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allotriophagy
    (ăllṓtrĭŏfȧjy̆), n. [Gr. ἀλλότριος strange + φαγεῖν to eat: cf. F. allotriophagie.] (Med.) A depraved appetite; a desire for strange or nonnutritious food, such as clay or starch.  Called also pica. AS

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Pica (?), n. [L. pica a pie, magpie; in sense 3 prob. named from some resemblance to the colors of the magpie.  Cf. Pie magpie.]
    1. (Zool.) The genus that includes the magpies.

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    2. (Med.) A vitiated appetite that craves what is unfit for food, such as clay, chalk, ashes, coal, etc.; chthonophagia.

    Syn. -- allotriophagy.

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    3. (R. C. Ch.) A service-book. See Pie. [Obs.]

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    4. (Print.) A size of type next larger than small pica, and smaller than English.

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    ☞ This line is printed in pica

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    ☞ 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.

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    Small pica (Print.), a size of type next larger than long primer, and smaller than pica.

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    ☞ This line is printed in small pica

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