Defn: 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.
PICKBACK
Pick"back`, adv.
Defn: On the back.
PICKED
Pick"ed, a.
1. Pointed; sharp. "Picked and polished." Chapman. Let the stake be made picked at the top. Mortimer.
2. (Zoöl.)
Defn: Having a pike or spine on the back; — said of certain fishes.
3. Carefully selected; chosen; as, picked men.
4. Fine; spruce; smart; precise; dianty. [Obs.] Shak. Picked dogfish. (Zoöl.) See under Dogfish. — Picked out, ornamented or relieved with lines, or the like, of a different, usually a lighter, color; as, a carriage body dark green, picked out with red.
PICKEDNESS
Pick"ed*ness, n.