Definition of pick

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Pick (v.) 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..

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Pickback :: Pickback (adv.) On the back.
Shoot :: Shoot (n.) A weft thread shot through the shed by the shuttle; a pick.
Toothpick :: Toothpick (n.) A pointed instument for clearing the teeth of substances lodged between them.
Bunter :: Bunter (n.) A woman who picks up rags in the streets; hence, a low, vulgar woman..
Compunction :: Compunction (n.) A picking of heart; poignant grief proceeding from a sense of guilt or consciousness of causing pain; the sting of conscience.
Picktooth :: Picktooth (n.) A toothpick.
Pickpack :: Pickpack (adv.) Pickaback.
Brine :: Brine (n.) Water saturated or strongly impregnated with salt; pickle; hence, any strong saline solution; also, the saline residue or strong mother liquor resulting from the evaporation of natural or artificial waters..
Papaw :: Papaw (n.) A tree (Carica Papaya) of tropical America, belonging to the order Passifloreae. It has a soft, spongy stem, eighteen or twenty feet high, crowned with a tuft of large, long-stalked, palmately lobed leaves. The milky juice of the plant is said to have the property of making meat tender. Also, its dull orange-colored, melon-shaped fruit, which is eaten both raw and cooked or pickled..
Arsenopyrite :: Arsenopyrite (n.) A mineral of a tin-white color and metallic luster, containing arsenic, sulphur, and iron; -- also called arsenical pyrites and mispickel..
Oakum :: Oakum (n.) The material obtained by untwisting and picking into loose fiber old hemp ropes; -- used for calking the seams of ships, stopping leaks, etc..
Souse :: Souse (v. t.) To steep in pickle; to pickle.
Wampee :: Wampee (n.) The pickerel weed.
Peck :: Peck (v.) To seize and pick up with the beak, or as with the beak; to bite; to eat; -- often with up..
Pick :: Pick (n.) That which would be picked or chosen first; the best; as, the pick of the flock..
Picking :: Picking (n.) Overburned bricks.
Pickling :: Pickling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Pickl.
Floccillation :: Floccillation (n.) A delirious picking of bedclothes by a sick person, as if to pick off flocks of wool; carphology; -- an alarming symptom in acute diseases..
Picket :: Picket (n.) A stake sharpened or pointed, especially one used in fortification and encampments, to mark bounds and angles; or one used for tethering horses..
Picket :: Picket (n.) A military punishment, formerly resorted to, in which the offender was forced to stand with one foot on a pointed stake..
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