(often followed by `of) a large number or amount or extent; a batch of letters; a deal of trouble; a lot of money; he made a mint on the stock market; see the rest of the winners in our huge passel of photos; it must have cost plenty; a slew of journalists; a wad of money

[ Syn: batch , deal , flock , good deal , great deal , hatful , heap , lot , mass , mess , mickle , mint , mountain , muckle , passel , pile , plenty , pot , quite a little , raft , sight , slew , spate , stack , tidy sum , wad ]

a British imperial capacity measure (liquid or dry) equal to 2 gallons

a United States dry measure equal to 8 quarts or 537.605 cubic inches

hit lightly with a picking motion

[ Syn: pick , beak ]

eat by pecking at, like a bird

[ Syn: pick up ]

kiss lightly

[ Syn: smack ]

eat like a bird; The anorexic girl just picks at her food

[ Syn: pick at , peck at ]

bother persistently with trivial complaints; She nags her husband all day long

[ Syn: nag , hen-peck ]