Pica

['paɪkə]

Definition

(noun.) magpies.

(noun.) an eating disorder, frequent in children, in which non-nutritional objects are eaten persistently.

Typed by Brian--From WordNet

Definition

(n.) The genus that includes the magpies.

(n.) A vitiated appetite that craves what is unfit for food, as chalk, ashes, coal, etc.; chthonophagia.

(n.) A service-book. See Pie.

(n.) A size of type next larger than small pica, and smaller than English.

Checker: Sigmund

Definition

n. a size of type smaller than English and larger than Small pica equal to 12 points in the new system of sizes about 6 lines to the inch used by printers as a standard unit of measurement for thickness and length of leads rules borders &c.—as 6-to-pica or 10-to-pica according as 6 or 10 leads set together make a line of pica.—Double pica a size equal to 2 lines of small pica; Double small pica a size of type giving about 3⅓ lines to the inch; Small pica a size smaller than pica and larger than long-primer about 11 points; Two-line pica a size of about 3 lines to the inch equal to 2 lines of pica or to 24 points.

n. a magpie.

Inputed by Elliot