%pik%

n. [ Cf. Atter. ] (Zoöl.) The stingfish, or lesser weever (Tranchinus vipera). [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) The bichir. See Crossopterygii. [ 1913 Webster ]

or . (Zool.) See under Gar. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gentian + Gr. &unr_; bitter. ] (Chem.) A bitter, yellow, crystalline substance, regarded as a glucoside, and obtained from the gentian. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Mil.) A short pike, sometimes carried by officers of infantry, sometimes used in boarding ships; a spontoon. Tatler. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A bar or lever, generally of wood, used in a windlass or capstan, for heaving anchor, and, in modified forms, for various purposes. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The garfish. [ Prov. Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A Moorish pike. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) Any one of several species of tailless rodents of the genus Ochotona (formerly Lagomys), resembling small rabbits, but with short ears alnd legs. They inhabit the high mountains of Asia and America. Called also calling hare, and crying hare and rock rabbit. See Chief hare. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

n. [ F. pique; perhaps of Celtic origin; cf. W. pig a prick, a point, beak, Arm. pik pick. But cf. also L. picus woodpecker (see Pie magpie), and E. spike. Cf. Pick, n. & v., Peak, Pique. ] 1. (Mil.) A foot soldier's weapon, consisting of a long wooden shaft or staff, with a pointed steel head. It is now superseded by the bayonet. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A pointed head or spike; esp., one in the center of a shield or target. Beau. & Fl. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A hayfork. [ Obs. or Prov. Eng. ] Tusser. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A pick. [ Prov. Eng. ] Wright. Raymond. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. A pointed or peaked hill. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

6. A large haycock. [ Prov. Eng. ] Halliwell. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. A turnpike; a toll bar. Dickens. [ 1913 Webster ]

8. (Zool.) sing. & pl. A large fresh-water fish (Esox lucius), found in Europe and America, highly valued as a food fish; -- called also pickerel, gedd, luce, and jack. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Blue pike, grass pike, green pike, wall-eyed pike, and yellow pike, are names, not of true pike, but of the wall-eye. See Wall-eye. [ 1913 Webster ]

Gar pike. See under Gar. --
Pike perch (Zool.), any fresh-water fish of the genus Stizostedion (formerly Lucioperca). See Wall-eye, and Sauger. --
Pike pole, a long pole with a pike in one end, used in directing floating logs. --
Pike whale (Zool.), a finback whale of the North Atlantic (Balænoptera rostrata), having an elongated snout; -- called also piked whale. --
Sand pike (Zool.), the lizard fish. --
Sea pike (Zool.), the garfish (a). [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Furnished with a pike; ending in a point; peaked; pointed. “With their piked targets bearing them down.” Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Pike point (fr. F. pique) + F. devant before. ] A pointed beard. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. A light, thin cake or muffin. [ Prov. Eng. ] Wright. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Pikeman 1. A soldier armed with a pike. Knolles. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A miner who works with a pick. Beaconsfield. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A keeper of a turnpike gate. T. Hughes. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The staff, or shaft, of a pike. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A staff with a spike in the lower end, to guard against slipping. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) See Pintail, 1. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Min.) See Picrolite. [ 1913 Webster ]

(Zool.) (a) The garfish. (b) A large serranoid food fish (Centropomus undecimalis) found on both coasts of America; -- called also robalo. (c) The merluce. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Akin to LG. spiker, spieker, a large nail, D. spijker, Sw. spik, Dan. spiger, Icel. spīk; all perhaps from L. spica a point, an ear of grain; but in the sense of nail more likely akin to E. spoke of a wheel. Cf. Spine. ] 1. A sort of very large nail; also, a piece of pointed iron set with points upward or outward. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Anything resembling such a nail in shape. [ 1913 Webster ]

He wears on his head the corona radiata . . . ; the spikes that shoot out represent the rays of the sun. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. An ear of corn or grain. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Bot.) A kind of flower cluster in which sessile flowers are arranged on an unbranched elongated axis. [ 1913 Webster ]

Spike grass (Bot.), either of two tall perennial American grasses (Uniola paniculata, and Uniola latifolia) having broad leaves and large flattened spikelets. --
Spike rush. (Bot.) See under Rush. --
Spike shell (Zool.), any pteropod of the genus Styliola having a slender conical shell. --
Spike team, three horses, or a horse and a yoke of oxen, harnessed together, a horse leading the oxen or the span. [ U.S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Spiked p. pr. & vb. n. Spiking. ] 1. To fasten with spikes, or long, large nails; as, to spike down planks. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To set or furnish with spikes. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To fix on a spike. [ R. ] Young. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To stop the vent of (a gun or cannon) by driving a spike nail, or the like into it. [ 1913 Webster ]

[ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. G. spieke, L. spica an ear of grain. See Spikenard. ] (Bot.) Spike lavender. See Lavender. [ 1913 Webster ]

Oil of spike (Chem.), a colorless or yellowish aromatic oil extracted from the European broad-leaved lavender, or aspic (Lavendula Spica), used in artist's varnish and in veterinary medicine. It is often adulterated with oil of turpentine, which it much resembles. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) (a) The hooded merganser. (b) The marbled godwit (Limosa fedoa). [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Furnished or set with spikes, as corn; fastened with spikes; stopped with spikes. [ 1913 Webster ]

A youth, leaping over the spiked pales, . . . was caught by those spikes. Wiseman. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) See Sailfish (a) [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Bot.) A small or secondary spike; especially, one of the ultimate parts of the in florescence of grasses. See Illust. of Quaking grass. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.[ For spiked nard; cf. G. spieknarde, NL. spica nardi. See Spike an ear, and Nard. ] 1. (Bot.) An aromatic plant. In the United States it is the Aralia racemosa, often called spignet, and used as a medicine. The spikenard of the ancients is the Nardostachys Jatamansi, a native of the Himalayan region. From its blackish roots a perfume for the hair is still prepared in India. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A fragrant essential oil, as that from the Nardostachys Jatamansi. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) The pintail duck. [ Local, U.S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Like a spike; spikelike. [ 1913 Webster ]

These spiky, vivid outbursts of metallic vapors. C. A. Young. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Having a sharp point, or sharp points; furnished or armed with spikes. [ 1913 Webster ]

Or by the spiky harrow cleared away. Dyer. [ 1913 Webster ]

The spiky wheels through heaps of carnage tore. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Turn + pike. ] 1. A frame consisting of two bars crossing each other at right angles and turning on a post or pin, to hinder the passage of beasts, but admitting a person to pass between the arms; a turnstile. See Turnstile, 1. [ 1913 Webster ]

I move upon my axle like a turnpike. B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A gate or bar set across a road to stop carriages, animals, and sometimes people, till toll is paid for keeping the road in repair; a tollgate. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A turnpike road. De Foe. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A winding stairway. [ Scot. ] Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. (Mil.) A beam filled with spikes to obstruct passage; a cheval-de-frise. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Turnpike man, a man who collects tolls at a turnpike. --
Turnpike road, a road on which turnpikes, or tollgates, are established by law, in order to collect from the users tolls to defray the cost of building, repairing, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Turnpiked p. pr. & vb. n. Turnpiking. ] To form, as a road, in the manner of a turnpike road; to throw into a rounded form, as the path of a road. Knowles. [ 1913 Webster ]