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nse, -- 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.

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

A toothpick. [Obs.] Shak.

cularly to the party which opposed the adoption of the constitution of the United States. Pickering.

barrens; oak barrens. They are not necessarily sterile, and are often fertile. [Amer.] J. Pickering.

One who gathers rags and odds and ends; a ragpicker.

To assess a tax upon, by estimate or at discretion. [New England] J. Pickering.

A genus of fresh-water fishes, including pike and pickerel.

One who makes excerpts; a picker; a culler.

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.

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

A young pike; a pickerel.

mall American fresh-water fish of the genus Umbra, as U. limi. The genus is allied to the pickerels. -- Mud plug, a plug for stopping the mudhole of a boiler. -- Mud puppy (Zoöl.), the menobranchus. -- Mud scow, a heavy scow, used in dredging; a mud boat. [U.S.] -- Mud turtle, Mud tortoise (Zoöl.), any one of numero…

f an army, or of a deliberative body. "The first organization of the general government." Pickering.

or cylinder (Figure Weaving), devices, in a loom, for presenting several shuttles to the picker in the proper succession for forming the figure. -- Pattern card. (a) A set of samples on a card. (b) (Weaving) One of the perforated cards in a Jacquard apparatus. -- Pattern reader, one who arranges textile patterns. -…