pickwick

A pointed instrument for picking up the wick of a lamp. *pick (2), s . [A. S. pic .] Pitch, tar. pick-a-back, * pick-a-pack, * pick-pack, pick-back, adv . & s. [A redupl. of pack . ] A. As adv .: On the back or shoulders, like a pack. B. As subst.: A ride on the back or shoulders. *pick-age (age as Ig), s . [PICCAGE.] pick-a-nin-nỹ, pic-ca-nin-nỹ, s . [Spanish pequeno niño little infant.] A negro or mulatto infant, a child. "The plaguy negroes and their piccaninnies ." Hood: A Black Job. pick-a-păck, adv . [PICKABACK.] pick-ǎx, pick-axe, *pick-eys, *pick-oys, *pick-ois, *pik-oys, *pykke-axe, *pyk-eys, s . [A popular corrupt. of O. Fr. picois , piquois , pic quois , from piquer to prick, pierce, or thrust into, from pica pickax, a pick, from Bret. pik =a pick; Welsh pig a point; Irish & Gael. piocaid =a pickax.] [PEAK, PICK, PIKE.] An implement resem bling a pick, except that one end of the head is broad and sharp, so as to cut. pick-back, adv. & 8. [PICKABACK.] picked, *piked, pa. par. & a. [PICK, υ.] A. As pa. par.: (See the verb.) B. As adjective : *3. Smart, spruce. ""Tis such a picked fellow, not a hair About his whole bulk, but it stands in print." Chapman: All Fools , v. 1. picked dog-fish, s. picked Ichthy.: Acanthi as vulgar is , the smallest and most abundant of the North Atlantic sharks. *picke-de-vant, *picke-de-vaunt, s. [English picked , and Fr. devant in front.] A beard cut to a sharp point in the middle under the chin. "You have many toyes with such Pickedevaunts , I am sure."-Taming of a Shrew, p. 184. *pick-ěd-ly, adv . [Eng. picked ; -ly .] Smartly, sprucely, finely. "People goodly and pickedly arrayed."-Vives: Instruct, of a Christian Woman, bk. i., ch. xvi.