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Urchin :: Urchin (a.) Rough; pricking; piercing.

Pricking :: Pricking (n.) The driving of a nail into a horse's foot so as to produce lameness.

Retract :: Retract (n.) The pricking of a horse's foot in nailing on a shoe.

Pricking :: Pricking (n.) The act of piercing or puncturing with a sharp point.

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.

Pungent :: Pungent (v. t.) Causing a sharp sensation, as of the taste, smell, or feelings; pricking; biting; acrid; as, a pungent spice..

Smart :: Smart (v. i.) Causing a smart; pungent; pricking; as, a smart stroke or taste..

Pricking :: Pricking (n.) A sensation of being pricked.

Thistly :: Thistly (a.) Fig.: Resembling a thistle or thistles; sharp; pricking.

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..

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

Compunction :: Compunction (n.) A pricking; stimulation.

Acupuncture :: Acupuncture (n.) Pricking with a needle; a needle prick.

Prod :: Prod (n.) A pointed instrument for pricking or puncturing, as a goad, an awl, a skewer, etc..

Pricking :: Pricking (n.) Same as Nicking.

Scratch Coat :: Scratch coat () The first coat in plastering; -- called also scratchwork. See Pricking-up.

Smart :: Smart (v. i.) Quick, pungent, lively pain; a pricking local pain, as the pain from puncture by nettles..

Tattoo :: Tattoo (v. t.) To color, as the flesh, by pricking in coloring matter, so as to form marks or figures which can not be washed out..

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..

Punction :: Punction (n.) A puncturing, or pricking; a puncture..

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