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Entry 4 senses Webster, 1913

Pica

/pīkə/ · Pi·ca · IPA /ˈpaɪkə/
01 n. The genus that includes the magpies.
  1. 1.
    The genus that includes the magpies.(Zool.)
  2. 2.
    A vitiated appetite that craves what is unfit for food, such as clay, chalk, ashes, coal, etc.; chthonophagia.(Med.)
  3. 3.
    A service-book. See Pie.(R. C. Ch.) [Obs.] See: Pie
  4. 4.
    A size of type next larger than small pica, and smaller than English.(Print.)
Phrases & compounds
Small pica — a size of type next larger than long primer, and smaller than pica.