pique

1. (uncountable) Enmity, ill feeling; (countable) a feeling of animosity or a dispute.Examples: "Men take up piques and diſpleaſures at others, and then every opinion of the diſliked perſon muſt partake of his fate, and be engaged in the quarrel: […]"; "[H]e ſhew'd himself, out of ſome little pique, the moſt bitter enemy againſt the K[ing, i.e., Charles I of England] in all the Houſe [of Parliament], as well in action as ſpeech; […]"; "This dog and man at firſt were friends; / But when a pique began, / The dog, to gain his private ends, / Went mad and bit the man."uncountable

2. (uncountable) Irritation or resentment awakened by a social injury or slight; offence, especially taken in an emotional sense with little consideration or thought; (countable) especially in fit of pique: a transient feeling of wounded pride.Examples: "Tuſh! tuſh! you take the grave peake uppon you too much: who would think you could ſo eaſily ſhake off your olde friendes?"; "Pray, my Lord, take no picque at it: 'tis not given to all men to be confident: […]"; ""'Tis because you are an indifferent person," said Lucy, with some pique, and laying a particular stress on those words, "that your judgment must justly have such weight with me.["]"uncountable

3. (countable, obsolete) In pique of honour: a matter, a point.Examples: "Add long preſcription of eſtabliſh'd laws, / And picque of honour to maintain a cauſe, / And ſhame of change, and fear of future ill, / And Zeal, the blind conductor of the will; […]"countableobsolete

1. (card games) In piquet, the right of the elder hand to count thirty in hand, or to play before the adversary counts one.Examples: "Flip[panta]. Hark thee, Braſs, the Game's in our hands, if we can but play the Cards. / Br[ass]. Pique and Repique, you Jade you: If the Wives will fall into a good Intelligence."

1. (ambitransitive, card games, archaic or obsolete) To score a pique against (someone).Examples: "My villainous old luck ſtill follovvs me in gaming, I never throvv the Dice out of my hand, but my Gold goes after 'em: if I go to Picquet, though it be but vvith a Novice in't, he vvill picque and repicque, and Capot me tvventy times together: […]"; "He seemed perfectly to understand the beautiful game at which he played, but preferred, as it were on principle, the risking bold and precarious strokes to the ordinary rules of play, and neglecting the minor and better balanced chances of the game; he hazarded every thing for the chance of piqueing, repiqueing, or capotting his adversary."ambitransitivearchaicobsolete

1. (obsolete) A chigger, chigoe, or jigger (Tunga penetrans), a species of tropical flea.obsolete

1. (sewing) Alternative form of piqué (“a kind of corded or ribbed fabric made from cotton, rayon, or silk”).Examples: "Pique and linen also accented several coats and oftentimes were both detachable and formed an overcollar covering a collar made from the coat fabric."alt-ofalternativecountableuncountable