picare

1 picare [CL] 1 to smear with pitch. ~o, -as, i. pice aliquid linire Osb. Glouc. Deriv. 462. 2 (p ppl. as adj.): a (in gl.). b mixed with pitch, pitchy. c (of wine) pitch-flavoured, resinated. a pico ‥ unde ~atus Osb. Glouc. Deriv. 462.  b asseres ‥ cera ~ata [gl.: picture, poee, pyz] interius vel unguine lineantur Neckam Ut. 114.  c vinum ‥ rancidum, ~eatum, et vapidum P. Blois Ep. 14. 47C. 3 (fig.) smeared, tarred. legis periti, vel potius ~ati legibus, parum docti R. Niger MR 250; surrexit ordo legis peritorum, vel potius legis ~atorum Ib.; vidimus ~os legibus qui vel aliquam particulam legum audierant, ad patrocinia causarum ‥ currere Ib. 251; quidam scioli ~ati legibus, ‥ de jure minus instructi, equitatem juris Romani magnificabant Ib. 252.

2 picare [ME piken < AS pican] 1 to pierce with a sharp point (in quot. to break ground to erect a market stall); b (bird) to peck. aliquis veniens ad forum nostrum de R. cum rebus suis et frangendo vel pictando [? l. piccando] aliquam placeam in dicto foro, prior habebit inde redemptionem (Reg. Pri. Cokesford) Nomolexicon s. v. piccage.  b venerunt [pulli] excepto uno, qui invenit vermiculum et ~avit super ipsum ut comederet O. Cheriton Fab. 34; eligamus nobis milvum; ipse ~at, ipse percutit, ipse laniat. milvus ‥ rex constitutus ‥ devoravit unum pullum J. Sheppey Fab. 423. 2 to pick, pluck. 1323 in ij hominibus conductis ad fabas †pictandas [l. piccandas] per duos dies iiij d. (Glos) MinAc 854/7; in iij hominibus conductis ad fabas piccandas per duos dies vj d. Ib..

3 picare, -ari v. piscari