To select.

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a. 1390.  

        Bot rathere, if it mihte hir like,
The best wordes wolde I pike.
Gower, ‘Confessio Amantis,’ i. 296. (N.E.D.)    

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1852.  If the whole Whig party came forward to attack him, they would have picked the meanest man in the house to do it.—Mr. Stanly of North Carolina, House of Repr., Feb. 11: Congressional Globe, p. 535.

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1909.  Cannon picks Vreeland to be Chairman of Banking and Currency Committee.—N.Y. Evening Post, July 6.

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1910.  Doubt in Pennsylvania. Neither side has picked its candidate for Governor.—Id., May 9.

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1911.  A champion polo player returning from abroad is asked whom he picks for the Republican nomination in 1912.—Id., Oct. 23.

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