n. [ Hind. paisā ] A small copper coin of the East Indies, worth less than a cent. Malcom. [ 1913 Webster ]
‖n. [ L., the pitch pine, from pix, picis, pitch. ] (Bot.) A genus of coniferous trees of the northen hemisphere, including the Norway spruce and the American black and white spruces. These trees have pendent cones, which do not readily fall to pieces, in this and other respects differing from the firs. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ See Piceous. ] (Chem.) A hydrocarbon (C&unr_;H&unr_;) extracted from the pitchy residue of coal tar and petroleum as a bluish fluorescent crystalline substance. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. [ L. piceus, fr. pix, picis, pitch. ] Of or pertaining to pitch; resembling pitch in color or quality; pitchy. [ 1913 Webster ]