Definition of prick

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Prick (v.) The act of pricking, or the sensation of being pricked; a sharp, stinging pain; figuratively, remorse..

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Three-coat :: Three-coat (a.) Having or consisting of three coats; -- applied to plastering which consists of pricking-up, floating, and a finishing coat; or, as called in the United States, a scratch coat, browning, and finishing coat..
Acanthaceous :: Acanthaceous (a.) Armed with prickles, as a plant..
Poinciana :: Poinciana (n.) A prickly tropical shrub (Caesalpinia, formerly Poinciana, pulcherrima), with bipinnate leaves, and racemes of showy orange-red flowers with long crimson filaments..
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..
Cactus :: Cactus (n.) Any plant of the order Cactacae, as the prickly pear and the night-blooming cereus. See Cereus. They usually have leafless stems and branches, often beset with clustered thorns, and are mostly natives of the warmer parts of America..
Pricking :: Pricking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Pric.
Thorn :: Thorn (v. t.) To prick, as with a thorn..
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 (v. i.) To be punctured; to suffer or feel a sharp pain, as by puncture; as, a sore finger pricks..
Thorn :: Thorn (n.) Fig.: That which pricks or annoys as a thorn; anything troublesome; trouble; care.
Prick :: Prick (n.) To nick.
Aculeolate :: Aculeolate (a.) Having small prickles or sharp points.
Chestnut :: Chestnut (n.) The edible nut of a forest tree (Castanea vesca) of Europe and America. Commonly two or more of the nuts grow in a prickly bur.
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..
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.
Prick :: Prick (n.) To drive a nail into (a horse's foot), so as to cause lameness..
Prod :: Prod (n.) A pointed instrument for pricking or puncturing, as a goad, an awl, a skewer, etc..
Thistly :: Thistly (a.) Fig.: Resembling a thistle or thistles; sharp; pricking.
Prickshaft :: Prickshaft (n.) An arrow.
Prick :: Prick (v. i.) To spur onward; to ride on horseback.
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