Defn: See Pickeerer. [R.]
PIQUET
Piqu"et, n.
Defn: See Picket. [R.]
PIQUET
Pi*quet", n. Etym: [F., prob. fr. pique. See Pique, Pike, and
Picket.]
Defn: A game at cards played between two persons, with thirty-two cards, all the deuces, threes, fours, fives, and sixes, being set aside. [Written also picket and picquet.]
PIRACY
Pi"ra*cy, n.; pl. Piracies. Etym: [Cf. LL. piratia, Gr. Pirate.]
1. The act or crime of a pirate.
2. (Common Law)
Defn: Robbery on the high seas; the taking of property from others on the open sea by open violence; without lawful authority, and with intent to steal; — a crime answering to robbery on land.
Note: By statute law several other offenses committed on the seas (as trading with known pirates, or engaging in the slave trade) have been made piracy.