English Dictionary

prick

/pɹɪk/

verb

(farriery) To drive a nail into (a horse's foot), so as to cause lameness. / (transitive, hunting) To shoot without killing. / (transitive) To form by piercing or puncturing.

He carefully pricked the horse's foot with a nail.

意味（1）

(farriery) To drive a nail into (a horse's foot), so as to cause lameness.

意味（2）

(transitive, hunting) To shoot without killing.

They had shot at old Tom, the hare, too, but he is still alive; at least I pricked him yesterday morn across the path into the turnip field.

意味（3）

(transitive) To form by piercing or puncturing.

to prick holes in paper

意味（4）

(obsolete) To mark or denote by a puncture; to designate by pricking; to choose; to mark.

Some who are pricked for sheriffs.

意味（5）

(transitive, chiefly nautical) To mark the surface of (something) with pricks or dots; especially, to trace a ship’s course on (a chart).

意味（6）

(nautical, obsolete) To run a middle seam through the cloth of a sail.

意味（7）

To fix by the point; to attach or hang by puncturing.

The cooks …prick it [a slice] on a prog of iron.

意味（8）

(intransitive, dated) To be punctured; to suffer or feel a sharp pain, as by puncture.

A sore finger pricks.

意味（9）

(transitive, intransitive) To make or become sharp; to erect into a point; to raise, as something pointed; said especially of the ears of an animal, such as a horse or dog; and usually followed by up.

The dog's ears pricked up at the sound of a whistle.

意味（10）

(horticulture) Usually in the form prick out: to plant (seeds or seedlings) in holes made in soil at regular intervals.

Seed should be sown thinly and evenly to enable seedlings to be pricked out without disturbing those that have just emerged. If there is space, seedlings should be pricked out individually, either into small pots or module trays.

意味（11）

(transitive) To incite, stimulate, goad.

My duty pricks me on to utter that.

意味（12）

(intransitive, archaic) To urge one's horse on; to ride quickly.

At last, as through an open plaine they yode,

At last, as through an open plaine they yode, They spide a knight that towards them pricked fayre ….

意味（13）

To affect with sharp pain; to sting, as with remorse.

Now when they heard this, they were pricked in their heart.

意味（14）

(transitive) To make acidic or pungent.

For then their late Attracts decline,

For then their late Attracts decline, And turn as eager as prick'd Wine

意味（15）

(intransitive) To become sharp or acid; to turn sour, as wine.

意味（16）

To aim at a point or mark.

This prayse belongeth to stronge shootinge and drawinge of mightye bowes, not to prickinge, and nere shootinge.

意味（17）

(obsolete, usually as prick up) to dress or adorn; to prink.