picked

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɪkt/

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• Rhymes: -ɪkt

Verb

picked

1. simple past and past participle of pick

Adjective

picked (comparative more picked, superlative most picked)

1. Chosen; selected.
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:

4. (obsolete) pointed; sharp
   • (Can we date this quote by George Chapman and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)

     […] an useful bow a skilful bowyer wrought, / Which picked and polished both the ends he hid with horns of gold.

   • (Can we date this quote by Mortimer and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)

     Let the stake be made picked at the top.

Derived terms

• hand-picked

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)