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

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.

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

To hang on a point. The cooks prick a slice on a prong of iron.

To designate by a puncture or mark. Some who are pricked for sheriffs, and are fit, set out of the bill.

To spur; to goad; to incite; sometimes with on or off. My duty pricks me on to utter that . Which no worldly good should draw from me. But how if honor prick me off.

To affect with sharp pain; to sting with remorse. When they heard this, they were pricked in their hearts. Acts 2:37; Psalm 73:21.

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

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

In seamen’s language, to run a middle seam through the cloth of a sail. To prick a chart, is to trace a ship’s course on a chart.

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

To dress one’s self for show.

To come upon the spur; to shoot along. Before each van . Prick forth the airy knights.

To aim at a point, mark or place.

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Aslender pointed instrument or substance, which is hard enough to pierce the skin; a goad; a spur. It is hard for thee to kick against the pricks. Acts 9:5.

Sharp stinging pain; remorse.

A spot or mark at which archers aim.

A point; a fixed place.

A puncture or place entered by a point.