verb

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To pierce or puncture slightly.

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John hardly felt the needle prick his arm when the adept nurse drew blood.

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To form by piercing or puncturing.

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to prick a pattern for embroidery

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To mark or denote by a puncture; to designate by pricking; to choose; to mark.

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To mark the surface of (something) with pricks or dots; especially, to trace a ship’s course on (a chart).

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To run a middle seam through the cloth of a sail.

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To fix by the point; to attach or hang by puncturing.

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to prick a knife into a board

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To be punctured; to suffer or feel a sharp pain, as by puncture.

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A sore finger pricks.

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To make or become sharp; to erect into a point; to raise, as something pointed; said especially of the ears of an animal, such as a horse or dog; and usually followed by up.

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The dog's ears pricked up at the sound of a whistle.

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Usually in the form prick out: to plant (seeds or seedlings) in holes made in soil at regular intervals.

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To incite, stimulate, goad.

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To urge one's horse on; to ride quickly.

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To affect with sharp pain; to sting, as with remorse.

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To make acidic or pungent.

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To become sharp or acid; to turn sour, as wine.

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To aim at a point or mark.

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Usually as prick up: to dress or adorn; to prink.

noun

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The act of piercing or puncturing with a sharp point.

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A sensation that pricks.

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the prickings of conscience

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The driving of a nail into a horse's foot so as to produce lameness.

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A nicking.

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The mark or trace left by a hare's foot; a prick.

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The act of tracing a hare by its footmarks.

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Dressing oneself for show; prinking.

Examples of pricking in a Sentence

The borzois jumped up, jerking the rings of the leashes and pricking their ears.

The pricking out of seedlings in pots in the propagating pit is effected in a similar way.

This reminds me that Dr. Hale used to give a personal touch to his letters to me by pricking his signature in braille.

The kinds of stimuli that cause a pain response on the skin include pricking, cutting, crushing, burning, and freezing.

The usual ornament is a conventional flower pattern, pricked in from paper and dusted along the pricking.

Sow the seed in April in a hot-bed, pricking out the seedlings in a hot-bed, and plant about the end of May.

If this is done the soil will be fit for working in spring, and a pricking over with the fork will reduce it to a fine tilth, and will admit of the bulbs being planted promptly.

Skin tests are performed by administering a tiny dose of the suspected allergen by pricking, scratching, puncturing, or injecting the skin.

The test is performed by pricking the surface of the skin with a thin needle containing a small amount of a suspected allergen.

Monitoring your blood glucose requires pricking your finger one or more times each day and testing the tiny drop of blood using a special machine.

Thus shallow square or oblong wooden boxes, made of light, inexpensive wood, are very useful for seedsowing, for pricking out seedlings, or for planting cuttings.

I gave her my braille slate to play with, thinking that the mechanical pricking of holes in the paper would amuse her and rest her mind.

Prior to 1691, however, Dr John Clayton, dean of Kildare, filled bladders with inflammable gas obtained by the distillation of coal, and showed that on pricking the bladders and applying a light to the escaping gas it burnt with a luminous flame, and in 1726 Stephen Hales published the fact that by the distillation of 158 grains of Newcastle coal, 180 cub.

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