"Pici" is a word in ENGLISH
A division of birds including the woodpeckers and
wrynecks.
of Picus
Persons curious in chronology may, if they like, work out from what they already know of the Wimsey family that the action of the book takes place in 1935; but if they do, they must not be querulously indignant because the King's Jubilee is not mentioned, or because I have arranged the weather and the moon's changes to suit my own fancy. For, however realistic the background, the novelist's only native country is Cloud-Cuckooland, where they do but jest, poison in jest: no offence in the world.
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The uppermost member or division of the capital of a column, immediately under the architrave. See Column.
Read the complete definitionThat division of the Mollusca which includes the bivalve shells, like the clams and oysters; -- so called because they …
Read the complete definitionThe division of Cephalopoda in which the arms are furnished with cup-shaped suckers, as the cuttlefishes, squids, and octopus; the …
Read the complete definitionA performance of part of a play; one of the principal divisions of a play or dramatic work in which …
Read the complete definitionA large division of Anthozoa, including those which have simple tentacles and do not form stony corals. Sometimes, in a …
Read the complete definitionThe division or defective coherence of an organ that is usually entire.
Read the complete definitionPertaining to fields, or lands, or their tenure; esp., relating to an equal or equitable division of lands; as, the …
Read the complete definitionOne in favor of an equal division of landed property.
Read the complete definitionRelating to lnnd, or to a division or distribution of land; as an agra-rlan law
Read the complete definitionAn equal or equitable division of landed property; the principles or acts of those who favor a redistribution of land.
Read the complete definitionA lateral division of a building, separated from the middle part, called the nave, by a row of columns or …
Read the complete definitionThe division of Vertebrata in which the embryo develops an allantois. It includes reptiles, birds, and mammals.
Read the complete definitionPartition, apportion-ment, division; the distribution of land un-der an inclosure act, or shares ln a public undertaking or corporation
Read the complete definitionOf or pertaining to Amhara, a division of Abyssinia; as, the Amharic language is closely allied to the Ethiopic.
Read the complete definitionThat division of the Rhizopoda which includes the amoeba and similar forms.
Read the complete definitionThe achromatic figure, formed in mitotic cell-division, consisting of two asters connected by a spindle-shaped bundle of rodlike fibers diverging …
Read the complete definitionA division of insects having aquatic larvae.
Read the complete definitionA division of Mollusca remarkable for the bilateral symmetry of the organs and the arrangement of the nerves.
Read the complete definitionThe division of Vertebrata in which no allantois is developed. It includes amphibians, fishes, and lower forms.
Read the complete definitionOne of the divisions of Articulata in which there are no jointed legs, as the annelids; -- opposed to Arthropoda.
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