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from The Century Dictionary.

  • A Middle English form of piked.

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Examples

  • Another forme is called _Oictros_, or cõmiseracion, wherby teares be pyked out, or pyty is moued, or forgeuenes, as in Ciceros peroraciõs, and complaintes in Poets: And to be shorte ther is gotten no greater admiracion or commendacion of eloquence then of these two, _AEtopeia_, and _Pathopeia_, if they be vsed in place.

    A Treatise of Schemes and Tropes Richard Sherry

  • The ravens had not pyked his bones bare before the Scots were up again for freedom.

    A Short History of Scotland Andrew Lang 1878

  • Take gode Eerbys and grynde hem smale with wallenotes pyked clene. a grete portioun. lye it up almost wiþ as myche verions as water. seeþ it wel with powdour and Safroun withoute Salt. make a crust in a trape and do þe fyssh þerinne unstewed wiþ a litel oile & gode

    The Forme of Cury A Roll of Ancient English Cookery Compiled, about A.D. 1390 Samuel Pegge 1750

  • & mynce the gobone thynne, and laye it in the galentyne; than set it vpo {n} the fyre to hete. [h]  Fresshe herynge with salte & wyne/shrympes wel pyked, flou {n} dres, gogyons, menewes & musceles, eles and lamprayes: [i]  sprottes is good in sewe/musculade in wortes/oystres

    Early English Meals and Manners Frederick James Furnivall 1867

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