Emily Dickinson Lexicon

PICK'LE, v.t.

1. To preserve in brine or pickle; as, to pickle herring.
2. To season in pickle.
3. To imbue highly with any thing bad; as, a pickled rogue.

PICK'LED, pp.

Preserved in brine or pickle.

PICK-LE-HER'RING, n.

A merry Andrew; a zany; a buffoon. – Spectator.

PICK'LING, ppr.

Seasoning in pickle.

PICK'LOCK, n. [pick and lock.]

1. An instrument for opening locks without the key. – Arbuthnot. L'Estrange.
2. A person who picks locks.

PICK'NICK, n.

An assembly where each person contributes to the entertainment. – Chalmers.

PICK'POCK-ET, n.

One who steals from the pocket of another. – Arbuthnot.

PICK'PURSE, n.

One that steals from the purse of another. – Swift.

PICK'THANK, n.

An officious fellow who does what he is not desired to do, for the sake of gaining favor; a whispering parasite. – South.

PICK'TOOTH, n.

An instrument for picking or cleaning the teeth. [But toothpick is more generally used.]

PI-CO, n. [Sp. See Peak.]

A peak; the pointed head of a mountain.

PIC'RO-LITE, n.

A mineral composed chiefly of the carbonate of magnesia, of a green color. [See Pikrolite.]

PIC'RO-MEL, n. [Gr. πικρος, bitter.]

The characteristic principle of bile. – Ure.

PIC-ROS'MINE, n. [Gr. πικρος, bitter, and οσμη, smell.]

An order of minerals, which, when moistened, have an argillaceous smell. – Shepard.

PIC-RO-TOX'IN, n. [Gr. πικρος, bitter, and L. toxicum.]

A white crystaline substance obtained from the fruit of Anamirta paniculata, and perhaps of Cocculus suberosus, and one of their active principles. It is composed of carbon, hydrogen and oxygen, and appears to be a feeble acid; and as such, it is called picrotoxic acid.

PICT, n. [L. pictus, pingo.]

A person whose body is painted.

PIC-TO'RI-AL, a. [L. pictor, a painter.]

Pertaining to a painter; produced by a painter. – Brown.

PIC-TO'RI-AL-LY, adv.

With pictures.

PICTS, n.

A tribe of Scythians or Germans who settled in Scotland.

PIC'TU-RAL, n.

A representation. [Not in use.] – Spenser.

PIC'TURE, n. [L. pictura, from pingo, to paint; It. pittura.]

1. A painting exhibiting the resemblance of any thing; a likeness drawn in colors. Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects. – Bacon.
2. The works of painters; painting. Quintilian, when he saw any well expressed image of grief, either in picture or sculpture, would usually weep. – Wotton.
3. Any resemblance or representation, either to the eye or to the understanding. Thus we say, a child is the picture of his father; the poet has drawn an exquisite picture of grief.

PIC'TURE, v.t.

1. To paint a resemblance. Love is like a painter, who, in drawing the picture of a friend having a blemish in one eye, would picture only the other side of the face. – South.
2. To represent; to form or present an ideal likeness. I do picture it in my mind. – Spenser.

PIC'TUR-ED, pp.

Painted in resemblance; drawn in colors; represented.

PIC'TURE-LIKE, a.

After the manner of a picture. – Shak.

PIC-TUR-ESQUE', or PIC-TUR-ESK', a. [Fr. pittoresque; It. pittoresco; from the L. pictura or pictor. In English this would be picturish.]

Expressing that peculiar kind of beauty which is agreeable in a picture, natural or artificial; striking the mind with great power or pleasure in representing objects of vision, and in painting to the imagination any circumstance or event as clearly as if delineated in a picture. – Gray.