PICADOR
Pic`a*dor", n. Etym: [Sp.]
Defn: A horseman armed with a lance, who in a bullfight receives the first attack of the bull, and excites him by picking him without attempting to kill him.
PICAMAR
Pic"a*mar`, n. Etym: [L. pix, picis, pitch + amarus bitter.] (Chem.)
Defn: An oily liquid hydrocarbon extracted from the creosote of beechwood tar. It consists essentially of certain derivatives of pyrogallol.
PICAPARE
Pic"a*pare, n. (Zoöl.)
Defn: The finfoot.
PICARD
Pic"ard, n. (Eccl. Hist.)
Defn: One of a sect of Adamites in the fifteenth century; — so called from one Picard of Flanders. See Adamite.
PICARESQUE
Pic`a*resque", a. Etym: [F., fr. Sp. picaro rogue.]
Defn: Applied to that class of literature in which the principal personage is the Spanish picaro, meaning a rascal, a knave, a rogue, an adventurer.