pickie (piki)

Eng.] picking (pik'ing), n. [Verbal n. of pick1, v.] 1. The act of one who picks, in any sense.2. In stone - working, same as dabbing, 1.-3. The final dre ing or finishing of woven fabrics by going over the surface and removing burs and blemishes by hand, or retouching the color with dye by means of a camel's-hair pencil. 4. pl. That which one can pick up or off; any thing left to be picked or gleaned. Compared with the scanty pickings I had now and then been able to glean at Lowood, they [books] seemed to offer an abundant harvest of entertainment and information. Charlotte Brontë , Jane Eyre, xi. 5. Pilfering; stealing; also, that which is obby means not strictly honest. tained by petty pilfering; perquisites gotten Heir or no heir, Lawyer Jermyn has had his picking out of the estate. George Eliot, Felix Holt, Int. 6. Removing picks or defects in electrotype plates with the tools of an electrotype-finisher. -7. pl . The pulverized shells of oysters, used in making walks.-8. A hard-burned brick. picking-peg (pik'ing-peg), the part that usually operated by means of a cord. picking-stick (pik'ing-stik), n . IMG:content-0135.png:[blocks in formation] Thou shalt be whipp'd with wire, and stew'd in brine, Smarting in lingering pickle . Shak., A. and C., ii. 5. 66. To have a rod in pickle for one, to have a beating, flogging, or scolding in reserve for one. [Colloq.] pickle2 (pik'l), v. t.; pret. and pp. pickled, ppr. pickling. [Formerly also pickel; = D. pekelen = LG. pekelen, pickle; from the noun.] 1. To piso, to preserve or put up with vinegar, etc.: as; preserve in pickle or brine; treat with pickle; to pickle herring; to pickle onions.-2. To imbue highly with anything bad: as, a pickled rogue. Johnson.-3. To prepare, as an imitation, and sell as genuine; give an antique appearance to: said of copies or imitations of paintings by the old masters. Art Journal.-4. To subject, as various hardware articles, to the action of certain chemical agents in the proce of manufacture. See pickle2, n., 4.-5. To treat with brine or pickle, as nets, to keep them from rotting. pickle3 (pik'l), n. [Also picle, pightle, pightel, pitle; origin obscure. Cf. pingle.] A small piece of land inclosed with a hedge; an inclosure; a close. pickle-cured (pik'l-kūrd), a. Preserved in brine, as fish: distinguished from dry - salted or kench cured. pickled (pik'ld), p. a. 1. Preserved in pickle. tle sprig of fennel and a sprinkling of white pepper. I could pick a little bit of pickled salmon, with a nice lit2. Briny. [Rare.] Dickens, Martin Chuzzlewit, xxv. My pickled eyes did vent Full streams of briny tears, tears never to be spent. Quarles , Emblems, iv. 12. 3t. Roguish. His poor boy Jack was the most comical bastard-ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, - a pickled dog; I shall never forget him. Farquhar, Recruiting Officer, v. 4. There is a set of merry drolls, whom the common people of all countries admire, those circumforaneous wits whom every nation calls by the name of that dish of meat which it loves best. In Holland they are termed pickled herrings; in France Jean Potages; in Italy macaronies; and in Great Britain jack-puddings. Add is on , Spectator, No. 47. 4. Same as peckled . The head (of the trout-fly] is of black silk or hair; the W. Lauson (Arber's Eng. Garner, I. 194). wings of a feather of a mallard, teal, or pickled hen's wing.