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Stickler :: Stickleback (v. t.) Any one of numerous species of small fishes of the genus Gasterosteus and allied genera. The back is armed with two or more sharp spines. They inhabit both salt and brackish water, and construct curious nests. Called also sticklebag, sharpling, and prickleback..

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 (v.) That which pricks, penetrates, or punctures; a sharp and slender thing; a pointed instrument; a goad; a spur, etc.; a point; a skewer..

Prickling :: Prickling (a.) Prickly.

Echinated :: Echinated (a.) Set with prickles; prickly, like a hedgehog; bristled; as, an echinated pericarp..

Prod :: Prod (v. t.) To thrust some pointed instrument into; to prick with something sharp; as, to prod a soldier with a bayonet; to prod oxen; hence, to goad, to incite, to worry; as, to prod a student..

Cactaceous :: Cactaceous (a.) Belonging to, or like, the family of plants of which the prickly pear is a common example..

Point :: Point (n.) The mark made by the end of a sharp, piercing instrument, as a needle; a prick..

Prick :: Prick (v. i.) To become sharp or acid; to turn sour, as wine..

Acicula :: Acicula (n.) One of the needlelike or bristlelike spines or prickles of some animals and plants; also, a needlelike crystal..

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.

Qualm :: Qualm (n.) A prick or scruple of conscience; uneasiness of conscience; compunction.

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

Aculeated :: Aculeated (a.) Having a sharp point; armed with prickles; prickly; aculeate.

Tripmadam :: Tripmadam (n.) Same as Prickmadam.

Pricker :: Pricker (n.) One who, or that which, pricks; a pointed instrument; a sharp point; a prickle..

Burr :: Burr (n.) A prickly seed vessel. See Bur, 1..

Prickle :: Prickle (n.) A sieve of filberts, -- about fifty pounds..

Prickliness :: Prickliness (n.) The quality of being prickly, or of having many prickles..

Pimpillo :: Pimpillo (n.) A West Indian name for the prickly pear (Opuntia); -- called also pimploes.

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