picamar

[Latin pix, gen it. pic ( is )=pitch, and amarus bitter.] Chem.: An oily body, one of the products of the distillation of wood-tar; specific gravity, 1'10. It is unctuous to the touch, has a burning taste, and boils at 270°. With alkalies it forms crystallizable compounds. pic-a-nin-ny, s. [PICKANINNY.] pic-ard, s. [For etym. see def.] Church History ( pl .): A sect of Adamites (q. v.), founded by Picard, a native of Flanders. They were exterminated by Zisca, the Hu ite leader. pic-a-rěsque' (que as k), adj . [Fr., from Sp. picaron a picaroon (q. v.).] Pertaining to, or treating of, rogues or robbers; spec if., applied to books dealing with the fortunes of rogues or adventurers, such as Gil Blas . pi-cär-I-æ, s. pl. [Lat. pic ( us ) (q. v.); fem. pl. adj. suff. -ariæ.] Ornith.: Picarian Birds; an order of Carinate, including the Scan sores and Fi irostres of older authors. They vary much in outward form, but nearly all po e one common osteological character-a double notch in the hinder margin of the sternum. Some authors divide the order into Zygodactyle and Fi irostres, calling the former Scansorial, and the latter Fi irostral, or Gre orial, Picariæ, and including the Parrots, now often treated as a separate group, under Zygodactyle. [PSITTACI.]