Prick — Defs

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

1.
That which pricks, penetrates, or punctures; a sharp and slender thing; a pointed instrument; a goad; a spur, etc.; a point; a skewer.
“Pins, wooden pricks, nails, sprigs of rosemary.” — Shak.

“It is hard for thee to kick against the pricks.” — Acts ix. 5.
2.
The act of pricking, or the sensation of being pricked; a sharp, stinging pain; figuratively, remorse.
3.
A mark made by a pointed instrument; a puncture; a point.[Obs.]
4.
A small roll; as, a prick of spun yarn; a prick of tobacco.(Naut.)

02 v. t. To pierce slightly with a sharp-pointed instrument or substance; to make a puncture in, or to make by puncturing; to drive a fine point int…

imp. & p. p. Pricked; p. pr. & vb. n. Pricking

1.
To pierce slightly with a sharp-pointed instrument or substance; to make a puncture in, or to make by puncturing; to drive a fine point into; as, to prick one with a pin, needle, etc.; to prick a card; to prick holes in paper.
2.
To fix by the point; to attach or hang by puncturing; as, to prick a knife into a board.
“The cooks prick it [a slice] on a prong of iron.” — Sandys.
3.
To mark or denote by a puncture; to designate by pricking; to choose; to mark; -- sometimes with off.
“Some who are pricked for sheriffs.” — Bacon.

“Let the soldiers for duty be carefully pricked off.” — Sir W. Scott.

“Those many, then, shall die: their names are pricked.” — Shak.
4.
To mark the outline of by puncturing; to trace or form by pricking; to mark by punctured dots; as, to prick a pattern for embroidery; to prick the notes of a musical composition.
5.
To ride or guide with spurs; to spur; to goad; to incite; to urge on; -- sometimes with on, or off.
“Who pricketh his blind horse over the fallows.” — Chaucer.

“The season pricketh every gentle heart.” — Chaucer.

“My duty pricks me on to utter that.” — Shak.
6.
To affect with sharp pain; to sting, as with remorse.
“Now when they heard this, they were pricked in their heart.” — Acts ii. 37.
7.
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.
8.
To render acid or pungent.[Obs.]
9.
To dress; to prink; -- usually with up.[Obs.]
10.
To run a middle seam through, as the cloth of a sail.(Naut)
11.
To drive a nail into (a horse's foot), so as to cause lameness.(Far.)

03 v. i. To be punctured; to suffer or feel a sharp pain, as by puncture; as, a sore finger pricks.

1.
To be punctured; to suffer or feel a sharp pain, as by puncture; as, a sore finger pricks.
2.
To spur onward; to ride on horseback.
“A gentle knight was pricking on the plain.” — Spenser.
3.
To become sharp or acid; to turn sour, as wine.
4.
To aim at a point or mark.