Word Meanings - PICKED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Having a pike or spine on the back; -- said of certain fishes. 3. Carefully selected; chosen; as, picked men. 4. Fine; spruce; smart; precise; dianty. Shak. Picked dogfish. See under Dogfish. -- Picked out, ornamented or relieved with lines, or

Additional info about word: PICKED

Having a pike or spine on the back; -- said of certain fishes. 3. Carefully selected; chosen; as, picked men. 4. Fine; spruce; smart; precise; dianty. Shak. Picked dogfish. See under Dogfish. -- Picked out, ornamented or relieved with lines, or the like, of a different, usually a lighter, color; as, a carriage body dark green, picked out with red. (more info) 1. Pointed; sharp. "Picked and polished." Chapman. Let the stake be made picked at the top. Mortimer.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of PICKED)

• Select
• Choice
• picked
• fine
• prime
• chosen
• selected
• excellent

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of PICKED)

• Lump
• confound
• sweep

Related words: (words related to PICKED)

• PICKABACK
  A woman stooping to take a child pickaback. R,Jefferies.
• CONFOUNDED
  1. Confused; perplexed. A cloudy and confounded philosopher. Cudworth. 2. Excessive; extreme; abominable. He was a most confounded tory. Swift. The tongue of that confounded woman. Sir. W. Scott.
• PICK-FAULT
  One who seeks out faults.
• PRIMEVALLY
  In a primeval manner; in or from the earliest times; originally. Darwin.
• CHOICELY
  1. With care in choosing; with nice regard to preference. "A band of men collected choicely, from each county some." Shak. 2. In a preferable or excellent manner; excellently; eminently. "Choicely good." Walton.
• PICKEER
  To make a raid for booty; to maraud; also, to skirmish in advance of an army. See Picaroon. Bp. Burnet. (more info) cattle, ultimately fr. L. pecus, pecoris, cattle; cf. F. picorée, Sp.
• PICKPACK
  Pickaback.
• PICKET
  A detached body of troops serving to guard an army from surprise, and to oppose reconnoitering parties of the enemy; -- called also outlying picket. 4. By extension, men appointed by a trades union, or other labor organization, to intercept
• PICKPENNY
  A miser; also, a sharper. Dr. H. More.
• PICK-UP; PICKUP
  = Brush b. 3. One that is picked up, as a meal hastily got up for the occasion, a chance acquaintance, an informal game, etc. (more info) 1. Act of picking up, as, in various games, the fielding or hitting of a ball just after it strikes
• PICKSY
  See PIXY
• PICKTHANK
  One who strives to put another under obligation; an officious person; hence, a flatterer. Used also adjectively. Smiling pickthanks, and base newsmongers. Shak.
• SWEEPAGE
  The crop of hay got in a meadow.
• CHOICEFUL
  Making choices; fickle. His choiceful sense with every change doth fit. Spenser.
• PICKEERER
  One who pickeers.
• PICK
  Dan. pikke, D. pikken, G. picken, F. piquer, W. pigo. Cf. Peck, v., 1. To throw; to pitch. As high as I could pick my lance. Shak. 2. To peck at, as a bird with its beak; to strike at with anything pointed; to act upon with a pointed instrument;
• CONFOUNDEDLY
  Extremely; odiously; detestably. "Confoundedly sick." Goldsmith.
• PICKTOOTH
  A toothpick. Swift.
• PICKLOCK
  1. An instrument for picking locks. Shak. 2. One who picks locks; a thief. "A picklock of secrets." Jer. Taylor.
• SWEEPING
  Cleaning off surfaces, or cleaning away dust, dirt, or litter, as a broom does; moving with swiftness and force; carrying everything before it; including in its scope many persons or things; as, a sweeping flood; a sweeping majority; a sweeping
• ENSWEEP
  To sweep over or across; to pass over rapidly. Thomson.
• UNPICK
  To pick out; to undo by picking.
• EARPICK
  An instrument for removing wax from the ear.
• REPRIMER
  A machine or implement for applying fresh primers to spent cartridge shells, so that the shells be used again.
• MISPICKEL
  Arsenical iron pyrites; arsenopyrite.
• PEASWEEP
  The pewit, or lapwing. The greenfinch.