Pick (v.) To open (a lock) as by a wire.
Pick (v.) 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.) 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.) 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.) 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.) To trim.
Pick (v. i.) To eat slowly, sparingly, or by morsels; to nibble.
Pick (v. i.) To do anything nicely or carefully, or by attending to small things; to select something with care.
Pick (v. i.) To steal; to pilfer.
Pick (n.) A sharp-pointed tool for picking; -- often used in composition; as, a toothpick; a picklock.
Pick (n.) 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.) A pike or spike; the sharp point fixed in the center of a buckler.
Pick (n.) Choice; right of selection; as, to have one's pick.
Pick (n.) That which would be picked or chosen first; the best; as, the pick of the flock.
Pick (n.) 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.) That which is picked in, as with a pointed pencil, to correct an unevenness in a picture.
Pick (n.) 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.) On the back or shoulders; as, to ride pickback.
Pickaninnies (pl. ) of Pickaninny
Pickaninny (n.) A small child; especially, a negro or mulatto infant.
Pickapack (adv.) Pickaback.
Pickax (n.) Alt. of Pickaxe
Pickaxe (n.) 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.) On the back.
Picked (a.) Pointed; sharp.
Picked (a.) Having a pike or spine on the back; -- said of certain fishes.
Picked (a.) Carefully selected; chosen; as, picked men.
Picked (a.) Fine; spruce; smart; precise; dianty.
Pickedness (n.) The state of being sharpened; pointedness.
Pickedness (n.) Fineness; spruceness; smartness.
Pickeered (imp. & p. p.) of Pickeer
Pickeering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Pickeer
Pickeer (v. i.) To make a raid for booty; to maraud; also, to skirmish in advance of an army. See Picaroon.
Pickeerer (n.) One who pickeers.
Picker (n.) One who, or that which, picks, in any sense, -- as, one who uses a pick; one who gathers; a thief; a pick; a pickax; as, a cotton picker.
Picker (n.) A machine for picking fibrous materials to pieces so as to loosen and separate the fiber.
Picker (n.) The piece in a loom which strikes the end of the shuttle, and impels it through the warp.
Picker (n.) A priming wire for cleaning the vent.
Pickerel (n.) A young or small pike.
Pickerel (n.) Any one of several species of freshwater fishes of the genus Esox, esp. the smaller species.
Pickerel (n.) The glasseye, or wall-eyed pike. See Wall-eye.
Pickering (n.) The sauger of the St.Lawrence River.
Pickery (n.) Petty theft.
Picket (n.) A stake sharpened or pointed, especially one used in fortification and encampments, to mark bounds and angles; or one used for tethering horses.
Picket (n.) A pointed pale, used in marking fences.
Picket (n.) A detached body of troops serving to guard an army from surprise, and to oppose reconnoitering parties of the enemy; -- called also outlying picket.
Picket (n.) By extension, men appointed by a trades union, or other labor organization, to intercept outsiders, and prevent them from working for employers with whom the organization is at variance.
Picket (n.) A military punishment, formerly resorted to, in which the offender was forced to stand with one foot on a pointed stake.
Picket (n.) A game at cards. See Piquet.
Picketed (imp. & p. p.) of Picket
Picketing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Picket
Picket (v. t.) To fortify with pointed stakes.
Picket (v. t.) To inclose or fence with pickets or pales.
Picket (v. t.) To tether to, or as to, a picket; as, to picket a horse.
Picket (v. t.) To guard, as a camp or road, by an outlying picket.
Picket (v. t.) To torture by compelling to stand with one foot on a pointed stake.
Picketee (n.) See Picotee.
Pick-fault (n.) One who seeks out faults.
Picking (n.) The act of digging or breaking up, as with a pick.
Picking (n.) The act of choosing, plucking, or gathering.
Picking (n.) That which is, or may be, picked or gleaned.
Picking (n.) Pilfering; also, that which is pilfered.
Picking (n.) The pulverized shells of oysters used in making walks.
Picking (n.) Rough sorting of ore.
Picking (n.) Overburned bricks.
Picking (a.) Done or made as with a pointed tool; as, a picking sound.
Picking (a.) Nice; careful.
Pickle (n.) See Picle.
Pickle (v. t.) A solution of salt and water, in which fish, meat, etc., may be preserved or corned; brine.
Pickle (v. t.) Vinegar, plain or spiced, used for preserving vegetables, fish, eggs, oysters, etc.
Pickle (v. t.) Any article of food which has been preserved in brine or in vinegar.
Pickle (v. t.) A bath of dilute sulphuric or nitric acid, etc., to remove burnt sand, scale rust, etc., from the surface of castings, or other articles of metal, or to brighten them or improve their color.
Pickle (v. t.) A troublesome child; as, a little pickle.
Pickled (imp. & p. p.) of Pickle
Pickling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Pickle
Pickle (v. t.) To preserve or season in pickle; to treat with some kind of pickle; as, to pickle herrings or cucumbers.
Pickle (v. t.) To give an antique appearance to; -- said of copies or imitations of paintings by the old masters.
Pickled (a.) Preserved in a pickle.
Pickle-herring (n.) A herring preserved in brine; a pickled herring.
Pickle-herring (n.) A merry-andrew; a buffoon.
Pickler (n.) One who makes pickles.
Picklock (n.) An instrument for picking locks.
Picklock (n.) One who picks locks; a thief.
Pickmire (n.) The pewit, or black-headed gull.
Picknick (n.) See Picnic.
Pickpack (adv.) Pickaback.
Pickpennies (pl. ) of Pickpenny
Pickpenny (n.) A miser; also, a sharper.
Pickpocket (n.) One who steals purses or other articles from pockets.
Pickpurse (n.) One who steals purses, or money from purses.
Picksy (n.) See Pixy.
Pickthank (n.) One who strives to put another under obligation; an officious person; hence, a flatterer. Used also adjectively.
Picktooth (n.) A toothpick.
Picke (n.) A small piece of land inclosed with a hedge; a close.
Picnic (v.) Formerly, an entertainment at which each person contributed some dish to a common table; now, an excursion or pleasure party in which the members partake of a collation or repast (usually in the open air, and from food carried by themselves).
Picnicked (imp. & p. p.) of Picnic
Picnicking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Picnic
Picnic (v. i.) To go on a picnic, or pleasure excursion; to eat in public fashion.
Picnicker (n.) One who takes part in a picnic.
Picoid (a.) Like or pertaining to the Pici.