"Prick" is a word in ENGLISH
To spur onward; to ride on horseback.
To nick.
That which pricks, penetrates, or punctures; a sharp and
slender thing; a pointed instrument; a goad; a spur, etc.; a point; a
skewer.
A point or mark on the dial, noting the hour.
A small roll; as, a prick of spun yarn; a prick of tobacco.
To ride or guide with spurs; to spur; to goad; to incite; to
urge on; -- sometimes with on, or off.
A mark denoting degree; degree; pitch.
The act of pricking, or the sensation of being pricked; a
sharp, stinging pain; figuratively, remorse.
To be punctured; to suffer or feel a sharp pain, as by
puncture; as, a sore finger pricks.
A mark made by a pointed instrument; a puncture; a point.
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.
To fix by the point; to attach or hang by puncturing; as, to
prick a knife into a board.
To mark or denote by a puncture; to designate by pricking;
to choose; to mark; -- sometimes with off.
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.
To aim at a point or mark.
To affect with sharp pain; to sting, as with remorse.
To render acid or pungent.
The footprint of a hare.
To trace on a chart, as a ship's course.
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.
A mathematical point; -- regularly used in old English
translations of Euclid.
To run a middle seam through, as the cloth of a sail.
To become sharp or acid; to turn sour, as wine.
To drive a nail into (a horse's foot), so as to cause
lameness.
The point on a target at which an archer aims; the mark; the
pin.
To dress; to prink; -- usually with up.
Kitai blinked slowly. "Why would you use the same word for these things? That is ridiculous.""We have a lot of words like that," Tavi said. "They can mean more than one thing.""That is stupid," Kitai said. "It is difficult enough to communicate without making it more complicated with words that mean more than one thing.
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Read the complete definitionNeedle-shaped, having a sharp, rigid point, as the leaf of the pine.
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Read the complete definitionThe top or highest point; the culmination.
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Read the complete definitionA cone-shaped piece of wood on the point of the spindle above the vane, on the mast-head.
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Read the complete definitionSharpened; sharp-pointed.
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