Word Meanings - UNPICK - Book Publishers vocabulary database
To pick out; to undo by picking.
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- PICKABACK
A woman stooping to take a child pickaback. R,Jefferies. - PICK-FAULT
One who seeks out faults. - PICKEER
To make a raid for booty; to maraud; also, to skirmish in advance of an army. See Picaroon. Bp. Burnet. (more info) cattle, ultimately fr. L. pecus, pecoris, cattle; cf. F. picorée, Sp. - PICKPACK
Pickaback. - PICKET
A detached body of troops serving to guard an army from surprise, and to oppose reconnoitering parties of the enemy; -- called also outlying picket. 4. By extension, men appointed by a trades union, or other labor organization, to intercept - PICKPENNY
A miser; also, a sharper. Dr. H. More. - PICK-UP; PICKUP
= Brush b. 3. One that is picked up, as a meal hastily got up for the occasion, a chance acquaintance, an informal game, etc. (more info) 1. Act of picking up, as, in various games, the fielding or hitting of a ball just after it strikes - PICKSY
See PIXY - PICKTHANK
One who strives to put another under obligation; an officious person; hence, a flatterer. Used also adjectively. Smiling pickthanks, and base newsmongers. Shak. - PICKEERER
One who pickeers. - PICK
Dan. pikke, D. pikken, G. picken, F. piquer, W. pigo. Cf. Peck, v., 1. To throw; to pitch. As high as I could pick my lance. Shak. 2. To peck at, as a bird with its beak; to strike at with anything pointed; to act upon with a pointed instrument; - PICKTOOTH
A toothpick. Swift. - PICKLOCK
1. An instrument for picking locks. Shak. 2. One who picks locks; a thief. "A picklock of secrets." Jer. Taylor. - PICKING
The pulverized shells of oysters used in making walks. Simmonds. (more info) 1. The act of digging or breaking up, as with a pick. 2. The act of choosing, plucking, or gathering. 3. That which is, or may be, picked or gleaned. 4. Pilfering; also, - PICKNICK
See PICNIC - PICKLE
See PICLE - PICKMIRE
The pewit, or black-headed gull. - PICKAX; PICKAXE
A pick with a point at one end, a transverse edge or blade at the other, and a handle inserted at the middle; a hammer with a flattened end for driving wedges and a pointed end for piercing as it strikes. Shak. - PICKAPACK
Pickaback. - PICKLE-HERRING
1. A herring preserved in brine; a pickled herring. Shak. 2. A merry-andrew; a buffoon. Addison. - UNPICK
To pick out; to undo by picking. - EARPICK
An instrument for removing wax from the ear. - MISPICKEL
Arsenical iron pyrites; arsenopyrite. - RAGPICKER
One who gets a living by picking up rags and refuse things in the streets. - SPICK
A spike or nail. Spick and span, quite new; that is, as new as a spike or nail just made and a chip just split; brand- new; as, a spick and span novelty. See Span-new. Howell.