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   Pick , v. t. [imp. & p. p. Picked ; 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.]
   To throw; to pitch. [Obs.]
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   As high as I could pick my lance.
   Shak.
   
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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.
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   To separate or open by means of a sharp point or points; as, to pick matted wool, cotton, oakum, etc.
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   To open (a lock) as by a wire.
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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.
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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.
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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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   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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   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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   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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   Picked , a.
   Pointed; sharp. “Picked and polished.”
   Chapman.
   
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   Let the stake be made picked at the top.
   Mortimer.
   
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   (Zool.) Having a pike or spine on the back; -- said of certain fishes.
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   Carefully selected; chosen; as, picked men.
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   Fine; spruce; smart; precise; dainty. [Obs.]
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   Picked dogfish. (Zool.) See under Dogfish. -- Picked out, ornamented or relieved with lines, or the like, of a different, usually a lighter, color; as, a carriage body dark green, picked out with red.
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