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- English Word Piscator Definition A fisherman; an angler.
- English Word Piscatorial Definition Alt. of Piscatory
- English Word Piscatory Definition Of or pertaining to fishes or fishing.
- English Word Pisces Definition The twelfth sign of the zodiac, marked / in almanacs.
- English Word Pisces Definition A zodiacal constellation, including the first point of Aries, which is the vernal equinoctial point; the Fish.
- English Word Pisces Definition The class of Vertebrata that includes the fishes. The principal divisions are Elasmobranchii, Ganoidei, and Teleostei.
- English Word Piscicapture Definition Capture of fishes, as by angling.
- English Word Piscicultural Definition Relating to pisciculture.
- English Word Pisciculture Definition Fish culture. See under Fish.
- English Word Pisciculturist Definition One who breeds fish.
- English Word Pisciform Definition Having the form of a fish; resembling a fish.
- English Word Piscina Definition A niche near the altar in a church, containing a small basin for rinsing altar vessels.
- English Word Piscinal Definition Belonging to a fishpond or a piscina.
- English Word Piscine Definition Of or pertaining to a fish or fishes; as, piscine remains.
- English Word Piscivorous Definition Feeding or subsisting on fish.
- English Word Pise Definition A species of wall made of stiff earth or clay rammed in between molds which are carried up as the wall rises; -- called also pise work.
- English Word Pish Definition An exclamation of contempt.
- English Word Pish Definition To express contempt.
- English Word Pishu Definition The Canada lynx.
- English Word Pisiform Definition Resembling a pea or peas in size and shape; as, a pisiform iron ore.
- English Word Pisiform Definition A small bone on the ulnar side of the carpus in man and many mammals. See Illust. of Artiodactyla.
- English Word Pismire Definition An ant, or emmet.
- English Word Pisolite Definition A variety of calcite, or calcium carbonate, consisting of aggregated globular concretions about the size of a pea; -- called also peastone, peagrit.
- English Word Pisolitic Definition Composed of, containing, or resembling, pisolite.
- English Word Pisophalt Definition Pissasphalt.
- English Word Piss Definition To discharge urine, to urinate.
- English Word Piss Definition Urine.
- English Word Pissabed Definition A name locally applied to various wild plants, as dandelion, bluet, oxeye daisy, etc.
- English Word Pissasphalt Definition Earth pitch; a soft, black bitumen of the consistence of tar, and of a strong smell. It is inflammable, and intermediate between petroleum and asphalt.
- English Word Pist Definition See Piste.