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A troublesome child; as, a little pickle. [Colloq.] To be in a pickle, to be in disagreeable position; to be in a condition of embarrassment, difficulty, or disorder. "How cam'st thou in this pickle" Shak. -- To put a rod in pickle, to prepare a particular reproof, punishment, or penalty for future application.…

A herring preserved in brine; a pickled herring. [Obs.] Shak.

Preserved in a pickle.

One who makes pickles.

An instrument for picking locks. Shak.

The pewit, or black-headed gull. [Prov. Eng.]

See Picnic.

Pickaback.

A miser; also, a sharper. Dr. H. More.

One who steals purses or other articles from pockets. Bentley.

One who steals purses, or money from purses. Latimer. Shak.

See Pixy.

under obligation; an officious person; hence, a flatterer. Used also adjectively. Smiling pickthanks, and base newsmongers. Shak.

A toothpick. [Obs.] Swift.

An instrument for removing wax from the ear.

Arsenical iron pyrites; arsenopyrite.

A small piece of land inclosed with a hedge; a close. [Obs.] [Written also pickle.]

One who gets a living by picking up rags and refuse things in the streets.

A spike or nail. [Prov. Eng.] Spick and span, quite new; that is, as new as a spike or nail just made and a chip just split; brand- new; as, a spick and span novelty. See Span-new. Howell.

An umbelliferous herb (Meum Athamanticum) having finely divided leaves, common in Europe; -- called also baldmoney, mew, and bearwort. [Written also spignel.]