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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.

Pique :: Pique (v. t.) To excite to action by causing resentment or jealousy; to stimulate; to prick; as, to pique ambition, or curiosity..

Acantha :: Acantha (n.) A prickle.

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

Prickpunch :: Prickpunch (n.) A pointed steel punch, to prick a mark on metal..

Xanthoxylene :: Xanthoxylene (n.) A liquid hydrocarbon of the terpene series extracted from the seeds of a Japanese prickly ash (Xanthoxylum pipertium) as an aromatic oil.

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

Acanthus :: Acanthus (n.) A genus of herbaceous prickly plants, found in the south of Europe, Asia Minor, and India; bear's-breech..

Teasel :: Teasel (n.) A plant of the genus Dipsacus, of which one species (D. fullonum) bears a large flower head covered with stiff, prickly, hooked bracts. This flower head, when dried, is used for raising a nap on woolen cloth..

Pricksong :: Pricksong (v. t.) Music written, or noted, with dots or points; -- so called from the points or dots with which it is noted down..

Prick :: Prick (v.) A mark made by a pointed instrument; a puncture; a point.

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

Burr :: Burr (n.) Any rough or prickly envelope of the seeds of plants, whether a pericarp, a persistent calyx, or an involucre, as of the chestnut and burdock. Also, any weed which bears burs..

Prick :: Prick (n.) To affect with sharp pain; to sting, as with remorse..

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

Prickle :: Prickle (n.) A little prick; a small, sharp point; a fine, sharp process or projection, as from the skin of an animal, the bark of a plant, etc.; a spine..

Aculeate :: Aculeate (a.) Having a sting; covered with prickles; sharp like a prickle.

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

Aculeolate :: Aculeolate (a.) Having small prickles or sharp points.

Prickle :: Prickle (v. t.) To prick slightly, as with prickles, or fine, sharp points..

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