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- Pica - n. - The genus that includes the magpies.
- Pica - n. - A vitiated appetite that craves what is unfit for food, as chalk, ashes, coal, etc.; chthonophagia.
- Pica - n. - A service-book. See Pie.
- Pica - n. - A size of type next larger than small pica, and smaller than English.
- Picador - n. - A horseman armed with a lance, who in a bullfight receives the first attack of the bull, and excites him by picking him without attempting to kill him.
- Picamar - n. - An oily liquid hydrocarbon extracted from the creosote of beechwood tar. It consists essentially of certain derivatives of pyrogallol.
- Picapare - n. - The finfoot.
- Picard - n. - One of a sect of Adamites in the fifteenth century; -- so called from one Picard of Flanders. See Adamite.
- Picaresque - a. - Applied to that class of literature in which the principal personage is the Spanish picaro, meaning a rascal, a knave, a rogue, an adventurer.
- Picariae - n. pl. - An extensive division of birds which includes the woodpeckers, toucans, trogons, hornbills, kingfishers, motmots, rollers, and goatsuckers. By some writers it is made to include also the cuckoos, swifts, and humming birds.
- Picarian - a. - Of or pertaining to Picariae.
- Picarian - n. - One of the Picariae.
- Picaroon - n. - One who plunders; especially, a plunderer of wrecks; a pirate; a corsair; a marauder; a sharper.
- Picayune - n. - A small coin of the value of six and a quarter cents. See Fippenny bit.
- Picayunish - a. - Petty; paltry; mean; as, a picayunish business.
- Reglet - n. - A strip of wood or metal of the height of a quadrat, used for regulating the space between pages in a chase, and also for spacing out title-pages and other open matter. It is graded to different sizes, and designated by the name of the type that it matches; as, nonpareil reglet, pica reglet, and the like.
- Magpie - n. - Any one of numerous species of the genus Pica and related genera, allied to the jays, but having a long graduated tail.
- Primer - n. - A kind of type, of which there are two species; one, called long primer, intermediate in size between bourgeois and small pica [see Long primer]; the other, called great primer, larger than pica.
- M - n. - A quadrat, the face or top of which is a perfect square; also, the size of such a square in any given size of type, used as the unit of measurement for that type: 500 m's of pica would be a piece of matter whose length and breadth in pica m's multiplied together produce that number.
- Quotation - n. - A piece of hollow type metal, lower than type, and measuring two or more pica ems in length and breadth, used in the blank spaces at the beginning and end of chapters, etc.
- Long primer - - A kind of type, in size between small pica and bourgeois.
- English - n. - A kind of printing type, in size between Pica and Great Primer. See Type.
- Point - n. - A standard unit of measure for the size of type bodies, being one twelfth of the thickness of pica type. See Point system of type, under Type.
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- G76 Ἀδάμ - 76 Ἀδάμ - ἈΔΆΜ - - Adám - ad-am' - of Hebrew origin (אָדָם); Adam, the first man; typically (of Jesus) man (as his representative):--Adam. - Noun Masculine - greek
- G749 ἀρχιερεύς - 749 ἀρχιερεύς - ἈΡΧΙΕΡΕΎΣ - - archiereús - ar-khee-er-yuce' - from ἀρχή and ἱερεύς; the high-priest (literally, of the Jews, typically, Christ); by extension a chief priest:--chief (high) priest, chief of the priests. - Noun Masculine - greek
- H2526 חָם - 2526 חָם - חָם - - Châm - khawm - the same as חָם; hot (from the tropical habitat); Cham, a son of Noah; also (as a patronymic) his descendants or their country; Ham. - - x-pn
- G5364 φιλανθρώπως - 5364 φιλανθρώπως - ΦΙΛΑΝΘΡΏΠΩΣ - - philanthrṓpōs - fil-an-thro'-poce - adverb from a compound of φίλος and ἄνθρωπος; fondly to man ("philanthropically"), i.e. humanely:--courteously. - Adverb - greek
- H3478 יִשְׂרָאֵל - 3478 יִשְׂרָאֵל - יִשְׂרָאֵל - - Yisrâʼêl - yis-raw-ale' - from שָׂרָה and אֵל; he will rule as God; Jisrael, a symbolical name of Jacob; also (typically) of his posterity; Israel. - Proper Name Masculine - x-pn
- H3479 יִשְׂרָאֵל - 3479 יִשְׂרָאֵל - יִשְׂרָאֵל - - Yisrâʼêl - yis-raw-ale' - (Aramaic) corresponding to יִשְׂרָאֵל; {Jisrael, a symbolical name of Jacob; also (typically) of his posterity}; Israel. - Proper Name Masculine - arc