pick purse (pik pers)

[ The pikepurs and eek the pale drede. Chaucer , Knight's Tale, 1. 1140. Down with Christ's cro , up with purgatory pick purse . Latimer , Sermon of the Plough. I think he is not a pick - purse nor a horse-stealer. Shak., As you Like it, iii. 4. 24. 2. Same as pickpocket, 2. pickquarrelt (pik'kwor"el), n. [ There shall be men that love themselves, covetous, high-minded, proud, railers, disobedient to father and mother, unthankful, ungodly, churlish, promise-breakers, accusers, pick quarrels . Tyndale , Ans. to Sir T. More, etc. (Parker Soc., 1850), p. 105.