Available Definitions:
1) n. - The act of digging or breaking up, as with a pick.
2) n. - The act of choosing, plucking, or gathering.
3) n. - That which is, or may be, picked or gleaned.
4) n. - Pilfering; also, that which is pilfered.
5) n. - The pulverized shells of oysters used in making walks.
6) n. - Rough sorting of ore.
7) n. - Overburned bricks.
8) a. - Done or made as with a pointed tool; as, a picking sound.
9) a. - Nice; careful.
10) v. i. - To eat slowly, sparingly, or by morsels; to nibble.
11) v. i. - To do anything nicely or carefully, or by attending to small things; to select something with care.
12) v. i. - To steal; to pilfer.
13) n. - A sharp-pointed tool for picking; -- often used in composition; as, a toothpick; a picklock.
14) n. - A heavy iron tool, curved and sometimes pointed at both ends, wielded by means of a wooden handle inserted in the middle, -- used by quarrymen, roadmakers, etc.; also, a pointed hammer used for dressing millstones.
15) n. - A pike or spike; the sharp point fixed in the center of a buckler.
16) n. - Choice; right of selection; as, to have one's pick.
17) n. - That which would be picked or chosen first; the best; as, the pick of the flock.
18) 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.
19) n. - That which is picked in, as with a pointed pencil, to correct an unevenness in a picture.
20) 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.