picked

verbadjectivecommon in dialogue

//pɪkt//

Having a pick, or a particular number/type of pick (in any sense of the word)

verb

1
Also a form of picksimple past and past participle of pick

adjective

1
Having a pick, or a particular number/type of pick (in any sense of the word)
2
Chosen; selected.
For instance, in the year 1582 Akbar, who was a philosopher and a humorist as well as a model ruler, sent an invitation to the 'wise men among the Franks' at Goa to journey to Agra, there to meet in public controversy before him a picked band of Mohammedan mullas and prove the superiority of their faith.
3
Played by picking the strings
4
Having a pike or spine on the back.
the picked dogfish
5
obsoletefine; spruce; smart; precise; dainty
He is too / picked, too spruce, too affected, too odd, as it were, / too peregrinate, as I may call it.
Why then I suck my teeth and catechize / My picked man of countries:
6
obsoletepointed; sharp
[…] an useful bow a skilful bowyer wrought, / Which picked and polished both the ends he hid with horns of gold.
A very good way to take them, is to drive a stake into the ground about four foot high above the surface of the earth: Let the stake be made picked at the top, that the jay may not settle on it.

Forms

comparative: more picked
superlative: most picked

Picasso · A surname.pick · A tool used for digging; a pickaxe.Pick · A surname.

picked · Having a pick, or a particular number/type of pick (in any sense of the word)

picket · A stake driven into the ground.Picket · A surname.picking · A gathering to pick fruit.

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