Vocabulary : Piastre to Picador

Piastre : See Piaster.
Piation : The act of making atonement; expiation.
Piatti : Cymbals.
Piazza : An open square in a European town, especially an Italian town; hence (Arch.), an arcaded and roofed gallery; a portico. In the United States the word is popularly applied to a veranda.
Piazzas : of Piazza

Pibcorn : A wind instrument or pipe, with a horn at each end, -- used in Wales.
Pibroch : A Highland air, suited to the particular passion which the musician would either excite or assuage; generally applied to those airs that are played on the bagpipe before the Highlanders when they go out to battle.
Pic : A Turkish cloth measure, varying from 18 to 28 inches.
Pica : The genus that includes the magpies. ;; A vitiated appetite that craves what is unfit for food, as chalk, ashes, coal, etc.; chthonophagia. ;; A service-book. See Pie. ;; A size of type next larger than small pica, and smaller than English.
Picador : 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.

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