Pica /(?)/

Pi·ca

Pica

n.
  1. The genus that includes the magpies. (Zool.)
  2. A vitiated appetite that craves what is unfit for food, such as clay, chalk, ashes, coal, etc.; chthonophagia. (Med.)
  3. A service-book. See Pie. (R. C. Ch.) [Obs.]
  4. A size of type next larger than small pica, and smaller than English. (Print.)

Phrases & Compounds

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