Pick
Webster's Dictionary [1]
(1): ( v.) To trim.
(2): ( v. i.) To eat slowly, sparingly, or by morsels; to nibble.
(3): ( v. i.) To steal; to pilfer.
(4): ( v.) To throw; to pitch.
(5): ( n.) That which would be picked or chosen first; the best; as, the pick of the flock.
(6): ( n.) Choice; right of selection; as, to have one's pick.
(7): ( v. i.) To do anything nicely or carefully, or by attending to small things; to select something with care.
(8): ( n.) A sharp-pointed tool for picking; - often used in composition; as, a toothpick; a picklock.
(9): ( n.) A particle of ink or paper imbedded in the hollow of a letter, filling up its face, and occasioning a spot on a printed sheet.
(10): ( v.) 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.
(11): ( v.) 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.
(12): ( n.) A pike or spike; the sharp point fixed in the center of a buckler.
(13): ( v.) 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.
(14): ( n.) The blow which drives the shuttle, - the rate of speed of a loom being reckoned as so many picks per minute; hence, in describing the fineness of a fabric, a weft thread; as, so many picks to an inch.
(15): ( n.) A heavy iron tool, curved and sometimes pointed at both ends, wielded by means of a wooden handle inserted in the middle, - used by quarrymen, roadmakers, etc.; also, a pointed hammer used for dressing millstones.
(16): ( n.) That which is picked in, as with a pointed pencil, to correct an unevenness in a picture.
(17): ( v.) 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.
(18): ( v.) To open (a lock) as by a wire.
(19): ( v.) 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.
(20): ( v.) To separate or open by means of a sharp point or points; as, to pick matted wool, cotton, oakum, etc.
King James Dictionary [2]
Pick, L pecto.
1. To pull off or pluck with the fingers something that grows or adheres to another thing to separate by the hand, as fruit from trees as, to pick apples or oranges to pick strawberries. 2. To pull off or separate with the teeth, beak or claws as, to pick flesh from a bone hence, 3. To clean by the teeth, fingers or claws, or by a small instrument, by separating something that adheres as, to pick a bone to pick the ears. 4. To take up to cause or seek industriously as, to pick a quarrel. 5. To separate or pull asunder to pull into small parcels by the fingers to separate locks for loosening and cleaning as, to pick wool. 6. To pierce to strike with a pointed instrument as, to pick an apple with a pin. 7. To strike with the bill or beak to puncture. In this sense, we generally use peck. 8. To steal by taking out with the fingers or hands as, to pick the pocket. 9. To open by a pointed instrument as, to pick a lock. 10. To select to cull to separate particular things from others as, to pick the best men from a company. In this sense,the word is often followed by out.
To pick off, to separate by the fingers or by a small pointed instrument.
pick out, to select to separate individuals from numbers.
To pick up, to take up with the fingers or beak also, to take particular things here and there to gather to glean.
To pick a hole in one's coat, to find fault.
PICK, To eat slowly or by morsels to nibble.
1. To do any thing nicely or by attending to small things.
PICK, n. A sharp pointed tool for digging or removing in small quantities.
What the miners call chert and whern--is so hard that the picks will not touch it.
1. Choice right of selection. You may have your pick. 2. Among printers, foul matter which collects on printing types from the balls, bad ink, or from the paper impressed.
Holman Bible Dictionary [3]
Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature [4]
a name common to several Hebrew literati, of whom we mention the following:
1. Aaron — When and where he was born, and when lie became a Christian, we do not know. From his publicatiios we see, what he states himself, that he was formerly professor of Hebrew and Chaldee at the University of Prague. He afterwards resided at London, where he published A Literal Translationfrnom the Hebrew of the Twelve Minor Prophets, with Notes and Critical Remarks (Lond. 1833; 2d ed., without notes, ibid. 1835; 3d ed. 1838): — A Treatise on the Hebrew Accents (ibid. 1837): — The Bible Student's Concordance, by which the English Reader may be enabled readily to ascertain the Literal Meaning of any Word in the Sacred Original (ibid. 1840, 1850, 4to); a work of little account to scholars: — The Gathering of Israel (ibid. 1845). When Pick died we do not know. See Steinschneider, Bibliographisches Handbuch (Berl. 1859), page 111; Allibone, Dict. of Brit. and Amer. Authors, s.v.
2. ISRAEL, the founder of the Amenian Congregation, was born at Seuftenberg, Bohemia, about the year 1825. After attaining maturity, he obtained his livelihood by writing for periodicals at Vienna till the year 1852, when he received an appointment to act as rabbi for the Jewish synagogue in Bucharest, the chief city of the present Roumania. In the latter part of 1853, having been impressed in favor of the Christian religion, lie boldly confessed his faith in Christ crucified; was baptized at Breslau, Silesia, Jan. 1,1854, on which occasion Pick delivered an address to the Jews assembled at the Hofkirche.Viewing the promises given to the Jewish people in the Old Testament from a Hebraic standpoint, Pick :intended to constitute in the Holy Land a congregation of the people of God, consisting of Jewish Christians. The whole Mosaic law, including the Jewish Sabbath and circumcision, alongside of baptism and theLord's Supper, he intended to make the basis of ecclesiastical and civil organization. Here and there he was successful in winning some believers, whom he called the Armenian Congregation, because in Christ (the אלהי אמן , Isaiah 65:16) all promises of the Old Covenant are yea and amen. The nucleus of this congregation was in Munchen-Stadbach. In the year 1857 Pick went to Palestine, in order to reconnoitre the field for a settlement of his adherents, where, however, he disappearedwithout leaving any traces. He wrote, Israel Hat Eine Idee Zu Tragen: Ein Wort An Mein Volk (Breslau, 1854; Engl. translation, "A Word to my People," Edinburgh, 1854): — Der Gott Der Synagoge Und Der Gott Der Judenchristen (ibid.): — Briefe An Meine Stammesgenossen (Hamburg, 1854): — Der Stern aus Jacob (ibid. 1855-56): — Wider Stahl und Bunsen (Barmen, 1856). See Kurtz, Lehrbuch der Kirchengeschichte (7th ed. Mitau, 1874), 2:445; Niedner, Lehrbuch der christlichen Kirchengeschichte (Berlin, 1866), page 950; Jewish Intelligencer (Lond. 1854), page 302 sq.; Pick, In Saat auf Hoffnung (Leips.), 1857; Zuchhold, Bibliotheca Theologica, 2:995. (B.P.)
