picrate.html - n.
a very bitter yellow compound used in dyeing and surgery and in explosives.

picrate n. [Gk pikros bitter]

picrate.html - See: BONE TO PICK or CROW TO PICK.

picrate.html - {v. phr.} To criticize or find fault with something, such as a speech, a statement, a theory, etc. * /It is easier to pick holes in someone else's argument than to make a good one yourself./

picrate.html - See: BONE TO PICK.

picrate.html - See: PICK A QUARREL.

picrate.html - {v. phr.} To steal by removing from the pocket of another. * /While in the train, somebody picked his pocket and took the last dollar he had./