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or fuits at cards, anfwering to the Englifli fpades. Thus 
we have made a fpade (or (hovel) of what the French de- 
iigned for the piieon of a fpear. Etymological Gleaner. 
To PIQUE, v.a. [piquer, Fr.] To touch with envy or 
virulency; to put into fret; to kindle to emulation : 
Piqued by Protogenes’s fame, 
From Co to Rhodes Apelles came 
To fee a rival and a friend, 
Prepar’d to cenfure or commend. Prior. 
To offend ; to irritate.—The lady was piqued by her in¬ 
difference, and began to mention going away. Female 
Quixote. 
"Why pique all mortals that affeff a name ? 
A fool to pleafure, yet a (lave to fame ! Pope. 
[With the reciprocal pronoun.] To value; to fix repu¬ 
tation as on a point; [fepiquer, Fr.] — Men apply them- 
felves to two or three foreign, dead, or which are called 
the learned, languages ; and pique tliemj'elves upon their 
(kill in them. Locke on Education. 
To PIQUE, v. n. To caufe irritation.— This is a little 
rofegay of conceits, a very lump of fait: every verfe 
hath fomething in it that piques. Tatler , N° 163. 
PIQUE, or Pioue Montvallier, the higheft moun¬ 
tain among the Pyrenees. 
To PIQUEE'R, v. a. See Pickeer. 
PIQUEE'RER, f. A robber: a plunderer. Rather 
piclieerer. —When the guardian profeffed to engage in 
faflion, the word was given, that the guardian would 
foon be feconded by fome other piqueerers from the fame 
camp. Swift. 
PIQUE'RIA, f. [commemorates Andrew Piquerio, a 
Spanifh phyfician and philofopher, whofe works have of¬ 
ten been republifhed at Venice and Amfterdam, and whofe 
merits are highly celebrated by Cavanilles, the author of 
the name.] In botany, a genus of the clafs fyngenefia, 
order polygamia-equalis, natural order compofitae difcoi- 
deae, Linn, (corymbiferae, Jujf.) Generic charafters— 
Common calyx fimple, prifmatic, of four or five conver¬ 
ging, concave, keeled, equal fcales. Corolla compound, 
difcoid : florets few, all fertile, uniform, crowded; tube 
veryftiort; limb in five fpreading fegments. Stamina: 
filaments five, very (hort; antherse united into a cylin¬ 
der. Piftillum: germen turbinate, with five angles; ftyle 
thread-fhaped ; ftigmas divaricated, tumid. Seeds foli- 
tary, minute, turbinate, with five angles, abrupt at the 
fummit; crown or down none; receptacle naked.— Ef- 
Jential Charafter. Receptacle naked; calyx with four or 
five equal leaves, and as many florets, feeds five-fided ; 
down none. There are but two fpecies. 
1. Piqueria trinervis, or three-ribbed piqueria : leaves 
ovato-lanceolate, ferrated, three-ribbed; panicle fmooth. 
Native of Mexico. The feeds w'ere brought from Spain 
to England in 1798, by the marchionefs of Bute. The 
plant is biennial, flowering in the greenhoufein July and 
Auguft. The Hems are herbaceous, four feet high, 
round, leafy, with oppofite branches, panicled, and many- 
flowered. Leaves oppofite, on (hort ftalks, fmooth, like 
every other part of the plant. Flowers very fmall and 
numerous, white, on capillary, panieled, terminal ftalks. 
a. Piqueria pubefcens, or rough piqueria : leaves dila¬ 
ted, three-lobed, cut; panicle corymbofe, downy. Na¬ 
tive of Peru. A fpecimen of this, without any name or 
mark, was found in the herbarium of the younger Lin¬ 
naeus, amongft a number of Peruvian plants. Its Item 
feems rather (hrubby, with oppofite, round, leafy branches, 
clothed with fine, (hort, denfe, rufty, rigid down. Leaves 
(an-(haped, acute, nearly fmooth, varioufly cut, and more 
or lefs regularly three-lobed, an inch or more in length, 
on rough ftalks about half as long. In other refpedfs 
this plant anfwers to the generic character given of the 
former by Cavanilles. This genus ranges next to Ethu- 
lia ; fee that article. 
P I Q 
PIQUET', /. [French.] A game at cards.—Inftead of 
entertaining themfelves at ombre or piquet, they would 
wreftle and pitch the bar. Spe&ator .* 
She commonly went up at ten, 
Unlefs piquet was in the way. Prior. 
Piquet is played between two perfons, with only thir¬ 
ty-two cards; ail the deuces, threes, fours, fives, and 
fixes, being fet afide. 
In reckoning at this game, 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 ufual game is one 
hundred. In playing, the ace wins the king, the king 
the queen, and fo on. Twelve cards are dealt round, 
ufually by two and two; which done, the remainder are 
laid in the middle: if one of the gamefters finds he has 
not a court-card in his hand, he is to declare he has carte- 
blanche, and tell how many cards he will lay out, and de¬ 
fire the other to difcard, that he may (how his game, and 
fatisfy his antagonift that the carte-blanche is real ; for 
which he reckons ten. 
Each perlon difcards, i. e. lays afide a certain number 
of his cards, and takes in a like number from the ftock. 
The firft of the eight cards may take three, four, or five; 
the dealer all the remainder, if he pleafes. 
After difcarding, the eldeft hand examines what fuit 
he has molt cards of; and, reckoning how many points 
he has in that fuit, if the other have not fo many in that 
or any other fuit, he tells one for every ten of that fuit. 
He who thus reckons moft is faid to win the point. 
The point being over, each examines what Jequenceshe 
lias of the fame fuit; viz. how many tierces, or fe- 
quencesof threes, quartes or fours, quintes or fives, fix- 
iemes or fixes, See. For a tierce they reckon 3 points, 
for a quarte 4, for a quinte 15, for a fixieme 16, Sec. and 
the feveral fequences are diitinguiflied in dignity by the 
cards they begin from ; thus ace, king, and queen, are 
called tierce major; king, queen, and knave, tierce to a 
king; knave, ten and nine, tierce to a knave, Sec. and the 
belt tierce, quarte, or quinte, i. e. that which takes its 
defeent from the beft card, prevails, fo as to make all the 
others in that hand good, and deftroy all thofe in the 
other hand. In like manner, a quarte in one hand fets 
afide a tierce in the other. 
The fequences over, they proceed to examine how 
many aces, kings, queens, knaves, and tens, each 
holds; reckoning for every three of any fort, three: 
but here too, as in fequences, he that with the fame 
number of threes has one that is higher than any the 
other has, e. gr. three aces, has all his others made good 
hereby, and his adverfary’s all fet^fide. But four of 
any fort, which is called a quatorze, always fets afide 
three. 
All the game in hand being thus reckoned, the eldeft 
proceeds to play, reckoning one for every card he plays 
above a nine, and the other follows him in the fuit; and 
the higheft card of the fuit wins the trick. Note, unlefs 
a trick be won with a card above a nine (except the laft 
trick), nothing is reckoned for it, though the trick 
ferves afterwards towards winning the cards ; and that 
he who plays laft does not reckon for his cards unlefs he 
wins the trick. 
The cards being played out, he that has moft tricks 
reckons ten for winning the cards. If they have tricks 
alike, neither reckons any thing. The deal being 
finifhed, and each having marked up his game, they pro¬ 
ceed to deal again as before, cutting afrelh each time for 
the deal. 
If both parties be within a few points of being up, the 
carte-blanche is the firft thing that reckons; then the 
point, then the fequences, then the quatorzes or threes, 
then the tenth cards. 
He that can reckon 30 in hand, by carte-blanche, 
points, quintes, Sec. without playing, before the other 
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