PIC 



PIG 



order of the class Aves in the Linnxan 

 system. They are characterized by a 

 Sharp-edged bill, convex above ; legs short, 

 strong ; feet formed for walking, perch- 

 ing-, or climbing ; body toughish, impure. 

 They teed on various filthy substances. 

 They build their nests in trees ; the male 

 feeds the female while she is sitting; they 

 live in pairs. There are twenty-six genera, 

 divided into sections. 



A. Feet formed for perching, contain- 

 ing : 



Buphaga Oriolus 



Certhia Paradisea 



Coracias Sitta 



Corvus Trochilus 



Glaucopis Upupa 

 Gracula 



B. Feet formed for climbing, contain- 

 ing: 



Bucco Psittacus 



Crotophaga Rhamphastos 



Cuculus Scythrops 



Galbula Trogon 



Picus Yunx 



C. Feet formed for walking, containing : 



Alcedo Momotus 



Buceros Tod us 



M crops 



PICKET, Pi COQUET, or PIQUET, in 

 fortification, a painted staff' shod witli 

 iron ; used in marking out the angies and 

 principal parts of a fortification, when the 

 engineer is tracing out a plan upon the 

 ground. There are, also, larger pickets, 

 or painted stakes, which are driven into 

 the earth, to hold together fascines or 

 faggots, in any work cast up in haste. 

 Pickets are likewise the stakes driven in- 

 to the ground near the tents of the horse- 

 men in a camp, to tie their horses to ; and 

 before the tents of the foot, where they 

 rest their imisquets or picks about them 

 in a ring. The same name is also given 

 to the stakes with notches towards the 

 top, to which are fastened the cordages of 

 tents : thus, to plant the picket is to en- 

 camp. When a horseman has committed 

 any considerable offence, he is sometimes 

 sentenced to stand upon the picket, which 

 is to have one hand and the opposite foot 

 tied together, and being drawn up from 

 the ground by the other hand, he is oblig- 

 ed to stand with one foot on the point of a 

 picket or stake, so that he can neither 

 stand nor hung without great puin, nor 

 ease himself by changing feet. 



PICQUET, a celebrated game at cards 



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p-layed between two persons, \viih only 

 thirty-two cards ; all the deuces, threes, 

 fours, fives, and sixes, being set aside. 



In playing at this game twelve cards 

 are dealt to each, and the rest laid on the 

 table : when, it one of the gamesters find 

 he has not a court card in his hand, he is 

 to declare that he has carte blanche y and 

 tell how many cards he will lay out, and 

 desire the other to discard, that he may 

 show his game, and satisfy his antagonist, 

 that the carte blanche is real ; for which 

 he reckons ten. And here the eldest hand 

 may take in three, four, or five, discarding 

 as many of his own for them, after which 

 the other may take in all the remainder, 

 if he pleases. After discarding, the el- 

 dest hand examines what suit he has most 

 cards of; and, reckoning how many points 

 he has in that suit, if the other has not so 

 many in that, or any other suit, he reck- 

 ons one for every ten in that suit, and he 

 who thus reckons most is said to win the 

 point. It is to be observed, that in thus 

 reckoning the cards, every card goes for 

 the number it bears ; as a ten for ten ; 

 only all court cards go for ten, and the 

 ace for eleven, and the usual game is one 

 hundred up. The point being over, each 

 examines what sequences he has of the 

 same suit, viz. how many tierces, or se- 

 quences of three cards ; quartes, or se- 

 quences of four cards ; quintes, or se- 

 quences of five cards, &c. he has. These 

 several sequences are distinguished in 

 dignity by the cards they begin from : 

 thus ace, king, and queen, are stiied 

 tierce major ; king, queen, and knave, 

 tierce to a king; knave, ten, nine, tieice 

 to a knave ; and the best tierce, quarte, 

 or quinte, prevails, so as to make all the 

 others in that hand good, and to destroy 

 all those in the other hand. In like man- 

 ner, a quarte in one hand sets aside a 

 tierce in the other. 



The sequences over, they proceed to 

 examine how many aces, kings, queens, 

 knaves, and tens, each holds ; reckoning 

 for every three of any sort, three ; but 

 here, too, as in sequences, he that with 

 the same number of threes or fours, has 

 one that is higher than any the other has, 

 makes his own good, and sets aside all 

 his adversary's ; but four of any sort, 

 which is called a quatorze, because four- 

 teen are reckoned for it, always set aside 

 three. 



The game in hand being thus reckon* 

 ed, the eldest proceeds to play, reckoning 5 

 one for every card he plays above nine, 

 while the other follows him in tbe suit : 

 but unless a card be won by one above 



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