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Pick
v.
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To peck at, as a bird with its beak; to strike at with anything pointed; to act upon with a pointed instrument; to pierce; to prick, as with a pin.
Pick
v.
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To separate or open by means of a sharp point or points; as, to pick matted wool, cotton, oakum, etc.
Pick
v.
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To open (a lock) as by a wire.
Pick
v.
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To pull apart or away, especially with the fingers; to pluck; to gather, as fruit from a tree, flowers from the stalk, feathers from a fowl, etc.
Pick
v.
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To remove something from with a pointed instrument, with the fingers, or with the teeth; as, to pick the teeth; to pick a bone; to pick a goose; to pick a pocket.
Pick
v.
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To choose; to select; to separate as choice or desirable; to cull; as, to pick one's company; to pick one's way; -- often with out.
Pick
v.
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To take up; esp., to gather from here and there; to collect; to bring together; as, to pick rags; -- often with up; as, to pick up a ball or stones; to pick up information.
Pick
v.
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To trim.
Pick
v. i.
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To eat slowly, sparingly, or by morsels; to nibble.
Pick
v. i.
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To do anything nicely or carefully, or by attending to small things; to select something with care.
Pick
v. i.
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To steal; to pilfer.
Pick
n.
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A sharp-pointed tool for picking; -- often used in composition; as, a toothpick; a picklock.
Pick
n.
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A heavy iron tool, curved and sometimes pointed at both ends, wielded by means of a wooden handle inserted in the middle, -- used by quarrymen, roadmakers, etc.; also, a pointed hammer used for dressing millstones.
Pick
n.
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A pike or spike; the sharp point fixed in the center of a buckler.
Pick
n.
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Choice; right of selection; as, to have one's pick.
Pick
n.
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That which would be picked or chosen first; the best; as, the pick of the flock.
Pick
n.
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A particle of ink or paper imbedded in the hollow of a letter, filling up its face, and occasioning a spot on a printed sheet.
Pick
n.
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That which is picked in, as with a pointed pencil, to correct an unevenness in a picture.
Pick
n.
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The blow which drives the shuttle, -- the rate of speed of a loom being reckoned as so many picks per minute; hence, in describing the fineness of a fabric, a weft thread; as, so many picks to an inch.
Pickaback
adv.
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On the back or shoulders; as, to ride pickback.
Pickaninnies
pl.
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of Pickaninny
Pickaninny
n.
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A small child; especially, a negro or mulatto infant.
Pickapack
adv.
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Pickaback.
Pickax
n.
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Alt. of Pickaxe
Pickaxe
n.
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A pick with a point at one end, a transverse edge or blade at the other, and a handle inserted at the middle; a hammer with a flattened end for driving wedges and a pointed end for piercing as it strikes.
Pickback
adv.
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On the back.
Picked
a.
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Pointed; sharp.
Picked
a.
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Having a pike or spine on the back; -- said of certain fishes.
Picked
a.
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Carefully selected; chosen; as, picked men.
Picked
a.
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Fine; spruce; smart; precise; dianty.