PICA

pica. Pica, n. the green sickness, a printing letter, a bird

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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. 1. (Zoöl.) The genus that includes the magpies.
2. 2. (Med.) A vitiated appetite that craves what is unfit for food, as chalk, ashes, coal, etc.; chthonophagia.
3. 3. (R. C. Ch.) A service-book. See Pie.
4. 4. (Print.) A size of type next larger than small pica, and smaller than English.
☞ This line is printed in pica ☞ 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. ☞ This line is printed in small pica