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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Pica \Pi"ca\, noun [L. pica a pie, magpie; in sense 3 prob. named from some resemblance to the colors of the magpie. Cf. {Pie} magpie.]
1. (Zo["o]l.) The genus that includes the magpies.
2. (Med.) A vitiated appetite that craves what is unfit for food, as chalk, ashes, coal, etc.; chthonophagia.
3. (R. C. Ch.) A service-book. See {Pie}. [Obs.]
4. (Print.) A size of type next larger than small pica, and smaller than English.
Note: This line is printed in pica
Note: Pica is twice the size of nonpareil, and is used as a standard of measurement in casting leads, cutting rules, etc., and also as a standard by which to designate several larger kinds of type, as double pica, two-line pica, four-line pica, and the like.
{Small pica} (Print.), a size of type next larger than long primer, and smaller than pica.
Note: This line is printed in small pica
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
pica
noun
1: a linear unit (1/6 inch) used in printing [syn: {em}, {pica em}]
2: magpies [syn: {genus Pica}]
3: eating earth or clay or chalk; occurs in some primitive tribes or sometimes in cases of nutritional deficiency [syn: {geophagy}, {geophagia}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
57 Moby Thesaurus words for "pica": analgesia, anesthesia, anxiety equivalent, ascender, back, bastard type, beard, belly, bevel, black letter, body, cap, capital, case, counter, depraved appetite, descender, em, en, face, fat-faced type, feet, font, groove, italic, letter, ligature, logotype, lower case, majuscule, minuscule, neurasthenia, nick, paresthesia, parorexia, pi, point, print, roman, sans serif, script, shank, shoulder, small cap, small capital, speech abnormality, stamp, stem, type, type body, type class, type lice, typecase, typeface, typefounders, typefoundry, upper case
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