Found 2 items, similar to pica.
English → English (WordNet) Definition: pica pica n 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]
English → English (gcide) Definition: Pica Pica \Pi"ca\, n. [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. [1913 Webster] 2. (Med.) A vitiated appetite that craves what is unfit for food, as chalk, ashes, coal, etc.; chthonophagia. [1913 Webster] 3. (R. C. Ch.) A service-book. See Pie. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] 4. (Print.) A size of type next larger than small pica, and smaller than English. [1913 Webster] Note: This line is printed in pica [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] Small pica (Print.), a size of type next larger than long primer, and smaller than pica. [1913 Webster] Note: This line is printed in small pica [1913 Webster]