1) picking up seed
    1a) of birds, esp. of the crow or daw that picks up grain in fields
 2) metaph.
    2a) lounging about the market place and picking up a substance by
        whatever may chance to fall from the loads of merchandise
    2b) hence, beggarly, abject, vile, (a parasite)
    2c) getting a living by flattery and bufferoonery
    2d) an empty talker, babbler