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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006) |
prick
n 1: insulting terms of address for people who are stupid or
irritating or ridiculous [syn: asshole, bastard,
cocksucker, dickhead, shit, mother fucker,
motherfucker, prick, whoreson, son of a bitch,
SOB]
2: a depression scratched or carved into a surface [syn:
incision, scratch, prick, slit, dent]
3: obscene terms for penis [syn: cock, prick, dick,
shaft, pecker, peter, tool, putz]
4: the act of puncturing with a small point; "he gave the
balloon a small prick" [syn: prick, pricking]
v 1: make a small hole into, as with a needle or a thorn; "The
nurse pricked my finger to get a small blood sample" [syn:
prickle, prick]
2: cause a stinging pain; "The needle pricked his skin" [syn:
prick, sting, twinge]
3: raise; "The dog pricked up his ears" [syn: prick up,
prick, cock up]
4: stab or urge on as if with a pointed stick [syn: goad,
prick]
5: cause a prickling sensation [syn: prickle, prick]
6: to cause a sharp emotional pain; "The thought of her
unhappiness pricked his conscience"
7: deliver a sting to; "A bee stung my arm yesterday" [syn:
sting, bite, prick]
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2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
Prick \Prick\, n. [AS. prica, pricca, pricu; akin to LG. prick,
pricke, D. prik, Dan. prik, prikke, Sw. prick. Cf. Prick,
v.]
1. That which pricks, penetrates, or punctures; a sharp and
slender thing; a pointed instrument; a goad; a spur, etc.;
a point; a skewer.
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Pins, wooden pricks, nails, sprigs of rosemary.
--Shak.
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It is hard for thee to kick against the pricks.
--Acts ix. 5.
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2. The act of pricking, or the sensation of being pricked; a
sharp, stinging pain; figuratively, remorse. "The pricks
of conscience." --A. Tucker.
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3. A mark made by a pointed instrument; a puncture; a point.
Hence:
(a) A point or mark on the dial, noting the hour. [Obs.]
"The prick of noon." --Shak.
(b) The point on a target at which an archer aims; the
mark; the pin. "They that shooten nearest the prick."
--Spenser.
(c) A mark denoting degree; degree; pitch. [Obs.] "To
prick of highest praise forth to advance." --Spenser.
(d) A mathematical point; -- regularly used in old English
translations of Euclid.
(e) The footprint of a hare. [Obs.]
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4. (Naut.) A small roll; as, a prick of spun yarn; a prick of
tobacco.
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
Prick \Prick\, v. i.
1. To be punctured; to suffer or feel a sharp pain, as by
puncture; as, a sore finger pricks.
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2. To spur onward; to ride on horseback. --Milton.
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A gentle knight was pricking on the plain.
--Spenser.
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3. To become sharp or acid; to turn sour, as wine.
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4. To aim at a point or mark. --Hawkins.
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4. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
Prick \Prick\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Pricked; p. pr. & vb. n.
Pricking.] [AS. prician; akin to LG. pricken, D. prikken,
Dan. prikke, Sw. pricka. See Prick, n., and cf. Prink,
Prig.]
1. 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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2. To fix by the point; to attach or hang by puncturing; as,
to prick a knife into a board. --Sir I. Newton.
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The cooks prick it [a slice] on a prong of iron.
--Sandys.
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3. To mark or denote by a puncture; to designate by pricking;
to choose; to mark; -- sometimes with off.
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Some who are pricked for sheriffs. --Bacon.
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Let the soldiers for duty be carefully pricked off.
--Sir W.
Scott.
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Those many, then, shall die: their names are
pricked. --Shak.
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4. 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. --Cowper.
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5. To ride or guide with spurs; to spur; to goad; to incite;
to urge on; -- sometimes with on, or off.
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Who pricketh his blind horse over the fallows.
--Chaucer.
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The season pricketh every gentle heart. --Chaucer.
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My duty pricks me on to utter that. --Shak.
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6. To affect with sharp pain; to sting, as with remorse. "I
was pricked with some reproof." --Tennyson.
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Now when they heard this, they were pricked in their
heart. --Acts ii. 37.
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7. 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. "The courser
. . . pricks up his ears." --Dryden.
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8. To render acid or pungent. [Obs.] --Hudibras.
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9. To dress; to prink; -- usually with up. [Obs.]
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10. (Naut)
(a) To run a middle seam through, as the cloth of a sail.
(b) To trace on a chart, as a ship's course.
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11. (Far.)
(a) To drive a nail into (a horse's foot), so as to cause
lameness.
(b) To nick.
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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 |
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Common Misspellings > |
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