picked

verbo

1. 1

   Anche una forma di picksimple past and past participle of pick

aggettivo

1. 1

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

2. 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. 3

   Played by picking the strings

4. 4

   Having a pike or spine on the back.

   the picked dogfish

5. 5

   obsoletofine; 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. 6

   obsoletopointed; 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.

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