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Pia mater
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The delicate and highly vascular membrane immediately investing the brain and spinal cord.
Pian
n.
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The yaws. See Yaws.
Pianet
n.
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The magpie.
Pianet
n.
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The lesser woodpecker.
Pianette
n.
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A small piano; a pianino.
Pianino
n.
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A pianette, or small piano.
Pianissimo
a.
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Very soft; -- a direction to execute a passage as softly as possible. (Abbrev. pp.)
Pianist
n.
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A performer, esp. a skilled performer, on the piano.
Piano
a. & adv.
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Soft; -- a direction to the performer to execute a certain passage softly, and with diminished volume of tone. (Abbrev. p.)
Piano
a.
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Alt. of Pianoforte
Pianoforte
a.
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A well-known musical instrument somewhat resembling the harpsichord, and consisting of a series of wires of graduated length, thickness, and tension, struck by hammers moved by keys.
Pianograph
n.
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A form of melodiograph applied to a piano.
Piapec
n.
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A West African pie (Ptilostomus Senegalensis).
Piarist
n.
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One of a religious order who are the regular clerks of the Scuole Pie (religious schools), an institute of secondary education, founded at Rome in the last years of the 16th century.
Piassava
n.
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A fibrous product of two Brazilian palm trees (Attalea funifera and Leopoldinia Piassaba), -- used in making brooms, and for other purposes. Called also piacaba and piasaba.
Piaster
n.
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A silver coin of Spain and various other countries. See Peso. The Spanish piaster (commonly called peso, or peso duro) is of about the value of the American dollar. The Italian piaster, or scudo, was worth from 80 to 100 cents. The Turkish and Egyptian piasters are now worth about four and a half cents.
Piastre
n.
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See Piaster.
Piation
n.
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The act of making atonement; expiation.
Piatti
n. pl.
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Cymbals.
Piazzas
pl.
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of Piazza
Piazza
n.
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An open square in a European town, especially an Italian town; hence (Arch.), an arcaded and roofed gallery; a portico. In the United States the word is popularly applied to a veranda.
Pibcorn
n.
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A wind instrument or pipe, with a horn at each end, -- used in Wales.
Pibroch
n.
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A Highland air, suited to the particular passion which the musician would either excite or assuage; generally applied to those airs that are played on the bagpipe before the Highlanders when they go out to battle.
Pic
n.
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A Turkish cloth measure, varying from 18 to 28 inches.
Pica
n.
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The genus that includes the magpies.
Pica
n.
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A vitiated appetite that craves what is unfit for food, as chalk, ashes, coal, etc.; chthonophagia.
Pica
n.
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A service-book. See Pie.
Pica
n.
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A size of type next larger than small pica, and smaller than English.
Picador
n.
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A horseman armed with a lance, who in a bullfight receives the first attack of the bull, and excites him by picking him without attempting to kill him.
Picamar
n.
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An oily liquid hydrocarbon extracted from the creosote of beechwood tar. It consists essentially of certain derivatives of pyrogallol.