Definition of prick

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Prick (v.) A mathematical point; -- regularly used in old English translations of Euclid.

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Tingle :: Tingle (v. i.) To have, or to cause, a sharp, thrilling sensation, or a slight pricking sensation..
Aculeate :: Aculeate (a.) Having a sting; covered with prickles; sharp like a prickle.
Pricker :: Pricker (n.) A priming wire; a priming needle, -- used in blasting and gunnery..
Tripmadam :: Tripmadam (n.) Same as Prickmadam.
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..
Thistle :: Thistle (n.) Any one of several prickly composite plants, especially those of the genera Cnicus, Craduus, and Onopordon. The name is often also applied to other prickly plants..
Pricking :: Pricking (n.) The mark or trace left by a hare's foot; a prick; also, the act of tracing a hare by its footmarks..
Prickliness :: Prickliness (n.) The quality of being prickly, or of having many prickles..
Sticktail :: Stick-seed (n.) A plant (Echinospermum Lappula) of the Borage family, with small blue flowers and prickly nutlets..
Compunction :: Compunction (n.) A pricking; stimulation.
Thistly :: Thistly (a.) Fig.: Resembling a thistle or thistles; sharp; pricking.
Pricker :: Pricker (n.) A small marline spike having generally a wooden handle, -- used in sailmaking..
Retract :: Retract (n.) The pricking of a horse's foot in nailing on a shoe.
Smilax :: Smilax (n.) A genus of perennial climbing plants, usually with a prickly woody stem; green brier, or cat brier. The rootstocks of certain species are the source of the medicine called sarsaparilla..
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..
Carline Thistle :: Carline thistle () A prickly plant of the genus Carlina (C. vulgaris), found in Europe and Asia..
Pricked :: Pricked (imp. & p. p.) of Pric.
Tulip-eared :: Tulip-eared (a.) Having erect, pointed ears; prick-eared; -- said of certain dogs..
Hedgehog :: Hedgehog (n.) A small European insectivore (Erinaceus Europaeus), and other allied species of Asia and Africa, having the hair on the upper part of its body mixed with prickles or spines. It is able to roll itself into a ball so as to present the spines outwardly in every direction. It is nocturnal in its habits, feeding chiefly upon insects..
Prickle :: Prickle (n.) A kind of willow basket; -- a term still used in some branches of trade.
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