Vocabulary : Picamar to Piccadil

Picamar : An oily liquid hydrocarbon extracted from the creosote of beechwood tar. It consists essentially of certain derivatives of pyrogallol.
Picapare : The finfoot.
Picard : One of a sect of Adamites in the fifteenth century; -- so called from one Picard of Flanders. See Adamite.
Picaresque : Applied to that class of literature in which the principal personage is the Spanish picaro, meaning a rascal, a knave, a rogue, an adventurer.
Picariae : An extensive division of birds which includes the woodpeckers, toucans, trogons, hornbills, kingfishers, motmots, rollers, and goatsuckers. By some writers it is made to include also the cuckoos, swifts, and humming birds.
Picarian : Of or pertaining to Picariae. ;; One of the Picariae.
Picaroon : One who plunders; especially, a plunderer of wrecks; a pirate; a corsair; a marauder; a sharper.
Picayune : A small coin of the value of six and a quarter cents. See Fippenny bit.
Picayunish : Petty; paltry; mean; as, a picayunish business.
Piccadil : Alt. of Piccadilly
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