PPage 200
- English Word Picking Definition Nice; careful.
- English Word Pickle Definition See Picle.
- English Word Pickle Definition A solution of salt and water, in which fish, meat, etc., may be preserved or corned; brine.
- English Word Pickle Definition Vinegar, plain or spiced, used for preserving vegetables, fish, eggs, oysters, etc.
- English Word Pickle Definition Any article of food which has been preserved in brine or in vinegar.
- English Word Pickle Definition A bath of dilute sulphuric or nitric acid, etc., to remove burnt sand, scale rust, etc., from the surface of castings, or other articles of metal, or to brighten them or improve their color.
- English Word Pickle Definition A troublesome child; as, a little pickle.
- English Word Pickle Definition To preserve or season in pickle; to treat with some kind of pickle; as, to pickle herrings or cucumbers.
- English Word Pickle Definition To give an antique appearance to; -- said of copies or imitations of paintings by the old masters.
- English Word Pickle-herring Definition A herring preserved in brine; a pickled herring.
- English Word Pickle-herring Definition A merry-andrew; a buffoon.
- English Word Pickled Definition of Pickle
- English Word Pickled Definition Preserved in a pickle.
- English Word Pickler Definition One who makes pickles.
- English Word Pickling Definition of Pickle
- English Word Picklock Definition An instrument for picking locks.
- English Word Picklock Definition One who picks locks; a thief.
- English Word Pickmire Definition The pewit, or black-headed gull.
- English Word Picknick Definition See Picnic.
- English Word Pickpack Definition Pickaback.
- English Word Pickpennies Definition of Pickpenny
- English Word Pickpenny Definition A miser; also, a sharper.
- English Word Pickpocket Definition One who steals purses or other articles from pockets.
- English Word Pickpurse Definition One who steals purses, or money from purses.
- English Word Picksy Definition See Pixy.
- English Word Pickthank Definition One who strives to put another under obligation; an officious person; hence, a flatterer. Used also adjectively.
- English Word Picktooth Definition A toothpick.
- English Word Picnic Definition Formerly, an entertainment at which each person contributed some dish to a common table; now, an excursion or pleasure party in which the members partake of a collation or repast (usually in the open air, and from food carried by themselves).
- English Word Picnic Definition To go on a picnic, or pleasure excursion; to eat in public fashion.
- English Word Picnicked Definition of Picnic