picked

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɪkt/

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• Rhymes: -ɪkt

Verb

picked

1. simple past tense and past participle of pick

Adjective

picked (comparative more picked, superlative most picked)

1. (obsolete) pointed; sharp
   • Chapman

     Picked and polished.

   • Mortimer

     Let the stake be made picked at the top.

2. (zoology, of fishes) Having a pike or spine on the back.

   the picked dogfish

3. (obsolete) fine; spruce; smart; precise; dainty
   • 1590, William Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost, V. i. 13:

     He is too / picked, too spruce, too affected, too odd, as it were, / too peregrinate, as I may call it.

   • 1596, William Shakespeare, The Life and Death of King John, I. i. 193:

     Why then I suck my teeth and catechize / My picked man of countries:

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for picked in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)