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Pickett – Pilgrim Fathers

Pickett

GEORGE EDWARD, an American military officer; born in Richmond, Va., Jan. 25, 1825; was graduated pally of olivine and augite, with oc- 1855. In 1861 he left the United States in 1846; served in the Mexican War as netite. First found at Teschen, Silesia.

Picrite

a rock, consisting princilieutenant and was made captain in 1855. In 1861 he left the United States service and entered the Confederate the poisonous principle of Cocculus inarmy. He was commissioned Brigadier- dicus and extracted from that berry by General and was distinguished through- means of hot alcohol.

Pictou

a port of entry on the N. factories, and coal, mined in the vicinity, is exported.

Halifax. The town contains mills and and a half centuries (A. D. 296-844), the from the Forth to the Pentland Firth,

Picul

a Chinese weight of 133% pounds. It is divided into 100 catties, or 1,600 taels; also called tan.

Pietra Dura

a species of inlaid work composed of hard stones, such as water fishes, but the flavor of its flesh agate, jasper, chalcedony, carnelian, and lapislazuli, set in a slab of marble, generally black. PIGEON. See CARRIER PIGEON.

Pigeon Pea

the fruit of the leguminous shrub Cajanus indicus, a native of India, but now cultivated in tropical Africa and America. In India the pigeon pea forms a pulse of general use; called also Angola pea and Kongo pea.

PIG IRON. See IRON AND STEEL.

Pigment Cell

a small cell containing coloring matter, as in the choroid coat of the eye.

Pike's Peak

a peak of the Rocky Mountains, in Colorado, 65 miles S. of Denver, discovered by Captain Pike, U.

S. A., in 1806. It is situated in lat. 38° 50′ N., and lon. 105° 2' W., and rises to a height of 14,147 feet. On its summit is one of the highest meteorological stations in the world.

Pilaster

a square column, generally attached to a wall, as an ornamental support to an arch, etc., and seldom projecting more than one-fourth or onethird of its breadth from the wall.

Pilchard

Clupea pilchardus, an h. of Northwestern Europe. Eu It abounds also on the coast of Portugal and in the PILCOMAYO a Mediterranean. It is a thicker and smaller fish than the herring; the upper part of the body is bluish-green, belly and sides silverywhite.

Pilcomayo

a river in South America, which rises in Bolivia, on the E. declivities of the Andes, and falls into the Paraguay, near Asuncion, after forming ing the boundary between Paraguay and the Argentine Republic. Its entire length is between 1,500 and 1,600 miles.

Pilgrim Fathers

the name given to 102 Puritans, who sailed in the "Mayflower," from Plymouth, on Sept. 6, 1620, to seek in America the religious liberty denied them in England. Landing on Plymouth Rock, they, on Dec. 25, 1620, founded a colony, which became the germ of the New England States.