pique (que as k) (1), pike

[O. French picque, pique a pike a quarrel.] [PIKE, 8. I. Ordinary Language: 1. Offense taken; slight irritation, anger, or ill feeling toward persons, arising from wounded pride, vanity, or self-love. "This imputation of ill nature does the work of pique and envy."- South : Sermons , vol. i., ser. 3. *2. A strong desire, longing, or pa ion. "And though it have the pique and long 'Tis still for something to the wrong. Butler: Hudibras, iii. 2. Perhaps the same as PICA 3 (q. v.). 3. Nicety, punctilio, a point. " Pique of honor to maintain a cause." Dryden: Hind and Panther , iii. 400. II. Cards: In Picket, the right that the elder hand has to count thirty or to play before his adversary counts one. Fabric: A French material, made of two cotton threads, one thicker than the other, which are woven and united at certain points, and there made an extra thickne . The pattern is usually of a lozenge shape. piqué-work, subst. A minute kind of buhl-work; inlaying metals in metals, usually.