How do you spell Picked
Available Definitions:
1) a. - Pointed; sharp.
2) a. - Having a pike or spine on the back; -- said of certain fishes.
3) a. - Carefully selected; chosen; as, picked men.
4) a. - Fine; spruce; smart; precise; dianty.
5) v. - To pull apart or away, especially with the fingers; to pluck; to gather, as fruit from a tree, flowers from the stalk, feathers from a fowl, etc.
6) 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.
7) v. - To choose; to select; to separate as choice or desirable; to cull; as, to pick one's company; to pick one's way; -- often with out.
8) v. - To take up; esp., to gather from here and there; to collect; to bring together; as, to pick rags; -- often with up; as, to pick up a ball or stones; to pick up information.
9) v. - To trim.
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.
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