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PICK, L. pecto.

1. To pull off or pluck with the fingers something that grows or adheres to another thing to separate by the hand, as fruit from trees as, to pick apples or oranges to pick strawberries.

2. To pull off or separate with the teeth, beak or claws as, to pick flesh from a bone hence,

3. To clean by the teeth, fingers or claws, or by a small instrument, by separating something that adheres as, to pick a bone to pick the ears.

4. To take up to cause or seek industriously as, to pick a quarrel.

5. To separate or pull asunder to pull into small parcels by the fingers to separate locks for loosening and cleaning as, to pick wool.

6. To pierce to strike with a pointed instrument as, to pick an apple with a pin.

7. To strike with the bill or beak to puncture. In this sense, we generally use peck.

8. To steal by taking out with the fingers or hands as, to pick the pocket.

9. To open by a pointed instrument as, to pick a lock.

10. To select to cull to separate particular things from others as, to pick the best men from a company. In this sense,the word is often followed by out.

To pick off, to separate by the fingers or by a small pointed instrument.

pick out, to select to separate individuals from numbers.

To pick up, to take up with the fingers or beak also, to take particular things here and there to gather to glean.

To pick a hole in one's coat, to find fault.

PICK, To eat slowly or by morsels to nibble.

1. To do any thing nicely or by attending to small things.

PICK, n. A sharp pointed tool for digging or removing in small quantities.

What the miners call chert and whern--is so hard that the picks will not touch it.

1. Choice right of selection. You may have your pick.

2. Among printers, foul matter which collects on printing types from the balls, bad ink, or from the paper impressed.