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The Record Interpreter.
  • pica:—an index, pyebook; rules for saying divine service; a peck.
  • picagiwn, piccagium:—payment to the owner of the soil for breaking ground to erect booths, &c.
  • picesium:—a pickaxe.
  • picheria:—a pitcher.
  • picherius:—a fish, perhaps pilchard (clup a pilchardus), but more probably the gilt-head (chrysophrys or sparus aurata), called in old French picarel, O. E. cackerell.
  • pickoisium, picoisum:—a pick-axe.
  • pictaciare:—to mend, to patch.
  • pictaciarius:—a cobbler.
  • pictacio:—painting.
  • picture:—to paint.
  • pirtellum:—a pightell, or picle, a small piece of land, enclosed with a hedge.
  • picturare:—to paint.
  • picula:—pickle.
  • pietancia:—a pittance, an addition to the usual food in collegiate churches or convents; the pittance for two was given in one plate.
  • pietanciaria:—the place where pittance is distributed; the office of the pittancer.
  • pietantiarius:—a pittancer, an officer who distributes the pittance.
  • piga:—the forearm.
  • pightellum. See pictelium.
  • pikerellus:—a pickerel, a small pike.
  • pila:—a pile (heraldic); the reverse of a coin.
  • pilare:—to drive piles.
  • pilarius:—a pillar.
  • pilatus:—a blunt arrow, bolt, or quarel.
  • pileo:—a hatter, a capper (?).
  • pilettus:—an arrow with a knob at the head.
  • pillare:—to plunder.
  • pillaria:—plunder; devastation.
  • pilleus:—for pileus, a hat.
  • pillorium, piloria, pilorium:—a pillory.
  • pilum:—cloth.
  • pilus:—a stake.
  • pinaculum:—a pinnacle.
  • pinca:—a jug; a bodkin; a granary.
  • pincella:—a pencil.
  • pincerna:—a butler; a cup-bearer.
  • pincernaria:—a buttery; the office of butler.
  • pincernarius:—an officer of the buttery.
  • pinnare:—to notch; to cut niches.
  • pinsa:—a pestle.
  • pinsella:—a brake or braye, a kneading machine.
  • pinsis:—a grimace.
  • pipa:—the great or pipe roll of the Exchequer; a pipe of wine, two hogsheads.
  • piperarius:—a pepperer.
  • pipum:—a pipe of wine.
  • pira:—an arch of a bridge.