Too much pickedness is not manly.
B. Jonson.
Pick*eer" (?), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Pickeered (?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Pickeering.] [F. picorer to go marauding, orig., to go to steal cattle,
ultimately fr. L. pecus, pecoris, cattle; cf. F. picorÈe, Sp. pecorea
robbery committed by straggling soldiers.] To make a raid for booty; to
maraud; also, to skirmish in advance of an army. See Picaroon. [Obs.]
Bp. Burnet.