<OL TYPE="1"><LI>picking up seed<OL TYPE="a"><LI>of birds, esp. of the crow or daw that picks up grain in fields</OL><LI>metaph.<OL TYPE="a"><LI>lounging about the market place and picking up a substance by whatever may chance to fall from the loads of merchandise<LI>hence, beggarly, abject, vile, (a parasite)<LI>getting a living by flattery and bufferoonery<LI>an empty talker, babbler</OL></OL>