Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Dictionary: PHY-TOG'E-NY – PIC'A-MAR
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PHY-TOG'E-NY, n.
The doctrine of the generation of plants.
Pertaining to the description of plants.
PHY-TOG'RA-PHY, n. [Gr. φυτον, a plant, and γραφη, description.]
A description of plants.
PHY-TOG'RA-PHY, n.
The art of describing plants in a systematic manner. [1841 Addenda only.]
PHYT'O-LITE, n. [Gr. φυτον, a plant, and λιθος, a stone.]
A plant petrified, or fossil vegetable.
PHY-TOL'O-GIST, n. [See Phytology.]
One versed in plants, or skilled in phytology; a botanist. – Evelyn.
PHY-TOL'O-GY, n. [Gr. φυτον, a plant; and λογος, discourse.]
A discourse or treatise of plants, or the doctrine of plants; description of the kinds and properties of plants.
PHY-TON'O-MY, n. [Gr. φυτον and νομος.]
The science of the origin and growth of plants.
PHY-TOPH'A-GOUS, a. [Gr. φυτον, a plant; and φαγω, to eat.]
Eating or subsisting on plants.
PI'A-BA, n.
A small fresh-water fish of Brazil, about the size of the minnow, much esteemed for food. – Encyc.
PI'A-CLE, n. [L. piaculum.]
An enormous crime. [Not used.] – Howell.
PI-AC'U-LAR, or PI-AC'U-LOUS, a. [L. piacularis, from pio, to expiate.]
- Expiatory; having power to atone.
- Requiring expiation. – Brown.
- Criminal; atrociously bad. – Glanville. [These words are little used.]
PIA-MATER, n. [Pia mater; L.]
In anatomy, a thin membrane immediately investing the brain. – Coxe.
PI'A-NET, n. [L. pica or picus.]
- A bird, the lesser woodpecker. – Bailey.
- The magpie.
PIANISSIMO, adv. [Pianissimo.]
Very soft.
PI'A-NIST, n.
A performer on the forte-piano, or one well skilled in it. – Busby.
PIANO, adv. [Piano.]
In music, soft.
PI'A-NO-FORTE, n. [It. piano, from L. planus, plain, smooth, and It. forte, L. fortis, strong.]
A keyed musical instrument of German origin and of the harpsichord kind, but smaller; so called from its softer notes or expressions. Its tones are produced by hammers instead of quills, like the virginal and spinet. – Encyc. Cyc.
PI-AS'TER, n. [It. piastra, a thin plate of metal, or a dollar. See Plate.]
An Italian coin of about 80 cents value, or 3s. 7d. sterling. But the value is different in different states or countries. It is called also, a piece of eight.
PI-A'TION, n. [L. piatio.]
The act of making atonement.
PI'AZ-ZA, n. [It. for plazza; Sp. plaza; Port. praça, for plaça; Fr. place; Eng. id.; D. plaats; G. platz; Dan. plads; Sw. plats.]
In building, a portico or covered walk supported by arches or columns. – Encyc.
PIB'-CORN, n. [W. pipe-horn.]
Among the Welsh, a wind instrument or pipe with a horn at each end.
PI'BROCH, n. [Gael. piobaireachd, pipe-music; Celtic pib, piob, a pipe.]
A wild irregular species of music, peculiar to the Highlands of Scotland. It is performed on a bagpipe, and adapted to excite or assuage passion, and particularly to rouse a martial spirit among troops going to battle. – Encyc. Jamieson.
PI'CA, n.
- In ornithology, the pie or magpie, a species of Corvus.
- In medicine, a vitiated appetite which makes the patient crave what is unfit for food, as chalk, ashes, coal, &c.
- A printing type of a large size; probably named from litera picata, a great black letter at the beginning of some new order in the liturgy; hence,
- Pica, Pye or pie, formerly an ordinary, a table or directory for devotional services; also, an alphabetical catalogue of names and things in rolls and records. – Encyc. Pica marina, the sea-pye, ostrolegus, or oyster-catcher; a grallatory aquatic fowl of the genus Hæmatopus. This fowl feeds on oysters, limpets and marine insects.
PIC'A-MAR, n. [L. pix and amarum.]
The bitter principle of pitch, an oil-like transparent fluid.