pica

In medicine, a vitiated craving for what is unfit for food, as chalk, ashes, or coal.

Eccles., same as ordinal, 2 .

An alphabetical catalogue of names and things in rolls and records.

A genus of oscine passerine birds of the family Corvidæ and sub-family Garrulinæ, having an extremely long graduated tail, the nostrils covered with antrorse plumules, and the plumage iridescent black and white; the magpies.

[lowercase] A bird of the genus Pica; a pie; a magpie.

A size of printing-type, about 6 lines to the inch, intermediate between the sizes English (larger) and small-pica (smaller).

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.