Defn: The genus that includes the magpies.
2. (Med.)
Defn: A vitiated appetite that craves what is unfit for food, as chalk, ashes, coal, etc.; chthonophagia.
3. (R. C. Ch.)
Defn: A service-book. See Pie. [Obs.]
4. (Print.)
Defn: 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