picked

Having a pick, or a particular number/type of pick (in any sense of the word)

Adjective

  1. Having a pick, or a particular number/type of pick (in any sense of the word)
  2. Chosen; selected.
    • For instance, in the year 1582 Akbar, who was a philosopher and a humorist as well as a model ruler, sent an invitation to the 'wise men among the Franks' at Goa to journey to Agra, there to meet in public controversy...
  3. Played by picking the strings
  4. Having a pike or spine on the back.
    • the picked dogfish
  5. fine; spruce; smart; precise; dainty
    • He is too / picked, too spruce, too affected, too odd, as it were, / too peregrinate, as I may call it. - c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Loues Labour’s Lost”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies,...
    • Why then I suck my teeth and catechize / My picked man of countries: - c. 1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Iohn”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […]...
  6. pointed; sharp
    • […] an useful bow a skilful bowyer wrought, / Which picked and polished both the ends he hid with horns of gold. - [1611?], Homer, “(please specify |book=I to XXIV)”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., The Iliads of Homer...
    • A very good way to take them, is to drive a stake into the ground about four foot high above the surface of the earth: Let the stake be made picked at the top, that the jay may not settle on it. - 1707, J[ohn] Mortimer,...

Forms

more picked most picked

Derived

handpicked hand-picked pickedness picked-strings prepicked

Verb

  1. simple past and past participle of pick