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Pica
Open directlyWebster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828
Part of speech: noun (n.)
1. The genus that includes the magpies.
2. A vitiated appetite that craves what is unfit for food, as chalk, ashes, coal, etc.; chthonophagia.
3. A service-book. See Pie. [Obs.]
4. A size of type next larger than small pica, and smaller than English.