Definition of prick

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

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Pricking :: Pricking (n.) Same as Nicking.
Acantha :: Acantha (n.) A prickle.
Prick :: Prick (v. i.) To spur onward; to ride on horseback.
Aculeiform :: Aculeiform (a.) Like a prickle.
Stabbingly :: Stabber (n.) A small marline spike; a pricker.
Prick :: Prick (n.) To make sharp; to erect into a point; to raise, as something pointed; -- said especially of the ears of an animal, as a horse or dog; and usually followed by up; -- hence, to prick up the ears, to listen sharply; to have the attention and interest strongly engaged..
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..
Prickmadam :: Prickmadam (n.) A name given to several species of stonecrop, used as ingredients of vermifuge medicines. See Stonecrop..
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.
Prickly :: Prickly (a.) Full of sharp points or prickles; armed or covered with prickles; as, a prickly shrub..
Thorn :: Thorn (n.) Fig.: That which pricks or annoys as a thorn; anything troublesome; trouble; care.
Prog :: Prog (v. i.) To prick; to goad; to progue.
Extrafoliaceous :: Extrafoliaceous (a.) Away from the leaves, or inserted in a different place from them; as, extrafoliaceous prickles..
Prickwood :: Prickwood (n.) A shrub (Euonymus Europaeus); -- so named from the use of its wood for goads, skewers, and shoe pegs. Called also spindle tree..
Prickpunch :: Prickpunch (n.) A pointed steel punch, to prick a mark on metal..
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..
Prick :: Prick (n.) To run a middle seam through, as the cloth of a sail..
Pricking :: Pricking (n.) The act of piercing or puncturing with a sharp point.
Prickle :: Prickle (v. t.) To prick slightly, as with prickles, or fine, sharp points..
Pricklefish :: Pricklefish (n.) The stickleback.
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