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PICA

Volume 3 · 43 words · 1771 Edition

in ornithology. See Corvus.

in medicine, a depravation of appetite, which makes the patient long for what is unfit for food, or incapable of nourishing, as chalk, ashes, coals, plaster, lime, &c.

PICÆ, the name of a clas of birds. See Natural History.