Pricker :: Pricker (n.) A priming wire; a priming needle, -- used in blasting and gunnery..

Pricker :: Pricker (n.) A small marline spike having generally a wooden handle, -- used in sailmaking..

Pricket :: Pricket (n.) A buck in his second year. See Note under 3d Buck.

Pricking :: Pricking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Pric.

Pricking :: Pricking (n.) The act of piercing or puncturing with a sharp point.

Pricking :: Pricking (n.) The driving of a nail into a horse's foot so as to produce lameness.

Pricking :: Pricking (n.) Same as Nicking.

Pricking :: Pricking (n.) A sensation of being pricked.

Pricking :: Pricking (n.) The mark or trace left by a hare's foot; a prick; also, the act of tracing a hare by its footmarks..

Pricking :: Pricking (n.) Dressing one's self for show; prinking.

Pricking-up :: Pricking-up (n.) The first coating of plaster in work of three coats upon laths. Its surface is scratched once to form a better key for the next coat. In the United States called scratch coat.

Prickle :: Prickle (n.) A little prick; a small, sharp point; a fine, sharp process or projection, as from the skin of an animal, the bark of a plant, etc.; a spine..

Prickle :: Prickle (n.) A kind of willow basket; -- a term still used in some branches of trade.

Prickle :: Prickle (n.) A sieve of filberts, -- about fifty pounds..

Prickle :: Prickle (v. t.) To prick slightly, as with prickles, or fine, sharp points..

Prickleback :: Prickleback (n.) Alt. of Pricklefis.

Pricklefish :: Pricklefish (n.) The stickleback.

Prickliness :: Prickliness (n.) The quality of being prickly, or of having many prickles..

Prickling :: Prickling (a.) Prickly.

Pricklouse :: Pricklouse (n.) A tailor; -- so called in contempt.

Prickly :: Prickly (a.) Full of sharp points or prickles; armed or covered with prickles; as, a prickly shrub..

Prickmadam :: Prickmadam (n.) A name given to several species of stonecrop, used as ingredients of vermifuge medicines. See Stonecrop..

Prickpunch :: Prickpunch (n.) A pointed steel punch, to prick a mark on metal..

Prickshaft :: Prickshaft (n.) An arrow.

Pricksong :: Pricksong (v. t.) Music written, or noted, with dots or points; -- so called from the points or dots with which it is noted down..

Prickwood :: Prickwood (n.) A shrub (Euonymus Europaeus); -- so named from the use of its wood for goads, skewers, and shoe pegs. Called also spindle tree..

Pricky :: Pricky (a.) Stiff and sharp; prickly.

Uppricked :: Uppricked (a.) Upraised; erect; -- said of the ears of an animal.

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