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Prick [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. A slender pointed instrument or substance, which is hard enough to pierce the skin; a goad; a spur.

2. It is hard for thee to kick against the pricks. Acts 9:5 .

3. Sharp stinging pain; remorse.

4. A spot or mark at which archers aim.

5. A point; a fixed place.

6. A puncture or place entered by a point.

7. The print of a hare on the ground.

8. In seamen's language, a small roll; as a prick of spun yarn; a prick of tobacco.

Prick [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. To become acid; as, cider pricks in the rays of the sun.

2. To dress one's self for show.

3. To come upon the spur; to shoot along.

4. Before each van

5. PRICK forth the airy knights.

6. To aim at a point, mark or place.

Prick [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. To pierce with a sharp pointed instrument or substance; as, to prick one with a pin, a needle, a thorn or the like.

2. To erect a pointed thing, or with an acuminated point; applied chiefly to the ears, and primarily to the pointed ears of an animal. The horse pricks his ears, or pricks up his ears.

3. To fix by the point; as, to prick a knife into a board.

4. To hang on a point.

5. The cooks prick a slice on a prong of iron.

6. To designate by a puncture or mark.

7. Some who are pricked for sheriffs, and are fit, set out of the bill.

8. To spur; to goad; to incite; sometimes with on or off.

9. My duty pricks me on to utter that

10. Which no worldly good should draw from me.

11. But how if honor prick me off.

12. To affect with sharp pain; to sting with remorse.

13. When they heard this, they were pricked in their hearts. Acts 2:37 . Psalms 73:21 .

14. To make acid or pungent to the taste; as, wine is pricked.

15. To write a musical composition with the proper notes on a scale.

16. In seamen's language, to run a middle seam through the cloth of a sail.

17. To prick a chart, is to trace a ship's course on a chart.

Prick [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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.

3. To mark or denote by a puncture; to designate by pricking; to choose; to mark; -- sometimes with off.

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.

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

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.

9. To dress; to prink; -- usually with up.

10. To run a middle seam through, as the cloth of a sail.

11. To trace on a chart, as a ship's course.

12. To drive a nail into (a horse's foot), so as to cause lameness.

13. To nick.

Prick [Verb] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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

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.

4. A point or mark on the dial, noting the hour.

5. The point on a target at which an archer aims; the mark; the pin.

6. A mark denoting degree; degree; pitch.

7. A mathematical point; -- regularly used in old English translations of Euclid.

8. The footprint of a hare.

9. A small roll; as, a prick of spun yarn; a prick of tobacco.

Prick [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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.

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

4. To aim at a point or mark.

Prick-eared [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Having erect, pointed ears; -- said of certain dogs.

Pricked [Participle passive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Pierced with a sharp point; spurred; goaded; stung with pain; rendered acid or pungent; marked; designated.

Pricked [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Pricker [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. A sharp pointed instrument.

2. In colloquial use, a prickle.

3. A light horseman. [Not in use.]

Pricker [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. One who, or that which, pricks; a pointed instrument; a sharp point; a prickle.

2. One who spurs forward; a light horseman.

3. A priming wire; a priming needle, -- used in blasting and gunnery.

4. A small marline spike having generally a wooden handle, -- used in sailmaking.

Pricket [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

A buck in his second year.

Pricket [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A buck in his second year. See Note under 3d Buck.

Pricking [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

A sensation of sharp pain, or of being pricked.

Pricking [Participle present tense] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Piercing with a sharp point; goading; affecting with pungent pain; making or becoming acid.

Pricking [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. The act of piercing or puncturing with a sharp point.

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

3. Same as Nicking.

4. A sensation of being pricked.

5. The mark or trace left by a hare's foot; a prick; also, the act of tracing a hare by its footmarks.

6. Dressing one's self for show; prinking.

Pricking [Present participle and verbal noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Pricking-up [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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.

Prickle [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. In botany, a small pointed shoot or sharp process, growing from the bark only, and thus distinguished from the thorn, which grows from the wood of a plant. Thus the rose, the bramble, the gooseberry and the barberry are armed with prickles.

2. A sharp pointed process of an animal.

Prickle [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. 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.

2. A kind of willow basket; -- a term still used in some branches of trade.

3. A sieve of filberts, -- about fifty pounds.

Prickle [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

To prick slightly, as with prickles, or fine, sharp points.

Prickle-back [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

A small fish, so named from the prickles on its back; the stickle-back.

Prickleback [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Alt. of Pricklefish

Pricklefish [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

The stickleback.

Prickliness [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

The state of having many prickles.

Prickliness [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

The quality of being prickly, or of having many prickles.

Prickling [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Prickly.

Pricklouse [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

A low word in contempt for a taylor.

Pricklouse [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A tailor; -- so called in contempt.

Prickly [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Full of sharp points or prickles; armed with prickles; as a prickly shrub.

Prickly [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Full of sharp points or prickles; armed or covered with prickles; as, a prickly shrub.

Prickmadam [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

A species of house-leek.

Prickmadam [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A name given to several species of stonecrop, used as ingredients of vermifuge medicines. See Stonecrop.

Prickpunch [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

A piece of tempered steel with a round point, to prick a round mark on cold iron.

Prickpunch [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A pointed steel punch, to prick a mark on metal.

Prickshaft [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

An arrow.

Pricksong [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

A song set to music, or a variegated song; in distinction from a plain song.

Pricksong [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Music written, or noted, with dots or points; -- so called from the points or dots with which it is noted down.

Prickwood [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

A tree of the genus Euonymus.

Prickwood [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A shrub (Euonymus Europaeus); -- so named from the use of its wood for goads, skewers, and shoe pegs. Called also spindle tree.

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11 KJV and 1 BSB verses contain “Prick”

Numbers 33:55

But if ye will not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you; then it shall come to pass, that those which ye let remain of them shall be pricks in your eyes, and thorns in your sides, and shall vex you in the land wherein ye dwell.

But if you do not drive out the inhabitants of the land before you, those you allow to remain will become barbs in your eyes and thorns in your sides; they will harass you in the land where you settle.

Psalms 73:21

Thus my heart was grieved, and I was pricked in my reins.

When my heart was grieved and I was pierced within,

Ezekiel 28:24

And there shall be no more a pricking brier unto the house of Israel, nor any grieving thorn of all that are round about them, that despised them; and they shall know that I am the Lord GOD.

For the people of Israel will no longer face a pricking brier or a painful thorn from all around them who treat them with contempt. Then they will know that I am the Lord GOD.’

Acts 2:37

Now when they heard this, they were pricked in their heart, and said unto Peter and to the rest of the apostles, Men and brethren, what shall we do?

When the people heard this, they were cut to the heart and asked Peter and the other apostles, “Brothers, what shall we do?”

Acts 9:5

And he said, Who art thou, Lord? And the Lord said, I am Jesus whom thou persecutest: it is hard for thee to kick against the pricks.

“Who are You, Lord?” Saul asked. “I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting,” He replied.

Acts 26:14

And when we were all fallen to the earth, I heard a voice speaking unto me, and saying in the Hebrew tongue, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me? it is hard for thee to kick against the pricks.

We all fell to the ground, and I heard a voice say to me in Hebrew, ‘Saul, Saul, why do you persecute Me? It is hard for you to kick against the goads.’

Tobit 11:8

Therefore anoint thou his eyes with the gall, and being pricked therewith, he shall rub, and the whiteness shall fall away, and he shall see thee.

Wisdom of Solomon 16:11

For they were pricked, that they should remember thy words; and were quickly saved, that not falling into deep forgetfulness, they might be continually mindful of thy goodness.

Sirach 12:12

Set him not by thee, lest, when he hath overthrown thee, he stand up in thy place; neither let him sit at thy right hand, lest he seek to take thy seat, and thou at the last remember my words, and be pricked therewith.

Sirach 14:1

Blessed is the man that hath not slipped with his mouth, and is not pricked with the multitude of sins.

Sirach 22:19

He that pricketh the eye will make tears to fall: and he that pricketh the heart maketh it to shew her knowledge.