10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PICKEDNESS»
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A Glossary: Or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and ...
The Table of Cebes, by Poyngs, n. d. PICKEDNESS, s. Neat, spruce niceness.
After speaking of those □who are always " kempt and perfumed," and
exceedingly curious in mending little imperfections, Ben Jonson says, Too much
pickedness ...
Robert Nares, James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, Thomas Wright, 1859
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A Glossary; Or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and ...
The Table ofCehes, hy Poyngs, n. d. PICKEDNESS, t. Neat, spruce niceness.
After speaking of those who are always " kempt and perfumed," and exceedingly
curious in mending little imperfections, Ben Jonson says, Too mach pickedness
is ...
Robert Nares, James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, Thomas Wright, 1867
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A Glossary: Or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and ...
PICKEDNESS, s. Neat, spruce niceness. After speaking of those who are always
" kempt and perfumed," and • exceedingly curious in mending little imperfections,
Ben Jonson says, Too much wickedness is not manly. Discoveries, p. 1 16.
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The plays and poems of William Shakspeare
And Shakspeare, in this very play, uses the corresponding word pruning for
dressing, Act IV. Sc. III.: " or spend a minute's time " In pruning me — ." The
substantive pickedness is used by Ben Jonson for nicety in dress. Discoveries,
vol. vii.
William Shakespeare, Edmond Malone, James Boswell, 1821
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Dictionary of Obsolete and Provincial English: Containing ...
Pickeer, v. (Span.) To rob, or pillage. Pickedness, s. Neat, spruce nice- ness. See
Pick. Too much pickedness is not manly. Ben Jonson, Discoveries. Picken, v. To
sharpen the points of anything. Picker,*. A gipsy, or tramp. Suss. Pickerel, 1 . •, ...
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The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: Measure for ...
Farmer. 4 — too picked,] i. e. nicely dressed. The substantive pickedness i« used
by Ben Jonson for nicety in drift. Discoveries, vol. vii. p. 116 : ~-" too much
pickedness is not manly." Tyrwhitt. Again, in Naihe's Apologie of turret Penniless,
1593: ...
William Shakespeare, Edmond Malone, Samuel Johnson, 1790
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The plays of William Shakespeare ...: With the corrections ...
9885 : " He kembeth him, he proin. eth him and piketh." And Shakspeare, in this
very play, uses the corresponding word pruning for dressing, Act IV, sc. Hi: " . . -
or spend a minute's time " In pruning me — ." The substantive pickedness is used
...
William Shakespeare, Joseph Dennie, Isaac Reed, 1805
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A new universal etymological technological, and pronouncing ...
He la too picked, too spruce, too affected. — Shake. Pickedness, pik'ed-nes, ».
State of being pointed at the end ; sharpness ; foppery ; sprnceness.— Obsolete
in the last two significations. Fer much pickedness is not manly. — Ben Jonson.
John Craig (F.G.S.), 1849
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The Plays and Poems of William Shakespeare: Two gentlemen of ...
9885 : " He kembeth him, he proineth him and piketh" And Shakspeare, in this
very play, uses the corresponding wordpruning for dressing, Act IV. Sc. III.: " or
spend a minute's time " In pruning me — ." The substantive pickedness is used by
...
William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Richard Farmer, 1821
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A New Variorum Edition of Shakespeare: Loues labour's lost. 1904
The substantive ' pickedness ' is used by Ben Jonson for nicety in dress : ' too
much pickedness is not manly.' [Tyrwhitt quotes only the last sentence, but the
whole passage so well illustrates ' pickedness ' in dress that it is here given ...
William Shakespeare, Horace Howard Furness, Modern Language Association of America, 1904
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