a shoo."- Prompt . Parv. 9. A contraction of turnpike (q. v.). II. Technically : spec if., Esox lucius, the Common Pike. It is one of 1. Ichthy.: Any individual of the Esox (q.v.); the larger freshwater fishes, sometimes attaining a length of five or six feet, and much esteemed for food. Pikes are extremely voracious, and, though small fish and frogs form their staple food, the remains of ducks and geese have been found in their stomachs. They are very long-lived; and on the evidence of rings, which in the middle ages were sometimes put in their gill-covers, it has been maintained that some individuals have been captured at the mature age of 250 years. They commence to spawn at three years old; the ova are deposited in March, and the spawning season lasts about three months. The Pikes are migrants, and have been known to travel overland. The head and back are olive-brown, sides paler, belly silvery body mottled with roundish spots, which sometimes form cro -bars on tail. The English name has reference to the elongated form of the fish, or the shape of its snout. "The growth of the pike, if well supplied with food, seems almost unlimited."- Household Words, Feb. 18, 1854, p. 16. *2. Turning : A point or center on which to fasten anything to be turned.