Chapter Picket to Pitch of P by Soule's Synonymes

3. Sharp, tart, severe, cutting, pointed, pungent.

Pique, n.

1. Resentment (slight), grudge, umbrage, offence, wounded pride, stinging vexation, displeasure, irritation, spite.

2. Point, nicety, punctilio.

Pique, v. a.

1. Stimulate, incite, urge, instigate, spur, goad, set on, stir up.

2. Offend, displease, affront, provoke, incense, irritate, chafe, nettle, vex, fret, sting, wound, give offence to, give umbrage to, pain.

Pique one’s self. Plume one’s self, take pride, pride one’s self, value one’s self.

Piquet, n. (Mil.) Picket.

Piracy, n.

1. Robbery on the high seas, sea robbery.

2. Literary theft.

Pirate, n. Corsair, buccaneer, picaroon, freebooter, sea-robber, sea-rover.

Piratic, Piratical, a. Robbing, predatory.

Pirn, n.

1. Bobbin, spool, reel, quill.

2. Fishing-reel.

Piscator, n. Fisherman, angler.

Piscatory, a. Angling, fishing.

Pisciculture, n. Fish-culture.

Pish, interj. Pshaw.

Pismire, n. Ant, emmet.

Pisolite, n. Calcareous tufa, pea-grit, pea-stone.

Pissasphalt, Pissasphaltum, n. [Written also Pisasphalt and Pisophalt.] Earth-pitch.