Dictionary entry

Picked

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Pick″ed (?), a. 1. Pointed; sharp. “Picked and polished.” Chapman.

Let the stake be made picked at the top. Mortimer.

2. (Zoöl.) 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. (Zoöl.) 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.