About The Word Pica

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Pica

Pica Definition And Meaning |
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What's The Definition Of Pica?
[n] eating earth or clay or chalk; occurs in some primitive tribes or sometimes in cases of nutritional deficiency
[n] magpies [n] a linear unit (1/6 inch) used in printing Synonyms | Synonyms for Pica: em | genus Pica | geophagia | geophagy | pica em Related Terms | Find terms related to Pica: analgesia | anesthesia | anxiety equivalent | ascender | back | bastard type | beard | belly | bevel | black letter | body | cap | capital | case | counter | depraved appetite | descender | em | en | face | fat-faced type | feet | font | groove | italic | letter | ligature | logotype | lower case | majuscule | minuscule | neurasthenia | nick | paresthesia | parorexia | pi | point | print | roman | sans serif | script | shank | shoulder | small cap | small capital | speech abnormality | stamp | stem | type | type body | type class | type lice | typecase | typeface | typefounders | typefoundry | upper case See Also | bird genus | Corvidae | eating | en | family Corvidae | feeding | in | inch | linear unit | magpie | nut | point Pica In Webster's Dictionary \Pi"ca\, n. [L. pica a pie, magpie; in sense 3 prob. named
from some resemblance to the colors of the magpie. Cf. {Pie}
magpie.]
1. (Zo["o]l.) The genus that includes the magpies.
2. (Med.) A vitiated appetite that craves what is unfit for
food, as chalk, ashes, coal, etc.; chthonophagia.
3. (R. C. Ch.) A service-book. See {Pie}. [Obs.]
4. (Print.) A size of type next larger than small pica, and
smaller than English.
Note: This line is printed in pica
Note: Pica is twice the size of nonpareil, and is used as a
standard of measurement in casting leads, cutting
rules, etc., and also as a standard by which to
designate several larger kinds of type, as double pica,
two-line pica, four-line pica, and the like.
{Small pica} (Print.), a size of type next larger than long
primer, and smaller than pica.
Note: This line is printed in small pica
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