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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.]

One who, or that which, picks, in any sense, -- as, one who uses a pick; one who gathers; a thief; a pick; a pickax; as, a cotton picker. "Pickers and stealers." Shak.

A young or small pike. [Obs.] Bet [better] is, quoth he, a pike than a pickerel. Chaucer.

The sauger of the St.Lawrence River.

Petty theft. [Scot.] Holinshed.

from surprise, and to oppose reconnoitering parties of the enemy; -- called also outlying picket.

See Picotee.

The act of digging or breaking up, as with a pick.