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Pica   Listen
noun
Pica  n.  
1.
(Zool.) The genus that includes the magpies.
2.
(Med.) A vitiated appetite that craves what is unfit for food, such as clay, chalk, ashes, coal, etc.; chthonophagia.
Synonyms: allotriophagy.
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






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... of Astronomy (cover, brown leather, detached, S plates, antique letterpress long primer, author's footnotes nonpareil, marginal clues brevier, captions small pica). ...
— Ulysses • James Joyce



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