pica

[Lat. pica =a magpie.] [PIE, s.] *1. An alphabetical catalogue of things and names in rolls and records. 2. Eccles .: The same as PIE (2), s ., II. 1. 3. Medicine : A vitiated appetite, which causes the person affected to crave for things unfit for food, as coal chalk, . [PIQUE (1), s ., 2.] picco 4. Print.: A name given to a size of type, 72 ems to the foot, or 6x6 to the square inch. It is the standard of measurement in printing. This is Pica type. 5. Ornith .: A genus of Corvine (in older cla ifications, of Corvidae), with nine species from the Pale arctic region, Arctic America, and California. Bill entire, with cutting edges, furnished at the base with setaceous feathers lying forward; tail very long. graduated. Pica rustic a, the Magpie, is British.