picked

adjective

Pronunciation: /pɪkt/

Having a pick, or a particular number/type of pick (in any sense of the word)
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.”
Played by picking the strings
Having a pike or spine on the back.
“the picked dogfish”
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:”
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.”