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A Brazilian armadillo (Dasypus minutus); the little armadillo. [Written also pichiy.]

atus), allied to the armadillos. The shell is attached only along the back. [Written also pichyciego.]

The seed of a Brazilian lauraceous tree (Nectandra Puchury) of a taste and smell between those of nutmeg and of sassafras, -- sometimes used medicinally. Called also sassafras nut.

A division of birds including the woodpeckers and wrynecks.

Of or pertaining to Piciformes.

A group of birds including the woodpeckers, toucans, barbets, colies, kingfishes, hornbills, and some other related groups.

Of or pertaining to the woodpeckers (Pici), or to the Piciformes.

To throw; to pitch. [Obs.] As high as I could pick my lance. Shak.

One who seeks out faults.

A stimulant, restorative, or tonic; a bracer. [Colloq.]

Act of picking up, as, in various games, the fielding or hitting of a ball just after it strikes the ground.

On the back or shoulders; as, to ride pickback. [Written also pickapack, pickback, and pickpack.] A woman stooping to take a child pickaback. R,Jefferies.

A small child; especially, a negro or mulatto infant. [U.S. & West Indies]

Pickaback.

A pick with a point at one end, a transverse edge or blade at the other, and a handle inserted at the middle; a hammer with a flattened end for driving wedges and a pointed end for piercing as it strikes. Shak.

On the back.

Pointed; sharp. "Picked and polished." Chapman. Let the stake be made picked at the top. Mortimer.

Fineness; spruceness; smartness. [Obs.] Too much pickedness is not manly. B. Jonson.

To make a raid for booty; to maraud; also, to skirmish in advance of an army. See Picaroon. [Obs.] Bp. Burnet.

One who pickeers. [Obs.]