"Pica" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... in particular, to ascertain the grades which exist in the classification of animals. In the line of the aves, Mr. Swainson finds these to be nine, the species pica, for example, being ...
— Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation • Robert Chambers
... or clay-eating, called pica, is well authenticated in many countries. The Ephemerides contains mention of it; Hunter speaks of the blacks who eat potters' clay; Bartholinus describes dirt-eating as does also a Castro. Properly speaking, dirt-eating ...
— Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine • George M. Gould
... (publication) 531; composition. print, letterpress, text; context, note, page, column. typography; stereotype, electrotype, aprotype^; type, black letter, font, fount; pi, pie; capitals &c (letters) 561; brevier^, bourgeois, pica boldface &c, capitals, caps., catchword; composing-frame, composing room, composing rule, composing stand, composing stick; italics, justification, linotype, live matter, logotype; lower case, upper case; make-up, matrix, matter, monotype^; [point system], 4-1/2 ...
— Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases: Body • Roget
... of any Description; illustrated from the Scriptures, the Fathers of the Church, and the soundest Controversial Divines.' To this work the bookseller positively demurred. 'Well meant,' he said, 'and learned, doubtless; but the time had gone by. Printed on small-pica it would run to eight hundred pages, and could never pay. Begged therefore to be excused. Loved and honoured the true church from his soul, and, had it been a sermon on the martyrdom, or any twelve-penny touch—why, I would venture something for the ...
— Waverley, Or 'Tis Sixty Years Hence, Complete • Sir Walter Scott |
