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Prick :: Prick (v. i.) To be punctured; to suffer or feel a sharp pain, as by puncture; as, a sore finger pricks..

Bedegar :: Bedegar (n.) A gall produced on rosebushes, esp. on the sweetbrier or eglantine, by a puncture from the ovipositor of a gallfly (Rhodites rosae). It was once supposed to have medicinal properties..

Poriform :: Poriform (a.) Resembling a pore, or small puncture..

Bipunctate :: Bipunctate (a.) Having two punctures, or spots..

Mosquito :: Mosquito (n.) Any one of various species of gnats of the genus Culex and allied genera. The females have a proboscis containing, within the sheathlike labium, six fine, sharp, needlelike organs with which they puncture the skin of man and animals to suck the blood. These bites, when numerous, cause, in many persons, considerable irritation and swelling, with some pain. The larvae and pupae, called wigglers, are aquatic..

Puncturation :: Puncturation (n.) The act or process of puncturing. See Acupuncture.

Prick :: Prick (v.) A mark made by a pointed instrument; a puncture; a point.

Punctured :: Punctured (imp. & p. p.) of Punctur.

Cyclostyle :: Cyclostyle (n.) A contrivance for producing manifold copies of writing or drawing. The writing or drawing is done with a style carrying a small wheel at the end which makes minute punctures in the paper, thus converting it into a stencil. Copies are transferred with an inked roller..

Prick :: Prick (n.) To mark or denote by a puncture; to designate by pricking; to choose; to mark; -- sometimes with off.

Aquapuncture :: Aquapuncture (n.) The introduction of water subcutaneously for the relief of pain.

Prick :: Prick (n.) To mark the outline of by puncturing; to trace or form by pricking; to mark by punctured dots; as, to prick a pattern for embroidery; to prick the notes of a musical composition..

Prick :: 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..

Vampire :: Vampire (n.) Either one of two or more species of South American blood-sucking bats belonging to the genera Desmodus and Diphylla. These bats are destitute of molar teeth, but have strong, sharp cutting incisors with which they make punctured wounds from which they suck the blood of horses, cattle, and other animals, as well as man, chiefly during sleep. They have a caecal appendage to the stomach, in which the blood with which they gorge themselves is stored..

Acupuncture :: Acupuncture (n.) The insertion of needles into the living tissues for remedial purposes.

Puncture :: Puncture (v. t.) To pierce with a small, pointed instrument, or the like; to prick; to make a puncture in; as, to puncture the skin..

Punctured :: Punctured (a.) Produced by puncture; having the characteristics of a puncture; as, a punctured wound..

Electro-puncturing :: Electro-puncturing (n.) See Electropuncture.

Acupuncturation :: Acupuncturation (n.) See Acupuncture.

Puncture :: Puncture (n.) The act of puncturing; perforating with something pointed.

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