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Pick [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. A sharp pointed tool for digging or removing in small quantities.

2. What the miners call chert and whern--is so hard that the picks will not touch it.

3. Choice; right of selection. You may have your pick

4. Among printers, foul matter which collects on printing types from the balls, bad ink, or from the paper impressed.

Pick [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. To eat slowly or by morsels; to nibble.

2. To do any thing nicely or by attending to small things.

Pick [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. To pull off or pluck with the fingers something that grows or adheres to another thing; to separate by the hand, as fruit from trees; as, to pick apples or oranges; to pick strawberries.

2. To pull off or separate with the teeth, beak or claws; as, to pick flesh from a bone; hence,

3. To clean by the teeth, fingers or claws, or by a small instrument, by separating something that adheres; as, to pick a bone; to pick the ears.

4. To take up; to cause or seek industriously; as, to pick a quarrel.

5. To separate or pull asunder; to pull into small parcels by the fingers; to separate locks for loosening and cleaning; as, to pick wool.

6. To pierce; to strike with a pointed instrument; as, to pick an apple with a pin.

7. To strike with the bill or beak; to puncture. In this sense, we generally use peck.

8. To steal by taking out with the fingers or hands; as, to pick the pocket.

9. To open by a pointed instrument; as, to pick a lock.

10. To select; to cull; to separate particular things from others; as, to pick the best men from a company. In this sense, the word is often followed by out.

11. To pick off, to separate by the fingers or by a small pointed instrument.

12. PICK out, to select; to separate individuals from numbers.

13. To pick up, to take up with the fingers or beak; also, to take particular things here and there; to gather; to glean.

14. To pick a hole in one's coat, to find fault.

Pick [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. A sharp-pointed tool for picking; -- often used in composition; as, a toothpick; a picklock.

2. 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.

3. A pike or spike; the sharp point fixed in the center of a buckler.

4. Choice; right of selection; as, to have one's pick.

5. That which would be picked or chosen first; the best; as, the pick of the flock.

6. 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.

7. That which is picked in, as with a pointed pencil, to correct an unevenness in a picture.

8. 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.

Pick [Verb] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To throw; to pitch.

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.

3. To separate or open by means of a sharp point or points; as, to pick matted wool, cotton, oakum, etc.

4. To open (a lock) as by a wire.

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.

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.

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.

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.

9. To trim.

Pick [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To eat slowly, sparingly, or by morsels; to nibble.

2. To do anything nicely or carefully, or by attending to small things; to select something with care.

3. To steal; to pilfer.

Pick-fault [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

One who seeks out faults.

Pickaback [Adverb] Webster's Dictionary 1913

On the back or shoulders; as, to ride pickback.

Pickaninnies [Plural] Webster's Dictionary 1913

of Pickaninny

Pickaninny [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A small child; especially, a negro or mulatto infant.

Pickapack [Adverb] Webster's Dictionary 1828

In manner of a pack. [Vulgar.]

Pickapack [Adverb] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Pickaback.

Pickardil [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

A high collar or a kind of ruff.

Pickax [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

An ax with a sharp point at tone end and a broad blade at the other.

Pickax [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Alt. of Pickaxe

Pickaxe [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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 [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

On the back.

Pickback [Adverb] Webster's Dictionary 1913

On the back.

Picke [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A small piece of land inclosed with a hedge; a close.

Picked [Participle passive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. Plucked off by the fingers, teeth or claws; cleaned by picking; opened by an instrument; selected.

2. PICK'ED

Picked [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. Pointed; sharp.

2. Having a pike or spine on the back; -- said of certain fishes.

3. Carefully selected; chosen; as, picked men.

4. Fine; spruce; smart; precise; dianty.

Picked [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Pickedness [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. State of being pointed at the end; sharpness.

2. Foppery; spruceness.

Pickedness [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. The state of being sharpened; pointedness.

2. Fineness; spruceness; smartness.

Pickeer [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. To pillage; to pirate.

2. To skirmish, as soldiers on the outposts of an army, or in pillaging parties.

Pickeer [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

To make a raid for booty; to maraud; also, to skirmish in advance of an army. See Picaroon.

Pickeered [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

of Pickeer

Pickeerer [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

One who pickeers.

Pickeering [Present participle and verbal noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Picker [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. One that picks or culls.

2. A pickax or instrument for picking or separating.

3. One that excites a quarrel between himself and another.

Picker [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. 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.

2. A machine for picking fibrous materials to pieces so as to loosen and separate the fiber.

3. The piece in a loom which strikes the end of the shuttle, and impels it through the warp.

4. A priming wire for cleaning the vent.

Pickerel [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

A small pike, a fish of the genus Esox.

Pickerel [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. A young or small pike.

2. Any one of several species of freshwater fishes of the genus Esox, esp. the smaller species.

3. The glasseye, or wall-eyed pike. See Wall-eye.

Pickerel-weed [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

A plant supposed to breed pickerels.

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Genesis 31:45

And Jacob took a stone, and set it up for a pillar.

So Jacob picked out a stone and set it up as a pillar,

Leviticus 11:25

And whosoever beareth ought of the carcase of them shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the even.

and whoever picks up one of their carcasses must wash his clothes, and he will be unclean until evening.

Leviticus 11:28

And he that beareth the carcase of them shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the even: they are unclean unto you.

and anyone who picks up a carcass must wash his clothes, and he will be unclean until evening. They are unclean for you.

Leviticus 11:40

And he that eateth of the carcase of it shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the even: he also that beareth the carcase of it shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the even.

Whoever eats from the carcass must wash his clothes and will be unclean until evening, and anyone who picks up the carcass must wash his clothes and will be unclean until evening.

Judges 19:29

And when he was come into his house, he took a knife, and laid hold on his concubine, and divided her, together with her bones, into twelve pieces, and sent her into all the coasts of Israel.

When he reached his house, he picked up a knife, took hold of his concubine, cut her limb by limb into twelve pieces, and sent her throughout the territory of Israel.

Ruth 2:18

And she took it up, and went into the city: and her mother in law saw what she had gleaned: and she brought forth, and gave to her that she had reserved after she was sufficed.

She picked up the grain and went into the town, where her mother-in-law saw what she had gleaned. And she brought out what she had saved from her meal and gave it to Naomi.

1 Samuel 9:24

And the cook took up the shoulder, and that which was upon it, and set it before Saul. And Samuel said, Behold that which is left! set it before thee, and eat: for unto this time hath it been kept for thee since I said, I have invited the people. So Saul did eat with Samuel that day.

So the cook picked up the leg and what was attached to it and set it before Saul. Then Samuel said, “Here is what was kept back. It was set apart for you. Eat, for it has been kept for you for this occasion, from the time I said, ‘I have invited the people.’” So Saul dined with Samuel that day.

1 Samuel 16:23

And it came to pass, when the evil spirit from God was upon Saul, that David took an harp, and played with his hand: so Saul was refreshed, and was well, and the evil spirit departed from him.

And whenever the spirit from God came upon Saul, David would pick up his harp and play, and Saul would become well, and the spirit of distress would depart from him.

1 Samuel 20:38

And Jonathan cried after the lad, Make speed, haste, stay not. And Jonathan’s lad gathered up the arrows, and came to his master.

Then Jonathan cried out, “Hurry! Make haste! Do not delay!” So the boy picked up the arrow and returned to his master.

2 Samuel 4:4

And Jonathan, Saul’s son, had a son that was lame of his feet. He was five years old when the tidings came of Saul and Jonathan out of Jezreel, and his nurse took him up, and fled: and it came to pass, as she made haste to flee, that he fell, and became lame. And his name was Mephibosheth.

And Jonathan son of Saul had a son who was lame in his feet. He was five years old when the report about Saul and Jonathan came from Jezreel. His nurse picked him up and fled, but as she was hurrying to escape, he fell and became lame. His name was Mephibosheth.

2 Samuel 12:31

And he brought forth the people that were therein, and put them under saws, and under harrows of iron, and under axes of iron, and made them pass through the brickkiln: and thus did he unto all the cities of the children of Ammon. So David and all the people returned unto Jerusalem.

David brought out the people who were there and put them to work with saws, iron picks, and axes, and he made them work at the brick kilns. He did the same to all the Ammonite cities. Then David and all his troops returned to Jerusalem.

2 Kings 2:13

He took up also the mantle of Elijah that fell from him, and went back, and stood by the bank of Jordan;

Elisha also picked up the cloak that had fallen from Elijah, and he went back and stood on the bank of the Jordan.

2 Kings 4:20

And when he had taken him, and brought him to his mother, he sat on her knees till noon, and then died.

After the servant had picked him up and carried him to his mother, the boy sat on her lap until noon, and then he died.

2 Kings 4:36

And he called Gehazi, and said, Call this Shunammite. So he called her. And when she was come in unto him, he said, Take up thy son.

Elisha summoned Gehazi and said, “Call the Shunammite woman.” So he called her and she came. Then Elisha said, “Pick up your son.”

2 Kings 4:37

Then she went in, and fell at his feet, and bowed herself to the ground, and took up her son, and went out.

She came in, fell at his feet, and bowed to the ground. Then she picked up her son and went out.

2 Kings 9:25

Then said Jehu to Bidkar his captain, Take up, and cast him in the portion of the field of Naboth the Jezreelite: for remember how that, when I and thou rode together after Ahab his father, the LORD laid this burden upon him;

And Jehu said to Bidkar his officer, “Pick him up and throw him into the field of Naboth the Jezreelite. For remember that when you and I were riding together behind his father Ahab, the LORD lifted up this burden against him:

2 Kings 9:26

Surely I have seen yesterday the blood of Naboth, and the blood of his sons, saith the LORD; and I will requite thee in this plat, saith the LORD. Now therefore take and cast him into the plat of ground, according to the word of the LORD.

‘As surely as I saw the blood of Naboth and the blood of his sons yesterday, declares the LORD, so will I repay you on this plot of ground, declares the LORD.’ Now then, according to the word of the LORD, pick him up and throw him on the plot of ground.”

1 Chronicles 20:3

And he brought out the people that were in it, and cut them with saws, and with harrows of iron, and with axes. Even so dealt David with all the cities of the children of Ammon. And David and all the people returned to Jerusalem.

David brought out the people who were there and put them to work with saws, iron picks, and axes. And he did the same to all the Ammonite cities. Then David and all his troops returned to Jerusalem.

Psalms 74:6

But now they break down the carved work thereof at once with axes and hammers.

and smashing all the carvings with hatchets and picks.

Psalms 80:12

Why hast thou then broken down her hedges, so that all they which pass by the way do pluck her?

Why have You broken down its walls, so that all who pass by pick its fruit?