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Pic"kler (?), n. One who makes pickles.

Pick"lock` (?), n. 1. An instrument for picking locks. Shak.

2. One who picks locks; a thief. "A picklock of secrets." Jer. Taylor.

Pick"mire` (?), n. [So called from its picking its food from the mire.] (Zoˆl.) The pewit, or black-headed gull. [Prov. Eng.]

Pick"nick (?), n. See Picnic.

Pick"pack` (?), adv. Pickaback.

Pick"pen`ny (?), n.; pl. Pickpennies (&?;). A miser; also, a sharper. Dr. H. More.

Pick"pock`et (?), n. One who steals purses or other articles from pockets. Bentley.

Pick"purse` (?), n. One who steals purses, or money from purses. Latimer. Shak.

Pick"sy (?), n. See Pixy.

Pick"thank` (?), n. One who strives to put another under obligation; an officious person; hence, a flatterer. Used also adjectively.

Smiling pickthanks, and base newsmongers.

Shak.

Pick"tooth` (?), n. A toothpick. [Obs.] Swift.

Pi"cle (pk"'l), n. [Prob. fr. pightel or pingle.] A small piece of land inclosed with a hedge; a close. [Obs.] [Written also pickle.]

Pic"nic (?), n. [Cf. F. piquenique. See Pick, v., and cf. Knickknack.] Formerly, an entertainment at which each person contributed some dish to a common table; now, an excursion or pleasure party in which the members partake of a collation or repast (usually in the open air, and from food carried by themselves).

Pic"nic (?), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Picnicked (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Picnicking (?).] To go on a picnic, or pleasure excursion; to eat in public fashion.

Pic"nick*er (?), n. One who takes part in a picnic.

Pi"coid (?), a. [Picus + - oid.] (Zoˆl.) Like or pertaining to the Pici.

Pic"o*line (?), n. [L. pix, picis, pitch + oleum oil + -ine.] (Chem.) Any one of three isometric bases (C6H7N) related to pyridine, and obtained from bone oil, acrolein ammonia, and coal-tar naphtha, as colorless mobile liquids of strong odor; -- called also methyl pyridine.

{ Pic`o*tee" (?), Pic`o*tine" (?), } n. [F. picotÈ dotted, picked.] (Bot.) A variety of carnation having petals of a light color variously dotted and spotted at the edges.

Pic"quet (?), n. See Piquet.

Pi"cra (?), n. [L., fr. Gr. &?; sharp, bitter.] (Med.) The powder of aloes with canella, formerly officinal, employed as a cathartic.

Pi"crate (?), n. (Chem.) A salt of picric acid.

Pi"cric (?), a. [Gr. &?; bitter.] (Chem.) Pertaining to, or designating, a strong organic acid (called picric acid), intensely bitter.

Picric acid is obtained by treating phenol with strong nitric acid, as a brilliant yellow crystalline substance, C6H2(NO2)3.OH. It is used in dyeing silk and wool, and also in the manufacture of explosives, as it is very unstable when heated. Called also trinitrophenol, and formerly carbazotic acid.

Pic"rite (?), n. [From Gr. &?; bitter.] (Min.) A dark green igneous rock, consisting largely of chrysolite, with hornblende, augite, biotite, etc.

Pic"ro*lite (?), n. [Gr. &?; bitter + -lite.: cf. F. picrolithe.] (Min.) A fibrous variety of serpentine.