Word Meanings - GUARDS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A body of picked troops; as, "The Household Guards."

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• TROOPSHIP
  A vessel built or fitted for the conveyance of troops; a transport.
• PICKABACK
  A woman stooping to take a child pickaback. R,Jefferies.
• PICK-FAULT
  One who seeks out faults.
• PICKEER
  To make a raid for booty; to maraud; also, to skirmish in advance of an army. See Picaroon. Bp. Burnet. (more info) cattle, ultimately fr. L. pecus, pecoris, cattle; cf. F. picorée, Sp.
• GUARDS
  A body of picked troops; as, "The Household Guards."
• PICKPACK
  Pickaback.
• PICKET
  A detached body of troops serving to guard an army from surprise, and to oppose reconnoitering parties of the enemy; -- called also outlying picket. 4. By extension, men appointed by a trades union, or other labor organization, to intercept
• PICKPENNY
  A miser; also, a sharper. Dr. H. More.
• PICK-UP; PICKUP
  = Brush b. 3. One that is picked up, as a meal hastily got up for the occasion, a chance acquaintance, an informal game, etc. (more info) 1. Act of picking up, as, in various games, the fielding or hitting of a ball just after it strikes
• PICKSY
  See PIXY
• PICKTHANK
  One who strives to put another under obligation; an officious person; hence, a flatterer. Used also adjectively. Smiling pickthanks, and base newsmongers. Shak.
• PICKEERER
  One who pickeers.
• PICK
  Dan. pikke, D. pikken, G. picken, F. piquer, W. pigo. Cf. Peck, v., 1. To throw; to pitch. 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;
• PICKTOOTH
  A toothpick. Swift.
• PICKLOCK
  1. An instrument for picking locks. Shak. 2. One who picks locks; a thief. "A picklock of secrets." Jer. Taylor.
• PICKING
  The pulverized shells of oysters used in making walks. Simmonds. (more info) 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,
• PICKNICK
  See PICNIC
• PICKLE
  See PICLE
• PICKMIRE
  The pewit, or black-headed gull.
• PICKAX; PICKAXE
  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.
• UNPICK
  To pick out; to undo by picking.
• EARPICK
  An instrument for removing wax from the ear.
• MISPICKEL
  Arsenical iron pyrites; arsenopyrite.
• RAGPICKER
  One who gets a living by picking up rags and refuse things in the streets.
• SPICK
  A spike or nail. Spick and span, quite new; that is, as new as a spike or nail just made and a chip just split; brand- new; as, a spick and span novelty. See Span-new. Howell.