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A pickpocket or thief. [Eng. Slang] Dickens.

er; -- called also Swedish green. It may enter into various pigments called parrot green, pickel green, Brunswick green, nereid green, or emerald green.

A body of picked troops; as, "The Household Guards."

A pickax with one sharp point and one cutting edge. Knight.

An implement for cutting a notch; a large pick used in breaking stone.

reater part or bulk of anything; as, the heft of the crop was spoiled. [Colloq. U. S.] J. Pickering.

a moth (Hypena humuli), which in the larval state is very injurious to hop vines. -- Hop picker, one who picks hops. -- Hop pole, a pole used to support hop vines. -- Hop tree (Bot.), a small American tree (Ptelia trifoliata), having broad, flattened fruit in large clusters, sometimes used as a substitute for hops.…

The piping frog (Hyla Pickeringii), a small American tree frog, which in early spring, while breeding in swamps and ditches, sings with high, shrill, but musical, notes.

shearwater (Puffinus gelidus) of the Antarctic seas, abundant among floating ice. -- Ice pick, a sharp instrument for breaking ice into small pieces. -- Ice pilot, a pilot who has charge of a vessel where the course is obstructed by ice, as in polar seas; -- called also ice master. -- Ice pitcher, a pitcher adapted…

acter, color, qualities, conduct, manners, and the like; to counterfeit; to copy. A place picked out by choice of best alive The Nature's work by art can imitate. Spenser. This hand appeared a shining sword to weild, And that sustained an imitated shield. Dryden.

on. Mercury . . . owns it a marriage by an innuendo. Dryden. Pursue your trade of scandal picking; Your innuendoes, when you tell us, That Stella loves to talk with fellows. Swift.

nce. Pinckney and Marshall would not make inofficial visits to discuss official business. Pickering.

A young pike; a pickerel.

Pieces of old cable or old cordage, used for making gaskets, mats, swabs, etc., and when picked to pieces, forming oakum for filling the seams of ships.

Large lumps picked out of the sieve, in dressing ore.

ide, esp. one with a noose; -- used as a lasso for catching cattle, horses, etc., and for picketing a horse so that he can graze without wandering. [Mexico & Western U.S.]

s are fleshy and luscious, and others tough and tasting of turpentine. The green fruit is pickled for market.

A brine or pickle containing wine and spices, for enriching the flavor of meat and fish.

To salt or pickle, as fish, and then preserve in oil or vinegar; to prepare by the use of marinade.

s two long steel blades, one like an adz and the other like a narrow ax or the point of a pickax. 'T is you must dig with mattock and with spade. Shak.