by morsels; to nibble. 1693, John Dryden, Third Satire of Persius: Why <span class="searchmatch">stand'st</span> thou picking? Is thy palate sore? To do anything fastidiously or carefully...
and craz’d, and broken, / Like an old mazer beaten on the ſtones: / And <span class="searchmatch">ſtand’ſt</span> thou now to ſaue our maimed men? / A plague vpon thee coward. 1706, [Roger]...