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Definition of pick

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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..

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Pickle-herring :: Pickle-herring (n.) A herring preserved in brine; a pickled herring.

Bede :: Bede (n.) A kind of pickax.

Auriscalp :: Auriscalp (n.) An earpick.

Pickedness :: Pickedness (n.) The state of being sharpened; pointedness.

Piqueerer :: Piqueerer (n.) See Pickeerer.

Pick :: 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..

Picket :: Picket (v. t.) To guard, as a camp or road, by an outlying picket..

Bill :: Bill (n.) A pickax, or mattock..

Pickeerer :: Pickeerer (n.) One who pickeers.

Plume :: Plume (v. t.) To pick and adjust the plumes or feathers of; to dress or prink.

Pike :: Pike (n. & v.) A pick.

Guards :: Guards (n. pl.) A body of picked troops; as, The Household Guards..

Pick :: Pick (v. i.) To do anything nicely or carefully, or by attending to small things; to select something with care..

Picket :: 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..

Flang :: Flang (n.) A miner's two-pointed pick.

Samphire :: Samphire (n.) A fleshy, suffrutescent, umbelliferous European plant (Crithmum maritimum). It grows among rocks and on cliffs along the seacoast, and is used for pickles..

Pike :: Pike (sing. & pl.) A large fresh-water fish (Esox lucius), found in Europe and America, highly valued as a food fish; -- called also pickerel, gedd, luce, and jack..

Pickle :: Pickle (v. t.) Vinegar, plain or spiced, used for preserving vegetables, fish, eggs, oysters, etc..

Compunction :: Compunction (n.) A picking of heart; poignant grief proceeding from a sense of guilt or consciousness of causing pain; the sting of conscience.

Jack :: Jack (n.) A young pike; a pickerel.