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Pick \Pick\ (p[i^]k), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Picked} (p[i^]kt); p.
pr. & vb. n. {Picking}.] [OE. picken, pikken, to prick, peck;
akin to Icel. pikka, Sw. picka, Dan. pikke, D. pikken, G.
picken, F. piquer, W. pigo. Cf. {Peck}, v., {Pike}, {Pitch}
to throw.]
1. To throw; to pitch. [Obs.]
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As high as I could pick my lance. --Shak.
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2. 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.
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3. To separate or open by means of a sharp point or points;
as, to pick matted wool, cotton, oakum, etc.
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4. To open (a lock) as by a wire.
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5. 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.
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6. 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.
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Did you pick Master Slender's purse? --Shak.
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He picks clean teeth, and, busy as he seems
With an old tavern quill, is hungry yet. --Cowper.
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7. 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. "One man picked out of ten thousand."
--Shak.
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8. 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.
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9. To trim. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
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{To pick at}, to tease or vex by pertinacious annoyance.

{To pick a bone with}. See under {Bone}.

{To pick a thank}, to curry favor. [Obs.] --Robynson (More's
Utopia).

{To pick off}.
(a) To pluck; to remove by picking.
(b) To shoot or bring down, one by one; as, sharpshooters
pick off the enemy.

{To pick out}.
(a) To mark out; to variegate; as, to pick out any dark
stuff with lines or spots of bright colors.
(b) To select from a number or quantity.

{To pick to pieces}, to pull apart piece by piece; hence
[Colloq.], to analyze; esp., to criticize in detail.

{To pick a quarrel}, to give occasion of quarrel
intentionally.

{To pick up}.
(a) To take up, as with the fingers.
(b) To get by repeated efforts; to gather here and there;
as, to pick up a livelihood; to pick up news.
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Pick \Pick\, v. i.
1. To eat slowly, sparingly, or by morsels; to nibble.
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Why stand'st thou picking? Is thy palate sore?
--Dryden.
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2. To do anything nicely or carefully, or by attending to
small things; to select something with care.
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3. To steal; to pilfer. "To keep my hands from picking and
stealing." --Book of Com. Prayer.
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{To pick up}, to improve by degrees; as, he is picking up in
health or business. [Colloq. U.S.]
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Pick \Pick\, n. [F. pic a pickax, a pick. See {Pick}, and cf.
{Pike}.]
1. A sharp-pointed tool for picking; -- often used in
composition; as, a toothpick; a picklock.
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2. (Mining & Mech.) A heavy iron tool, curved and sometimes
pointed at both ends, wielded by means of a wooden handle
inserted in the middle, -- used for digging ino the ground
by quarrymen, roadmakers, etc.; also, a pointed hammer
used for dressing millstones.
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3. A pike or spike; the sharp point fixed in the center of a
buckler. [Obs.] "Take down my buckler . . . and grind the
pick on 't." --Beau. & Fl.
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4. Choice; right of selection; as, to have one's pick; in cat
breeding, the owner of a stud gets the pick of the litter.
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France and Russia have the pick of our stables.
--Ld. Lytton.
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5. Hence: That which would be picked or chosen first; the
best; as, the pick of the flock.
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6. (Print.) 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. --MacKellar.
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7. (Painting) That which is picked in, as with a pointed
pencil, to correct an unevenness in a picture.
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8. (Weaving) 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.
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{Pick dressing} (Arch.), in cut stonework, a facing made by a
pointed tool, leaving the surface in little pits or
depressions.

{Pick hammer}, a pick with one end sharp and the other blunt,
used by miners.
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