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The genus that includes the magpies.

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  1. n. The genus that includes the magpies.
  2. n. A vitiated appetite that craves what is unfit for food, as chalk, ashes, coal, etc.; chthonophagia.
  3. n. A service-book. See Pie.
  4. n. A size of type next larger than small pica, and smaller than English.
  5. n. an eating disorder, frequent in children, in which non-nutritional objects are eaten persistently
  6. n. a linear unit (1/6 inch) used in printing
  7. n:100 n. an eating disorder, frequent in children, in which non-nutritional objects are eaten persistently n. magpies