picked

verb

1. (form-of, participle, past)simple past and past participle of pick

adj

1. (often)Having a pick, or a particular number/type of pick (in any sense of the word)
2. Chosen; selected.

   “For instance, in the year 1582 Akbar, who was a philosopher and a humorist as well as a model ruler, sent an invitation to the 'wise men among the Franks' at Goa to journey to Agra, there to meet in public controversy before him a picked band of Mohammedan mullas and prove the superiority of their faith.”

3. Played by picking the strings
4. Having a pike or spine on the back.

   “the picked dogfish”

5. (obsolete)fine; spruce; smart; precise; dainty

   “He is too / picked, too spruce, too affected, too odd, as it were, / too peregrinate, as I may call it.”

   “Why then I suck my teeth and catechize / My picked man of countries:”

6. (obsolete)pointed; sharp

   “[…] an useful bow a skilful bowyer wrought, / Which picked and polished both the ends he hid with horns of gold.”

   “A very good way to take them, is to drive a stake into the ground about four foot high above the surface of the earth: Let the stake be made picked at the top, that the jay may not settle on it.”