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family of Popiel great difputes arofe about his fucceflor. 
See the article Poland. 
PI'AT SO'POK, a duller of five illands among the 
Fox Illands, in the North Pacific Ocean. Lat. 53. 24. N. 
Ion. 189. 46. E. 
PIATEK', a town of Samogitia: fifteen miles north- 
north-eaft of Miedneki. 
PIATEK', Pion'tek, or Pron'tko, a town of the 
duchy of Warfaw, celebrated for its beer: eight miles 
north-north*-eaft of Lenczicz. 
PIA'TIA, a to.wn of Naples, in Calabria Ultra : eight 
miles fouth-weft of Gierace. 
PIAT'IGER, a town of Rulfia, in the government of 
Viatka: fixteen miles eaft of Kai. 
PIA'TION, f. [piativ, Lat.] Expiation; the a£t of 
atoning or purging by facrifice. 
PIATNIT'ZKA, a town of Rulfia, in the government 
of Tobollk: twenty-eight miles north-north-weft of 
Enifeilk. 
PIAT'TA, a town of Italy: two miles fouth of 
Bormio. 
PIAT'TI. See Patti. 
PIATZI'NA, a town of Rulfia, in the government of 
Olonetz: thirty-two miles north-weft of Kargopol. 
PIA'VE, a river of Italy, which rifes above Cadore, 
on the frontiers of the Tyrol and Carinthia, croffes the 
Feltrin and Trevifan, and runs into the Adriatic fixteen 
miles north-eaft of Venice. 
PIAVESEL'LA, a river of Italy, which joins the Sile 
at Treviggio. 
PIA'VO, a lake of Rulfia, in the government of Arch¬ 
angel. Lat. 66. 30. N. Ion. 30. 14. E. 
PIAW, a river of Mexico, which runs into the bay of 
Honduras in lat. 15. 52. N. Ion. 85. 50. W. 
PIAZI'DA, a river of Rulfia, which rifes in Lake Pia- 
zinlkoi, and runs into the Kanglkoi Sea at Verchnei Pia- 
zinlkoi, in lat. 73. 30. N. Ion. 87. 14. E. 
PIAZIN'SKOI, a lake of Rulfia, in the government 
of Tobollk: 252 miles north ofTuruchanlk. Lat. 69.40. 
N. Ion. 89, 14. E. 
PIAZ'ZA, or Pia'che, / [Italian.] A portico, or co¬ 
vered walk, fupported by pillars. The word literally 
fignifies “a broad open place," or fquare; whence it 
alfo became applied to the walks or porticos around them. 
—We walk by the obelilk, and meditate in piazzas, that 
they that meet us may talk of us. Bp. Taylor’s Serm. 
1651.—Some gallery or tarrafs had its proipeft north 
towards the garden, under which a piazza was, where 
attendants might walk. Sir T. Herbert's Travels. 
PIAZ'ZA, a town of Naples, in Principato Citra : four¬ 
teen miles eaft-north-eaft of Salerno. 
PIAZ'ZA, a town of Sicily in the Valley of Noto, 
fituated almoft in the centre of the illand, and containing 
18,000 inhabitants: twenty-five miles north of Alicata, 
and thirty-five welt-fouth-weft of Catania. Lat. 27. 23. 
N. Ion. 14, 22. E. 
PIAZ'ZI, a learned aftronomer of Palermo, who difco- 
vered, on the ill of January, 1801, the firft of the new pla¬ 
nets, and which was for fome time called by his name, as 
indeed it ought to have continued to be ; but afterwards 
Ceres Fernandina, and now fimply Ceres. Foran account 
of this, and the reft of the new planets, or ajteroids, fee 
the article Planet. 
PIAZZO'LA, a town of the ifland of Corfica: three 
miles eaft-louth-eaft of La Porta. 
PIB'ERSTAIN, a town of Auftria: ten miles weft of 
Freyftatt. 
PIBIG'GA, a town of Hindooftan, in Bahar: thirty- 
five miles fouth-weft of Patna. 
PI'BRAC, a town of France, in the department of the 
Upper Garonne : nine miles weft of Touloufe. 
PI'BRACH or Pibroch, f. [piob, Gael, pib, Cornifii, 
a pipe.] A kind of martial mufic among the highlanders 
of Scotland.—The pibrach, the march or battle-tune of 
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the highland clans, is fitted for the bagpipe only. Tytler’s 
DijJert. on Scott. MuJ’. —The pibroch is a fpecies of tune 
peculiar, I think, to the Highlands and Weltern Ifles of 
Scotland. It is performed on a bagpipe, and differs 
totally from all other mufic. Its rythm is fo irregular, 
and its notes, efpecially in the quick movement, fo mixed 
and huddled together, that a ftranger finds it almoft 
impoflible to reconcile his ear to it, fo as to perceive its 
modulation. Some of thefe pibrochs, being intended to 
reprefent a battle, begin with a grave motion refembling 
a march, then gradually quicken into the onfet; runoff 
with noify confufion and turbulent rapidity, to imitate 
the conflict and purfuit; then fwell into a few flouriffies 
of triumphant joy ; and perhaps clofe with the wild and 
flow wailings of a funeral proceffion. Beattie's EfJ'ays. 
PIC or PIKE, / A long meafure in Turkey, which at 
Aleppo is equal to 26| Englifh inches. At Conftanti- 
nople it is of two forts: the longed, called halebi or ar- 
chim, with which filks and woollens are meafured, is 27^9 
Englifh inches in length ; the other, called endajje, with 
which cotton goods and carpets are meafured, is 3 per 
100 fliorter. In the general courfe of European trade the 
pike is reckoned at three-fourths of an Englifh yard ; but 
in different places it is of different lengths. In the ifle 
of Cyprus the pic, or ell, meafures Englifh inches. 
At Damafcus it is 22JA Englifh inches. The Morocco 
pic, or pic Morifco, is 26-f Englifh inches; fo that 108 
pics = 79 Englifh yards. The long pic of Algiers is 
24^ Englifh inches, and the fhort pic i 8 - 4 inches, 
Tiie pic of Candiais 25'i Englifh inches ; that of Corfu, 
22'6 ; that of Jerufalem, 27 ; that of Negropont, 23^4; that 
of Oran, 27 ; that of Rhodes, 29-7 ; the long pic of Scio, 
27, and the fhort, 26 ; that of Sidon, 23'8 ; that of Smyr¬ 
na, 27; that of Tripoli, 27; the woollen pic of Tunis, 
26 - 5 , the filk ditto, 24-8 ; and the linen ditto, i8‘6 Eng¬ 
lifh inches. 
PIC de l’ETOI'LE, a fmall ifland in the South Paci¬ 
fic Ocean, fo named by Monf. Bougainville in 1768, from 
its fliape like a fugar-loaf. It was feen by Quiros in 
1606, and by him called Nueftra Senhora de la Luz. This 
is one of the group called by Quiros, Terra Auftral del 
Efpiritu Satito ; by Bougainville, The Archipelago of the 
Great Cyclades ; and by Cooke, New Hebrides. Lat. 14. 
29. S. Ion. 168. 9. E. 
PIC LAMANON', a mountain on the weft coaft of the 
ifland of Saghalien, fo called by Peroufe. Lat. 48. 40. N. 
PIC de LU'CO, a town of the duchy of Spoleto : fix¬ 
teen miles fouth-fouth-eafl of Spoleto, and fourteen eaft 
of Narni. 
PIC MARTINIE'RE, a mountain on the weft coaft 
of the ifland of Saghalien, fo called by Peroufe, from a 
French botanift of that name who accompanied him on 
his voyage, on account of the great number of curious 
plants found there. 
PI'CA or Pi'e, /. in ecelefiaftical antiquity, was a term 
formerly ufed in the fame fenfe with Ordinal, for a table 
or direftory, pointing out the order in which the devo¬ 
tional fervices appointed for different occafions were to 
be performed. Accordingly fome derive it from n», a 
contraction of a table; and others from litera 
picata, a great black letter at the beginning of fome new 
order in the prayer. In much the fame fenfe the term was 
ufed by officers of civil courts, who called the calendars, 
or alphabetical catalogues, directing to the names and 
things contained in the rolls and records of their courts, 
Pyes. Hence, 
PI'CA,/. among printers, a particular fize of type; 
probably fo called from having been firft ufed among us 
in printing the Pie, or old liturgy.—It is fuppofed, that, 
when printing came in ufe, thole letters which were of a 
moderate fize, i. e. about the bignefs of thofe in thefe 
comments and tables [of the pie, Lat. pica,] were called 
pica letters. Wheatley on the Comm. Prayer. 
PI'CA, in medicine, a depravation of appetite. See 
Pathology, 
