Definition of prick

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

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Aculeate :: Aculeate (a.) Having a sting; covered with prickles; sharp like a prickle.
Prickle :: Prickle (n.) A sieve of filberts, -- about fifty pounds..
Thrill :: Thrill (v. t.) Hence, to affect, as if by something that pierces or pricks; to cause to have a shivering, throbbing, tingling, or exquisite sensation; to pierce; to penetrate..
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.
Pricker :: Pricker (n.) One who spurs forward; a light horseman.
Satinwood :: Satinwood (n.) The hard, lemon-colored, fragrant wood of an East Indian tree (Chloroxylon Swietenia). It takes a lustrous finish, and is used in cabinetwork. The name is also given to the wood of a species of prickly ash (Xanthoxylum Caribaeum) growing in Florida and the West Indies..
Tulip-eared :: Tulip-eared (a.) Having erect, pointed ears; prick-eared; -- said of certain dogs..
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..
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 (v.) A mathematical point; -- regularly used in old English translations of Euclid.
Pricking :: Pricking (n.) Same as Nicking.
Prighte :: Prighte () imp. of Prick.
Acicula :: Acicula (n.) One of the needlelike or bristlelike spines or prickles of some animals and plants; also, a needlelike crystal..
Pricking :: Pricking (n.) Dressing one's self for show; prinking.
Compunction :: Compunction (n.) A pricking; stimulation.
Euryale :: Euryale (n.) A genus of water lilies, growing in India and China. The only species (E. ferox) is very prickly on the peduncles and calyx. The rootstocks and seeds are used as food..
Prick :: Prick (v.) A point or mark on the dial, noting the hour..
Prickmadam :: Prickmadam (n.) A name given to several species of stonecrop, used as ingredients of vermifuge medicines. See Stonecrop..
Prickle :: Prickle (n.) A kind of willow basket; -- a term still used in some branches of trade.
Pricklefish :: Pricklefish (n.) The stickleback.
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