n. 掘, 选择, 挑选, 采摘, 撬开, [U]采得物, 捡得物, 赃物, 扒窃物

[经] 挑拣

Pick \Pick\ (p[i^]k), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Picked} (p[i^]kt); p.
pr. & vb. n. {Picking}.] [OE. picken, pikken, to prick, peck;
akin to Icel. pikka, Sw. picka, Dan. pikke, D. pikken, G.
picken, F. piquer, W. pigo. Cf. {Peck}, v., {Pike}, {Pitch}
to throw.]
1. To throw; to pitch. [Obs.]

As high as I could pick my lance. --Shak.

2. To peck at, as a bird with its beak; to strike at with
anything pointed; to act upon with a pointed instrument;
to pierce; to prick, as with a pin.

3. To separate or open by means of a sharp point or points;
as, to pick matted wool, cotton, oakum, etc.

4. To open (a lock) as by a wire.

5. To pull apart or away, especially with the fingers; to
pluck; to gather, as fruit from a tree, flowers from the
stalk, feathers from a fowl, etc.

6. To remove something from with a pointed instrument, with
the fingers, or with the teeth; as, to pick the teeth; to
pick a bone; to pick a goose; to pick a pocket.

Did you pick Master Slender's purse? --Shak.

He picks clean teeth, and, busy as he seems
With an old tavern quill, is hungry yet. --Cowper.

7. To choose; to select; to separate as choice or desirable;
to cull; as, to pick one's company; to pick one's way; --
often with out. ``One man picked out of ten thousand.''
--Shak.

8. To take up; esp., to gather from here and there; to
collect; to bring together; as, to pick rags; -- often
with up; as, to pick up a ball or stones; to pick up
information.

9. To trim. [Obs.] --Chaucer.

{To pick at}, to tease or vex by pertinacious annoyance.

{To pick a bone with}. See under {Bone}.

{To pick a thank}, to curry favor. [Obs.] --Robynson (More's
Utopia).

{To pick off}.
(a) To pluck; to remove by picking.
(b) To shoot or bring down, one by one; as, sharpshooters
pick off the enemy.

{To pick out}.
(a) To mark out; to variegate; as, to pick out any dark
stuff with lines or spots of bright colors.
(b) To select from a number or quantity.

{To pick to pieces}, to pull apart piece by piece; hence
[Colloq.], to analyze; esp., to criticize in detail.

{To pick a quarrel}, to give occasion of quarrel
intentionally.

{To pick up}.
(a) To take up, as with the fingers.
(b) To get by repeated efforts; to gather here and there;
as, to pick up a livelihood; to pick up news.


Picking \Pick"ing\, n.
1. The act of digging or breaking up, as with a pick.

2. The act of choosing, plucking, or gathering.

3. That which is, or may be, picked or gleaned.

4. Pilfering; also, that which is pilfered.

5. pl. The pulverized shells of oysters used in making walks.
[Eng.] --Simmonds.

6. (Mining) Rough sorting of ore.

7. Overburned bricks. --Simmonds.


Picking \Pick"ing\, a.
1. Done or made as with a pointed tool; as, a picking sound.

2. Nice; careful. [Obs.]

was too warm on picking work to dwell. --Dryden.

{Picking peg}. (Weaving) See {Picker}, n., 3.