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pricking 刺伤 刺伤 pricking n 1: the act of puncturing with a small point; " he gave the balloon a small prick" [ synonym: { prick}, { pricking}] 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. [ 1913 Webster] 2. To fix by the point; to attach or hang by puncturing; as, to prick a knife into a board. -- Sir I. Newton. [ 1913 Webster] The cooks prick it [ a slice] on a prong of iron. -- Sandys. [ 1913 Webster] 3. To mark or denote by a puncture; to designate by pricking; to choose; to mark; -- sometimes with off. [ 1913 Webster] Some who are pricked for sheriffs. -- Bacon. [ 1913 Webster] Let the soldiers for duty be carefully pricked off. -- Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster] Those many, then, shall die: their names are pricked. -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] 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. [ 1913 Webster] 5. To ride or guide with spurs; to spur; to goad; to incite; to urge on; -- sometimes with on, or off. [ 1913 Webster] Who pricketh his blind horse over the fallows. -- Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster] The season pricketh every gentle heart. -- Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster] My duty pricks me on to utter that. -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] 6. To affect with sharp pain; to sting, as with remorse. " I was pricked with some reproof." -- Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster] Now when they heard this, they were pricked in their heart. -- Acts ii. 37. [ 1913 Webster] 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. [ 1913 Webster] 8. To render acid or pungent. [ Obs.] -- Hudibras. [ 1913 Webster] 9. To dress; to prink; -- usually with up. [ Obs.] [ 1913 Webster] 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. [ 1913 Webster] 11. ( Far.) ( a) To drive a nail into ( a horse' s foot), so as to cause lameness. ( b) To nick. [ 1913 Webster]
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]. [ 1913 Webster] 2. ( Far.) ( a) The driving of a nail into a horse' s foot so as to produce lameness. ( b) Same as { Nicking}. [ 1913 Webster] 3. A sensation of being pricked. -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] 4. The mark or trace left by a hare' s foot; a prick; also, the act of tracing a hare by its footmarks. [ Obs.] [ 1913 Webster] 5. Dressing one' s self for show; prinking. [ Obs.] [ 1913 Webster]
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