3  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Prick  \Prick\,  v.  t.  [imp.  &  p.  p.  {Pricked};  p.  pr  &  vb  n. 
  {Pricking}.]  [AS.  prician;  akin  to  LG  pricken,  D.  prikken 
  Dan.  prikke  Sw  pricka.  See  {Prick},  n.,  and  cf  {Prink}, 
  {Prig}.] 
  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.  --Sir  I.  Newton. 
 
  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.  --Cowper. 
 
  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.  ``I 
  was  pricked  with  some  reproof.''  --Tennyson. 
 
  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.  ``The  courser 
  .  .  .  pricks  up  his  ears.''  --Dryden. 
 
  8.  To  render  acid  or  pungent.  [Obs.]  --Hudibras. 
 
  9.  To  dress;  to  prink;  --  usually  with  up  [Obs.] 
 
  10.  (Naut) 
  a  To  run  a  middle  seam  through  as  the  cloth  of  a  sail. 
  b  To  trace  on  a  chart,  as  a  ship's  course. 
 
  11.  (Far.) 
  a  To  drive  a  nail  into  (a  horse's  foot),  so  as  to  cause 
  lameness. 
  b  To  nick. 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Pricking  \Prick"ing\,  n. 
  1.  The  act  of  piercing  or  puncturing  with  a  sharp  point. 
  ``There  is  that  speaketh  like  the  prickings  of  a  sword.'' 
  --Prov.  xii.  18  [1583]. 
 
  2.  (Far.) 
  a  The  driving  of  a  nail  into  a  horse's  foot  so  as  to 
  produce  lameness. 
  b  Same  as  {Nicking}. 
 
  3.  A  sensation  of  being  pricked.  --Shak. 
 
  4.  The  mark  or  trace  left  by  a  hare's  foot;  a  prick;  also 
  the  act  of  tracing  a  hare  by  its  footmarks.  [Obs.] 
 
  5.  Dressing  one's  self  for  show  prinking.  [Obs.] 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  pricking 
  n  :  the  act  of  puncturing  with  a  small  point 

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