'Small pica' definitions:

Definition of 'Small pica'

From: GCIDE

Pica \Pi"ca\, n. [L. pica a pie, magpie; in sense 3 prob. named from some resemblance to the colors of the magpie. Cf. Pie magpie.]
1. (Zool.) The genus that includes the magpies. [1913 Webster]
2. (Med.) A vitiated appetite that craves what is unfit for food, such as clay, chalk, ashes, coal, etc.; chthonophagia.
Syn: allotriophagy. [1913 Webster]
3. (R. C. Ch.) A service-book. See Pie. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
4. (Print.) A size of type next larger than small pica, and smaller than English. [1913 Webster]
Note: Pica is twice the size of nonpareil, and is used as a standard of measurement in casting leads, cutting rules, etc., and also as a standard by which to designate several larger kinds of type, as double pica, two-line pica, four-line pica, and the like. [1913 Webster]
Small pica (Print.), a size of type next larger than long primer, and smaller than pica. [1913 Webster]