Chapter Picketee to Piece of P by Webster's Dictionary (1913 Edition)

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

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

Picric
(Pi"cric) a. (Chem.) Pertaining to, or designating, a strong organic 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.

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

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

Picromel
(Pic"ro*mel) n. [Gr. bitter + honey: cf. F. picromel.] (Old Chem.) A colorless viscous substance having a bitter-sweet taste.

It was formerly supposed to be the essential principle of the bile, but is now known to be a mixture, principally of salts of glycocholic and taurocholic acids.

Picrotoxin
(Pic`ro*tox"in) n. [Gr. bitter + toxic + -in.] (Chem.) A bitter white crystalline substance found in the cocculus indicus. It is a peculiar poisonous neurotic and intoxicant, and consists of a mixture of several neutral substances.

Picryl
(Pi"cryl) n. [Picric + - yl.] (Chem.) The hypothetical radical of picric acid, analogous to phenyl.

Pictish
(Pict"ish) a. Of or pertaining to Picts; resembling the Picts. "The Pictish peer." Byron.

Pictograph
(Pic"to*graph) n. [See Picture, and -graph.] A picture or hieroglyph representing and expressing an idea. — Pic`to*graph"ic a.

Pictorial
(Pic*to"ri*al) a. [L. pictorius, fr. pictor a painter, fr. pingere to paint. See Paint.] Of or pertaining to pictures; illustrated by pictures; forming pictures; representing with the clearness of a picture; as, a pictorial dictionary; a pictorial imagination. "Pictorial rhetoric." Ruskin. — Pic*to"ri*al*ly, adv.

Pictoric
(Pic*tor"ic Pic*tor"ic*al) a. Pictorial. [Obs.]

Picts
(Picts) n. pl.; sing. Pict [L. Picti; cf. AS. Peohtas.] (Ethnol.) A race of people of uncertain origin, who inhabited Scotland in early times.

Pictura
(||Pic*tu"ra) n. [L., a painting.] (Zoöl.) Pattern of coloration.

Picturable
(Pic"tur*a*ble) a. Capable of being pictured, or represented by a picture.

Pictural
(Pic"tur*al) a. Pictorial. [R.] Sir W. Scott.

Pictural
(Pic"tur*al), n. A picture. [Obs.] Spenser.

Picture
(Pic"ture) n. [L. pictura, fr. pingere, pictum, to paint: cf. F. peinture. See Paint.]

1. The art of painting; representation by painting. [Obs.]

Any well-expressed image . . . either in picture or sculpture.

Sir H. Wotton.