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PrickPrick Prick, n. [AS. prica, pricca, pricu; akin to LG. prick,
pricke, D. prik, Dan. prik, prikke, Sw. prick. Cf. Prick,
v.]
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. ``The pricks
of conscience.' --A. Tucker.
3. A mark made by a pointed instrument; a puncture; a point.
Hence:
(a) A point or mark on the dial, noting the hour. [Obs.]
``The prick of noon.' --Shak.
(b) The point on a target at which an archer aims; the
mark; the pin. ``They that shooten nearest the
prick.' --Spenser.
(c) A mark denoting degree; degree; pitch. [Obs.] ``To
prick of highest praise forth to advance.' --Spenser.
(d) A mathematical point; -- regularly used in old English
translations of Euclid.
(e) The footprint of a hare. [Obs.]
4. (Naut.) A small roll; as, a prick of spun yarn; a prick of
tobacco. Prick
Prick Prick, v. i.
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. --Milton.
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. --Hawkins.
Meaning of Pricks from wikipedia
- (Melvins album) "
Prick", a song by
Something for Kate
Christof Prick, (born 1946),
German orchestra conductor Kicking Against the
Pricks, a Nick Cave and...
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common belief held that a
witch could be
discovered through the
process of
pricking their skin with needles, pins and bodkins –
daggerlike instruments for...
- ****ociation of
prick with
authority figures in his chapter, "The
Teacher as
Prick", but also
allows that
teachers can
refer to
students as "little
pricks". By the...
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Kicking Against the
Pricks is the
third studio album released by the
Australian rock band Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds.
First released in 1986, the album...
- The
neonatal heel
prick is a
blood collection procedure done on newborns. It
consists of
making a
pinprick puncture in one heel of the
newborn to collect...
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Lilly Wood and the
Prick (also
known simply as
Lilly Wood and LILLYWOOD) is a
French folk pop duo
composed of Nili
Hadida and
Benjamin Cotto. Nili was...
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Prick is the
debut album by
American industrial rock band,
Prick,
fronted by
Kevin Mc****n. It was
released on
January 25, 1995 via
Nothing Records, Nine...
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Prick was a free
monthly tabloid-sized magazine,
published in Atlanta, Georgia,
covering the
tattoo and
piercing industry. It also had
sections on music...
- In leathercraft, a
pricking iron is a
handheld tool
resembling a fork
which is used to
create dimples in
leather a
fixed distance apart that can then be...
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Prick is the
sixth studio album by the
Melvins which was
released in 1994
through Amphetamine Reptile Records under the name ƧИIV⅃ƎM. It has been said...
