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Definition of prick

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Prick (n.) To pierce slightly with a sharp-pointed instrument or substance; to make a puncture in, or to make by puncturing; to drive a fine point into; as, to prick one with a pin, needle, etc.; to prick a card; to prick holes in paper..

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Aculeus :: Aculeus (n.) A prickle growing on the bark, as in some brambles and roses..

Thorn :: Thorn (v. t.) To prick, as with a thorn..

Satinwood :: Satinwood (n.) The hard, lemon-colored, fragrant wood of an East Indian tree (Chloroxylon Swietenia). It takes a lustrous finish, and is used in cabinetwork. The name is also given to the wood of a species of prickly ash (Xanthoxylum Caribaeum) growing in Florida and the West Indies..

Qualm :: Qualm (n.) A prick or scruple of conscience; uneasiness of conscience; compunction.

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

Punction :: Punction (n.) A puncturing, or pricking; a puncture..

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

Pricker :: Pricker (n.) One who spurs forward; a light horseman.

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.

Teasel :: Teasel (n.) A plant of the genus Dipsacus, of which one species (D. fullonum) bears a large flower head covered with stiff, prickly, hooked bracts. This flower head, when dried, is used for raising a nap on woolen cloth..

Weapon :: Weapon (n.) A thorn, prickle, or sting with which many plants are furnished..

Prick :: Prick (v.) That which pricks, penetrates, or punctures; a sharp and slender thing; a pointed instrument; a goad; a spur, etc.; a point; a skewer..

Pricklefish :: Pricklefish (n.) The stickleback.

Pick :: Pick (v.) To peck at, as a bird with its beak; to strike at with anything pointed; to act upon with a pointed instrument; to pierce; to prick, as with a pin..

Prick :: Prick (n.) To run a middle seam through, as the cloth of a sail..

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

Burr :: Burr (n.) Any rough or prickly envelope of the seeds of plants, whether a pericarp, a persistent calyx, or an involucre, as of the chestnut and burdock. Also, any weed which bears burs..

Prick :: Prick (v. i.) To become sharp or acid; to turn sour, as wine..

Xanthoxylum :: Xanthoxylum (n.) A genus of prickly shrubs or small trees, the bark and rots of which are of a deep yellow color; prickly ash..

Smart :: Smart (v. i.) Quick, pungent, lively pain; a pricking local pain, as the pain from puncture by nettles..