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Pricker
Pricker Prick"er, n. 1. One who, or that which, pricks; a pointed instrument; a sharp point; a prickle. 2. One who spurs forward; a light horseman. The prickers, who rode foremost, . . . halted. --Sir W. Scott. 3. A priming wire; a priming needle, -- used in blasting and gunnery. --Knight. 4. (Naut.) A small marline spike having generally a wooden handle, -- used in sailmaking. --R. H. Dana, Ir.
Pricket
Pricket Prick"et, n. [Perhaps so called from the state of his horns. See Prick, and cf. Brocket.] (Zo["o]l.) A buck in his second year. See Note under 3d Buck. --Shak.
Uppricked
Uppricked Up*pricked", a. Upraised; erect; -- said of the ears of an animal. --Mason.

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- Robert Pricke (fl. 1669 – 1698) was an English engraver. Pricke was a pupil of Wenceslaus Hollar, and kept a shop for prints and maps in Whitecross Street...
- thought to have been constructed around 1410–1420. Richard Morris, ed., The 'Pricke of Conscience' ('Stimulus Conscientiae'), A Northumbrian Poem by Richard...
- ("unquietness") rather than "thorn", and the 1557 Geneva Bible refers to a "pricke in the fleshe". Paul mentions what the "thorn in his flesh" was in 2 Corinthians...
- ('nature's theater' 1560–1590). Another botanist, John Gerard called it the "pricke mushroom" or "fungus virilis **** effigie" in his General Historie of Plants...
- but with very similar antecedents include: in the twinclinge of an eye Pricke of Conscience c.1340: In þe space of a twynkellyng of ane eghe. my brother's...
- several publications by his fellow puritans, including Richard Rogers, Robert Pricke, Baine, and Nicholas Byfield. Francis J. Bremer, Tom Webster, Puritans and...
- puritan in sympathy, she lived down to 1593. Her minister there was Robert Pricke, alias Oldmayne, whose family name was apparently changed to evade ****cution...
- which has been burnt. In Cott. App. vii. a version of Richard Rolle's ‘Pricke of Conscience’ is ascribed in a later hand to Asheburne. It is preceded...
- thought to be Rolle's: While the most po****r poem in Middle English, The Pricke of Conscience, was once attributed to him, it is now known to have been...
- solicitor. For the defence, Mr Hunt was counsel for Jefferson, Wyebrow, Harley, Pricke, Cooper, Freeman and Jessop; Mr Hart was counsel for John Easey, Joseph...