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▪ I. picked, a.|ˈpɪkɪd|
[f. pick n.1 2 + -ed2.]
1. Having a pike or sharp point; acuminated, pointed, spiked; = peaked a. 1, piked a.1 1. Now arch. or dial.
c1430Hymns Virg. 61 Harpe & giterne þere may y leere, And pickid staffe & buckelere, Þere-wiþ to plawe. 1579–80North Plutarch (1676) 3 They have for the mark and stamp of their Money, the three picked Mace, which is the sign of Neptune. 1628World Encomp. by Sir F. Drake 25 Picked rockes like towers. 1660Sharrock Vegetables 70 The shield is to be made picked at both ends. 1686tr. Livy i. xliii. 25 But their Arms were changed..a Javelin, and a picked Dart like a Spit. 1709Hearne Collect. 30 Nov. (O.H.S.) II. 316 Twas triangular, but picked & sharp at top. 1763Gray Let. in W. Mason Mem. (1807) II. 184 The tall picked arches, the light clustered columns. a1845Hood Lost Heir 84 To..be poked up behind with a picked pointed pole, when the soot has ketch'd, and the chimbly's red hot. 1863Prior Pop. Names Brit. Plants (1879) 90 Gad is still used in our Western counties for a picked stick. 1863J. R. Wise New Forest Gloss. 284 ‘A picked piece’ means a field with one or more sharp angular corners. 1887S. H. A. Hervey Wedmore Chron. I. 327 (E.D.D.) Children still use ‘picked’ of a pencil with a good point to it.
b. In names of animals, etc.: Having prickles or spines, spiny; as picked dog-fish (Spinax acanthius): cf. piked a.1 1 b.
1758Descr. Thames 235 Fins, on..which are placed two Spines or Thorns, from whence he is called the Picked Dog-Fish. 1848Zoologist VI. 1975 Picked Dog, Spear Dog, Spinax acanthius. 1862Wood Reptiles, Fishes, etc. 74 The Picked Dog-fish derives its name from the powerful..weapons with which it is armed..the word Picked is a dissyllable, and must be pronounced Pick-ed.
†2. Peaked, tapering to a thin end. Obs.
1552Huloet, Pycked head, whiche is sharpe about lyke a suger lofe, argutum caput. 1615G. Sandys Trav. 63 Yellow or red slip-shooes, picked at the toe. 1665Hooke Microgr. 156 Sorrel has a..three-square seed, which is picked at both ends. 1666J. Davies Hist. Caribby Isles 25 The top of this Mountain seems to be very picked. 1683Evelyn Diary 7 Dec., Dragoons..habited after the Polish manner, with long picked caps. 1696Lond. Gaz. No. 3237/4 John Symons, Maltman.., with a picked Chin. 1762–71H. Walpole Vertue's Anecd. Paint. (1786) I. 150 The head of a man, with a hat and picked beard.
▪ II. picked, ppl. a.
(pɪkt, formerly and poet. ˈpɪkɪd)
Forms: α. 4, 6–7 pyked, 5 i-pikid, Sc. pykit, 5–7 piked. β. 5–6 pycked, 6– picked; 6–7 pickt, 7 pict, 7–8 pick'd; Sc. 6 pickit, 8 -et.
[f. pick v.1 + -ed1.]
1. Cleaned or cleared with a pick or toothpick; made bare or bald by picking; cleared of stalks, husks, or refuse parts. See pick v.1
a1400Hylton Scala Perf. (W. de W. 1494) ii. xliii, Hym nedeth to haue whyte teeth & sharpe & well pycked that sholde byte of this ghostly brede. 1508Kennedy Flyting w. Dunbar 548 Hangit, mangit, eddir-strangit, stryndie stultorum..Pickit, wickit, conuickit, lamp Lollardorum. 1637Heywood Dialogues ii. Wks. 1874 VI. 120 Thin his haire,..his crowne Picked. 1790A. Shirrefs Poems 358 Nae doubt his hoose is thacket, But..I think it unco poor and picket, And far frae bonny. 1799Hull Advertiser 2 Nov. 1/1 For sale..Riga picked flax. 1806A. Hunter Culina (ed. 3) 178 A gill of picked shrimps.
†2. Adorned, ornate, trimmed; exquisitely fashioned or apparelled, spruce, refined, exquisite, nice, finical, particular, fastidious. Obs.
The exact sense is often doubtful.
α13..E.E. Allit. P. A. 1035 Vch pane of þat place had þre ȝatez,..Þe portalez pyked of rych platez. c1400Beryn 1734 The Ches was al of yvery, the meyne fressh & newe I-pulsshid, & I-pikid, of white, asure, & blewe. 1423Jas. I Kingis Q. vii, In his faire latyne tong, So full of fruyte, and rethorikly pykit. c1570Pride & Lowl. (1841) 19 Piked he was, and handsome in his weede. 1606Holland Sueton. 148 Contemning the milder and more piked kinde of writing. 1613W. Browne Sheph. Pipe i. xviii, Gay, fresh and piked was she.
β1573–80Baret Alv. P 349 A more curious and picked style, accuratius & exquisitius dicendi genus. 1592Greene Def. Conny Catch. (1859) 33 Certayne quaint, pickt, and neate companions, attyred..alla mode de Fraunce. 1602Shakes. Ham. v. i. 151 The Age is growne so picked, that the toe of the Pesant comes so neere the heeles of our Courtier, that hee galls his Kibe. 1605Chapman All Fooles v. iv, 'Tis such a picked fellow, not a haire About his whole Bulke, but it stands in print. 1635Laud in Ussher's Lett. (1686) 377 In this nice and picked Age, you have ended all things canonically. 1636B. Jonson Discov. Wks. (Rtldg.) 759/1 When the words are proper and apt, their sound sweet, and the phrase neat and picked. [1892Daily News 7 Mar. 5/1 Words..somewhat blunter in expression than our ‘picked’ age..would care to entertain.]
3. a. Chosen out, selected, esp. for special excellence or efficiency, or for a definite purpose.
a1548Hall Chron., Hen. VI 89 b, For feare of hym, or his picked armie. 1565–73Cooper Thesaurus s.v. Corpus, Delecta Corpora,..chosen and pyked men. 1570Foxe A. & M. (ed. 2) 157/1 The best & pikedst thyngs chosen out of many churches. 1610Shakes. Temp. v. i. 247 At pickt leisure..I'le resolue you,..of euery These happend accidents. 1626G. Hakewill Comparison, etc. 27 The pict choice men of the land. 1672Marvell Reh. Transp. i. 209 As pick'd a man as could have been..found out in a whole Kingdome. 1799J. Robertson Agric. Perth 538 Picked ewes from the Ochill flocks. 1873M. Arnold Lit. & Dogma (1876) 8 Only a few picked craftsmen can manage it. 1877Raymond Statist. Mines & Mining 250 The highest assay made from picked rock yielded $1,560.41 per ton.
†b. Cricket. Chosen from outside. Obs.
1772in Waghorn Cricket Scores (1899) 88, Sept. 28 was played at Egerton, a match at wicket..Egerton had two picked men on their side. 1773Ibid. 98 The gentlemen of that place and one picked man.
†4. Contrived, provoked, designedly brought about; as, a picked quarrel. Obs.
c1470Henryson Mor. Fab. xii. (Wolf & Lamb) xix, Syne vexis him..With pykit querrellis, for to mak him fane To flit. 1679Oates Narr. Popish Plot 68 Poysoning and Assassinating by pickt Quarrels or otherwise.
5. With adv. out, up: see pick v.1 19, 21. picked-over, from which the best has already been selected.
1771J. Adams Diary 9 June, We had a picked up dinner. 1839Congress. Globe 25th Congr. 3 Sess. App. 47/2 All the emigrants went on to the new lands, where they could get first choices at $1.25 per acre, because they could not give that sum for picked-over lands in the old counties. 1886N. Sheppard Before Audience viii. 124 Audiences in England outside of the Established Church are weeded. To an American lecturer or preacher they have a picked-over appearance. The church takes the cream, the chapel the milk of society. 1889Mivart Orig. Hum. Reason 80 Groups of picked-up straws. 1896Daily Chron. 22 Aug. 3/2 Native seamen yelling and singing..coiling the picked-up cable. 1979A. Parker Country Recipe Notebk. iii. 60 Fill up with well-picked-over berries.
Hence ˈpickedly adv. (also 6 pykedly), † neatly, trimly, elegantly, daintily, fastidiously (obs.); ˈpickedness (also 7 pikednesse), † adornment, elegance, trimness, spruceness (obs.).
1540R. Hyrde tr. Vives' Instr. Chr. Wom. i. xvi. (1557) 57 b, Maids..goodly and *pykedly araied. 1565–73Cooper Thesaurus s.v. Cura, Curiose loqui, to speake curiously, or pykedly. 1593Nashe Christ's T. (1613) 154 Their houses, so pickedly and neately must be trickt vp,..as if..they were to receiue Angels.
1578Timme Caluine on Gen., Heauenly and secret wisdom,..which..can[not] neede the *pickednes and entisement of wordes. 1606Holland Sueton. 74 Negligent though hee were in all manner of pikednesse, for combing and trimming of his head so carelesse. 1630S. Lennard tr. Charron's Wisd. iii. xl. §1 (1670) 517 Neither affected uncleannesse, nor exquisite pickednesse [in dress]. 1636B. Jonson Discov., De Mollibus Wks. (1692) 706 Too much pickedness is not manly. |