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Webster 1913 Edition
Picked
Pick′ed
,Adj.
1.
Pointed; sharp.
“Picked and polished.” Chapman.
Let the stake be made
picked
at the top. Mortimer.
2.
(Zool.)
Having a pike or spine on the back; – said of certain fishes.
3.
Carefully selected; chosen;
as,
. picked
men4.
Fine; spruce; smart; precise; dianty.
[Obs.]
Shak.
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.
Webster 1828 Edition
Picked
PICK'ED
,pp.
PICK'ED
Definition 2024
picked
picked
English
Verb
picked
- simple past tense and past participle of pick
Adjective
picked (comparative more picked, superlative most picked)
- (obsolete) pointed; sharp
- Chapman
- Picked and polished.
- Mortimer
- Let the stake be made picked at the top.
- Chapman
- (zoology, of fishes) Having a pike or spine on the back.
- the picked dogfish
- (obsolete) fine; spruce; smart; precise; dainty
- 1590, William Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost, V. i. 13:
- He is too / picked, too spruce, too affected, too odd, as it were, / too peregrinate, as I may call it.
- 1596, William Shakespeare, The Life and Death of King John, I. i. 193:
- Why then I suck my teeth and catechize / My picked man of countries:
- 1590, William Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost, V. i. 13: