Definition of prick

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Prick (v. i.) To spur onward; to ride on horseback.

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Punction :: Punction (n.) A puncturing, or pricking; a puncture..
Pricker :: Pricker (n.) A small marline spike having generally a wooden handle, -- used in sailmaking..
Prick :: Prick (v.) A mark made by a pointed instrument; a puncture; a point.
Tripmadam :: Tripmadam (n.) Same as Prickmadam.
Prick :: Prick (n.) To make sharp; to erect into a point; to raise, as something pointed; -- said especially of the ears of an animal, as a horse or dog; and usually followed by up; -- hence, to prick up the ears, to listen sharply; to have the attention and interest strongly engaged..
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.
Durion :: Durion (n.) The fruit of the durio. It is oval or globular, and eight or ten inches long. It has a hard prickly rind, containing a soft, cream-colored pulp, of a most delicious flavor and a very offensive odor. The seeds are roasted and eaten like chestnuts..
Opuntia :: Opuntia (n.) A genus of cactaceous plants; the prickly pear, or Indian fig..
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.
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..
Aculeate :: Aculeate (a.) Having prickles, or sharp points; beset with prickles..
Prick :: Prick (n.) To mark or denote by a puncture; to designate by pricking; to choose; to mark; -- sometimes with off.
Prick :: Prick (v.) A mathematical point; -- regularly used in old English translations of Euclid.
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..
Sticktail :: Stick-seed (n.) A plant (Echinospermum Lappula) of the Borage family, with small blue flowers and prickly nutlets..
Progue :: Progue (v. t. ) To prick; to goad.
Tear-thumb :: Tear-thumb (n.) A name given to several species of plants of the genus Polygonum, having angular stems beset with minute reflexed prickles..
Urchin :: Urchin (a.) Rough; pricking; piercing.
Prickle :: Prickle (n.) A sieve of filberts, -- about fifty pounds..
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