piccalilli (pikalili)

[Origin obscure.] A kind of pickle made up of various vegetables, chopped and seasoned with mustard and pungent spices. equiv. to Picens ( Picent- ) and Picenus, pertaining to Picenum, Admirable receipt of a salacacaby of Apicius:. three crusts of pycentine bread, the flesh of a pullet, goat stones, vestine cheese, pine kernels, cucumbers, dried onions minced small; pour a soup over it, garnish it with snow, and send it up in the cacabulum. W. King , Art of Cookery, letter ix. piceous (pish'ius), a . [= Pg. It. piceo , pice us , pitchy, pitch-black, pix ( pic- ), ( pic- ), pitch: see pitch2 .] In bot . and zoöl ., pitch-black; black with faint dark-red tinge. pichelt. A Middle English form of pitch1 and pitch2. pic he2t, n. [Early mod. E., also pyche; IMG:content-0121.jpg:[graphic] piccaninny, pickaninny (pik'a-nin-i), n.; pl. piccaninnies, pickaninnies (-iz). [Also picanin ny; Cuban piquinini, little, an adj. used by negroes, and applied to persons and things; perhaps an accommodation of Sp. pequeño wiño, little infant: pequeño (= Pg. pequeno ), little truncate armadillo, Chlamydophorus trun little, small (cf. It. piccolo, small: see piccolo ); niño, m., a child, boy, niña, a girl.] A baby; a child; especially, the child of a member of any negroid race. You should have seen me coming in state over the paddock with my hair down, and five-and-forty black fellows, lobros, picaninnies , and all, at my heels. You would have laughed. H. Kingsley, Hillyars and Burtons, xxviii. You were an exceedingly small picaninny Some nineteen or twenty short summers ago. F. Locker , The Old Cradle. A poor puny little pickaninny , black as the ace of spades. Harper's Mag., LXXVI. 809. picchet. A Middle English form of pitch1 , pitch2 , and of pike2 .