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296 *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.